Oklahoma must take drastic steps to improve its dismal ranking in the number of residents who have no health insurance, state Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said Thursday during her agency’s Summit on the High Cost of Health Insurance. Barring a law requiring the purchase of health insurance, which Holland concedes would be a political long shot, "inducements” that penalize those who fail to insure themselves would help, she said.

Among the possible inducements Holland proposed was forfeiture of football season tickets to University of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State University games, forfeiture of lottery or gaming winnings, loss of state income tax deductions or licenses to
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NORMAN - Authorities arrested a man in Norman today in connection with the stabbing death of his mother last year. Norman police helped OSBI agents take 26-year-old Lee Purser into custody about 5 p.m. at an eastside apartment complex. Purser is suspected in the fatal stabbing of Pamela Purser, who was found dead inside her Lone Grove home on June 17, 2007. Brown says Pamela Purser was killed in front of her 2-year-old grandchild, who wasn't injured. She says Pamela Purser had custody of the toddler. Brown said the OSBI recently got back evidence from a laboratory that directly pointed to Lee Purser as the assailant, but she declined to specify what the evidence is. Lee Purser was transported to the Carter County jail in Ardmore.
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have chosen Sidwell Friends School for their two daughters, opting for a private institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago.

"A number of great schools were considered," said Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama. "In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now."

She said Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, "bring with them a number of security and privacy concerns that come with being part of the new first family ? and the school they've selected is positioned to appropriately accommodate that.
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Tulsa homicide detectives make an arrest in the city's latest murder. Officers actually found their suspect already sitting in a jail cell.

Nearly 90,000 tickets are issued in the City of Tulsa every year. Sixty-three thousand of those folks don't have to show up for court, but many don't realize it.

A high-speed chase down the Turner Turnpike kept the Oklahoma Highway Patrol busy Friday afternoon.

Each year, long lines of people rely on the John 3:16 Mission for Thanksgiving baskets.

Analysts say Oklahoma is immune from the national economic troubles, mostly because of our strong oil and gas industry.