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Scott Neil Helling, 49, threatened the lives of Gov. Mary Fallin's child and several law enforcement officials in an email to a television station.

A warrant sweep was all over Twitter on Wednesday. The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office has one of the largest followings in the country for a sheriff's department

The home of University of Oklahoma football head coach Bob Stoops was burglarized early Wednesday while the family slept, police said.

About 9:30 p.m., officers were called to a home on Craig Boulevard in the Westboro housing addition of Edmond after a 15-year-old girl reported someone was trying to break into the back of the house, police spokeswoman Jennifer Monroe said.

Police say the man shot at police with a rifle. Officers had arrived at the scene of a reported disturbance between two neighbors in northeast Oklahoma City on Wednesday, officials said.

Sammie Wallace died of a gunshot wound to the head, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office. Midwest City police Wednesday identified the officer who shot Wallace as 22-year police department member Capt. David Huff, a commander of the department's investigations unit.

Management at David's Sport Center, 6301 NW 10, are still debating if they will sell the boards because each one comes with a nearly $6,000 price tag. They also are wary of stocking the boards because the technology is relatively new. If the store does decide to carry the boards, it would be the first Flyboard retailer in Oklahoma.

A Jenks teenager will be treated a “youthful offender” and not as an adult on a murder charge linked to a woman's fatal shooting in Jenks.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked the mercurial Karzai and infuriated many other Afghans was a move by the Taliban to cast their new office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as a rival embassy. The Taliban held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday in which they hoisted their flag and a banner with the name they used while in power more than a decade ago: "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." U.S.

An accident on eastbound Interstate 240 near Shields Boulevard was reported. The vehicles involved were a tractor-trailer and a motorcycle, trooper Betsy Randolph said.

The NHL's Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars will face off in Oklahoma City for a 2013-14 preseason game. The game, announced Wednesday by the Oklahoma City Barons, will be Sept. 27 inside the Cox Convention Center. Oklahoma City opens its 38-game AHL home schedule with a weekend set of games October 4 and 5. In addition to the home opener, the Barons are scheduled to play at home Nov. 12, 15 and 16 and Dec. 20 and 21. The Barons annual Education Field Trip Day will be Nov. 12. Tickets for the Oilers vs. Stars, which is being called the NHL Showcase presented by Mercy, are included in all Barons full-season seat holder packages and will be available to partial plan holders and group leaders in the near future.

A fatality has been reported on Interstate 40 in south Oklahoma City. The eastbound lanes of I-40 at Shields Boulevard are open again after being closed for more than an hour.

Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says now is not the time to reduce the country's nuclear arms forces around the globe.

MOORE — More than 56,000 tons of debris has been removed from neighborhoods in Moore as the city reaches the one-month mark since a deadly tornado carved through the Oklahoma City suburb on May 20.

Firefighters have responded to a crash involving four vehicles on Interstate 44 Wednesday. The crash is near NW 23

LAWTON — A jury has recommended a death sentence for an Oklahoma man convicted in the 2009 killings of a Comanche County couple.

Oklahoma City's tap water has come in first place in a national taste test competition.

A sunny day is ahead Wednesday in central Oklahoma. Winds will gust up to 21 mph

Helen Kasony, 64, was last seen about 9:10 a.m. at the Walmart in Mena, Ark., on June 11, police said.

A Cleveland County jury deliberated about four hours Tuesday before finding an Oklahoma City man guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of an Oklahoma City woman.