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Debate surrounds annual $60M cost of 9/11 memorial
A debate over balancing the need to honor the memory of Sept. 11 with the enormous costs of running a memorial and museum at ground zero has been ...
Injured Tulane player still stable after surgery
It's still too early to know the long-term effects of the Tulane safety's spinal injury, the school's athletic director said Monday. Devon Walker was ...
Big 12 teams embracing run game, at least for now
Big 12 teams are piling up crazy stats again, just like they do every September. The difference this year? The numbers are not all through the air.
Arkansas plunges in AP Top25; K-State surges
Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 2 of the regular season. ___ MAKING A STATEMENT Arkansas took the plunge. The Razorbacks went ...
Family, truck driver die in storms in NE Oklahoma
Fierce thunderstorms with strong winds tore through Oklahoma, killing a truck driver and a family whose mobile home was flipped into a creek.
RB Williams makes quick impact for No. 5 Oklahoma
When Oklahoma experienced a mini-exodus at the running back position last year, the search for reinforcements began. One game into this season, the ...
Tide makes a statement; Buckeyes get Urban bump
Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 1 of the regular season. ___ MAKING A STATEMENT After a close preseason vote left Southern ...
Forget Marcus Welby: Today's docs want a real life
Don't call today's young doctors slackers. True, they may shun a 24/7 on-call solo practice and try to have a life outside of work. Yet they say ...
Top 25 Roundup
Braxton Miller helped make Urban Meyer's first game as Ohio State coach a record-breaking romp for the Buckeyes. Meanwhile, the new era at Penn State ...
No. 19 Oklahoma State wins opener in 84-0 rout
Even the biggest — and richest — Oklahoma State fan couldn't get overly excited about this victory. Before the 19th-ranked Cowboys kicked off their ...
Flake wins Arizona GOP nomination for US Senate
Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake defeated wealthy businessman Wil Cardon on Tuesday in an unexpectedly feisty Republican U.S. Senate primary race marked by ...
Guide to the 2012 college football season
College football is in for some big and, some say, much-needed changes with the switch to a four-team playoff. Before we get to that, there's still ...
Last chance for Oklahoma QB Jones to pursue title
Landry Jones has made his mark as the most prolific passer in Oklahoma history. He has won a Big 12 championship and three bowl games, including one ...
Cowboys have guidelines in place for Dez Bryant
The Dallas Cowboys are trying to provide some guidance for Dez Bryant, the talented young receiver who has had issues off the field. Coach Jason ...
Former Oklahoma St. player's sentencing delayed
Supporters of an Oklahoma State basketball player convicted of sexually assaulting two women at a party say he's a victim of misidentification in a ...
2nd man charged in 'Cathouse' slaying in Oklahoma
Oklahoma prosecutors on Thursday charged a second man with killing a prostitute featured on HBO'S "Cathouse series" and three other people.
Ibaka's new deal with Thunder reportedly for $48M
The Oklahoma City Thunder took a big step toward sticking around as an NBA championship contender. The Thunder and general manager Sam Presti still ...
Sooners suspend DT Stacy McGee indefinitely
Oklahoma defensive tackle Stacy McGee was suspended indefinitely Friday for what coach Bob Stoops called a violation of university policy. McGee is ...
Ryan's wife comes from storied Okla. Dem. family
Like her husband, Janna Ryan, the wife of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, is a Washington veteran after years working as a ...
Sooners suddenly overshadowed in their own state
Before last season, Bob Stoops proclaimed that it was about time for the Sooners to win another national championship. When it was all done, the ...
Oil boom brings scarcity of workers in small towns
The local prison is so short on guards that inmates can sometimes just walk away. A gas station barely has enough cashiers to keep up with the trucks ...
Wildfires leave 1 dead, dozens homeless in Okla.
The fields around Connie Laxton's home in Oklahoma were black with ash Monday after a roaring wildfire tore across her property and ran right up to ...
Oklahoma wildfires unpredictable in destruction
The fields around Connie Laxton's home in Oklahoma were black with ash Monday after a roaring wildfire tore across her property and ran right up to ...
Some return to shelters as Oklahoma wildfires burn
Some Oklahoma residents have returned to emergency shelters despite evacuation orders in many areas of the state being lifted, as wildfires continued ...
Many wildfire evacuation orders lifted in Oklahoma
Many Oklahoma residents forced to leave their homes because of raging wildfires were allowed to return Sunday, despite some blazes continuing to burn ...