Oklahoma

Three teen burglary suspects were shot and killed Monday by a homeowner’s son armed with an assault rifle in Oklahoma — which has a “stand your ground” law — and the alleged getaway driver in the case was arrested on felony murder and other charges, authorities said.

This animation shows every recorded earthquake in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2015, at a rate of 30 days per second. The earthquake hypocenters first appear as flashes then remain as colored circles before shrinking with time so as not to obscure subsequent earthquakes.

Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers on Dec. 7 whose backgrounds suggest he's primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Astronomers have spotted a distant world that orbits far beyond Pluto, in the extreme reaches of the Solar System.
The object, known informally as L91, may be in the process of gradually shifting its way inward from the Oort cloud — a reservoir of comets and other icy bodies — into the equally icy Kuiper belt. No object has ever been seen doing this.

Oil rose more than 1 percent to four-month highs on Oct. 6, spurred by another informal Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting on output cuts and plunging U.S. crude inventories, with some saying the market has overshot itself with a near 15-percent gain in seven sessions.

Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Sept. 22 after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of an African-American man. 

The latest round of athletes' protests during the playing of the American national anthem came Sept. 21 against the backdrop of recent fatal shootings of African-American men by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

A 43 year-old woman and her 25-year old daughter were put in prison in Oklahoma, after it was discovered they had married each other! The US Department of Human Services (DHS) informed the local police department of in Duncan that the two were involved in an incestuous relationship last year.

The legal definitions of rape in different US states vary. But the interpretation, and subsequent ruling on a case in Oklahoma given to forced oral sex by a court is off the charts. According to the decision by the state’s criminal appeals court it does not constitute rape if victim has oral sex with the offender while the prior is completely unconscious due to alcohol intoxication!

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations  on March 1 with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting.

On Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of nominating contests, Trump, 69, and Clinton, 68, proved themselves the undisputed front-runners.