Metro-area robotics teams get startup grants 4 hr ago | Add a comment Six metro-area high schools received state Education Department grants to start robotics teams at their schools. Officials granted $5,000 or $3,600 to ASTEC Charter, Capitol Hill, Edmond Memorial,...

AT A GLANCE Tue, Nov 25, 2008 | Add a comment The U.S., Britain and many other Western countries accuse Iran of using its nuclear program as a cover for weapons development — a claim denied by Tehran, which is under U.N. sanctions over...

Insect-like robotic spy could join war effort Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Add a comment DAYTON, Ohio — If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record video and even fire tiny weapons? That kind of James...

Hard sell: Detroit links bailout, national defense Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Add a comment WASHINGTON - In an increasingly anxious campaign for a $25 billion government rescue, Detroit's Big Three car makers and their allies in Washington are warning the demise of the auto industry will...

Cellular chaperone offered for children Tue, Jun 13, 2006 Attention parents: Do you know where your children are? Beginning Monday, Verizon Wireless subscribers can know exactly where their children are at any moment. The company said it has launched a...

President sends BRAC report to Congress Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON -- President Bush announced Thursday that he has accepted the report of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which calls for strengthening some of Oklahoma's active duty...

BRAC commission votes to move accounting positions from Fort Sill Thu, May 18, 2006 Fort Sill, which will gain an estimated 3,600 military and civilian jobs in the latest round of military consolidations, suffered a setback Thursday when the Base Closure and Realignment Commission...

Fort Bliss training unit would move to Lawton, bringing about 3,500 jobs Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON The base-closure commission voted unanimously Wednesday that Fort Sill should get the Air Defense Artillery school now in Texas, a move that would transfer thousands of military...

Officials debate relocation plan Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - Oklahoma and Texas officials offered competing opinions Monday to the base closure commission on whether Fort Sill could accommodate thousands of new troops and air defense artillery...

At home on the range? Thu, May 18, 2006 FORT BLISS, Texas Three U.S. Marines stand side-byside, silhouetted against a domed movie screen of a landscape that looks eerily similar to those found in Iraq or Afghanistan. Each shoulders a...

Businesses near Fort Bliss leery of proposed changes Thu, May 18, 2006 EL PASO, Texas - Blanca Arevalo doesn't need to spend much time calculating the importance of the U.S. Army's Air Defense Artillery School to her dry cleaning shop. At home on the range?...

State contingent to attend hearing Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - A contingent of Oklahomans is scheduled to speak Monday at a base realignment and closure commission hearing in San Antonio, where some Texans might argue against the Pentagon...

Fort Sill scenario ominous Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - Last month, the Lawton area celebrated the Defense Department's recommendation to give Fort Sill a major training mission from another fort, along with more than 3,600 jobs. But just...

State bases were safe in talks Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - Defense Department officials who developed the base closure recommendations briefly considered closing the huge repair depot at Tinker Air Force Base, but quickly decided such a move...

Military building boom expected Thu, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - More than $350 million in construction would be necessary to accommodate the changes on Oklahoma military bases and in some communities as part of the Pentagon's base realignment and...