Helmerich & Payne 4th-quarter profit falls on decline in domestic drilling market
Helmerich & Payne 4Q profit falls TULSA, Okla. — Contract driller Helmerich & Payne Inc. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 59 percent due primarily to a drop in the U.S. land drilling market. Newly elected Tulsa City Councilor robbed of wallet at election watch party
Newly elected councilor robbed at watch party Williams Cos. says 26.4-mile natural gas transmission pipeline in Colorado now in service
Williams Cos.: Gas transmission pipeline in use Arkansas school bus plant to stop making vehicles; up to 477 jobs affected
Ark. plant to end bus making; 477 jobs affected Holly Corp. 3rd-qtr profit falls 53 percent as refinery margins, gas prices drop
Holly Corp. posts 53 percent drop in 3Q profit Judge: Widow of Okla. Cintas worker has chance to prove why evidence should be unsealed
Judge gives Cintas widow chance to prove case Magellan Midstream 3rd-qtr profit tumbles 22 pct on commodity price weakness
Magellan Midstream 3Q profit tumbles 22 pct American Airlines will close Kansas City, Mo., maintenance base and others, cut 700 jobs
American Airlines will close Kansas City base American Airlines will close Kansas City, Mo., maintenance base
American Airlines will close KC base DALLAS — American Airlines will close a maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo., and shrink other repair shops next September as the slump in travel leaves fewer planes to maintain. Group decides against eliminating Kan. transmission line as priority, wants more study
Kansas transmission line project back in mix Poultry companies: Okla. agency had years to go to court over water quality issues and didn’tTULSA, Okla. — Arkansas poultry companies claimed Wednesday that an Oklahoma agency could have gone to court long ago to enforce water quality standards in a sensitive watershed, but failed to do so until 2005, when it filed a federal lawsuit blaming the companies for pollution there. Widow of Cintas worker who fell in dryer wants evidence unsealed in her suit against companyTULSA, Okla. — The widow of a Cintas Corp. worker who fell into an industrial dryer and died in 2007 wants a federal judge to unseal for public viewing more than 90 percent of the evidence in her lawsuit against the nation’s largest uniform supplier. 91-year-old evangelist Oral Roberts returns to campus to help inaugurate ORU’s 3rd presidentTULSA, Okla. — Oral Roberts University has inaugurated the third president in the Oklahoma school’s history. APNewsBreak: Once tens of millions of dollars in debt, Oral Roberts says it’s now debt-freeTULSA, Okla. — Oral Roberts University, which was once tens of millions of dollars in the red after a financial scandal tarnished the Tulsa evangelical school, is finally debt-free, school officials said Wednesday. APNewsBreak: Once tens of millions in the red, Oral Roberts Univ. to announce it’s debt-freeTULSA, Okla. — Oral Roberts University is set to announce that the Tulsa evangelical school is finally debt-free after being tens of millions of dollars in the red. Ram Energy receives letter from Nasdaq for failing to maintain listing requirementsTULSA, Okla. — Oil and gas company Ram Energy Resources Inc. said Monday it received a notification letter from the Nasdaq Stock Market for failing to maintain listing requirements. Tulsa teen alleges Abercrombie & Fitch store did not hire her because of religious head scarfOKLAHOMA CITY — A Muslim teenager claims in a federal lawsuit that she was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store at a Tulsa mall because she wore a head scarf. Many moved by Obama’s soaring rhetoric on health reform, but others await more detailsWhile some were moved to tears by the president’s soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others. 5 dead after Texas-bound plane crashes in Okla. park in heavy fog, likely hit tower guide wireOKLAHOMA CITY — A small aircraft plummeted into an Oklahoma park and burst into flames on Saturday after hitting a guide wire from a communications tower, killing all five people on board, investigators said. AP IMPACT: New formula lets meth users make drug in soda bottles, avoid anti-drug lawsTULSA, Okla. — This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world’s most addictive drugs. Dollar Thrift second quarter profit jumps 15 pct, rental sales slip on low demandTULSA, Okla. — Rental car company Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. on Tuesday posted a 15 percent increase in its second-quarter results, but saw rental sales slip as fewer consumers traveled. Judge: Okla. can’t pursue damages against Ark. poultry firms in pollution lawsuitTULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma can’t pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn’t name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major blow to the state. Giddy, up: Rodeos bucking recession woes as staycationers flock to ‘greatest show on dirt’MESQUITE, Texas — A few steps into the air-conditioned Mesquite Rodeo is all it takes to feel the relief. Okla. congressman returning to DC after treatment for alcohol addiction, will seek re-electionOKLAHOMA CITY — U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, who is returning to Washington after a 30-day stay in a treatment center for alcohol addiction, said Monday he plans to work harder than ever and will seek re-election next year. Continental flight from Houston to Omaha makes emergency landing in Tulsa, Okla.TULSA, Okla. — A spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines says a Continental Express jet with 53 people on board has made an emergency landing in Oklahoma. Republican Coburn of Okla. says he’ll run for second term in the US Senate in 2010TULSA, Okla. — Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who has built a reputation as an anti-earmarks crusader, said Monday he will run for a second term next year. Okla. police arrest would-be burglar after he returns to the scene of the crime with more toolsTULSA, Okla. — Police said officers arrested a would-be burglar when he returned to the scene of the crime after failing the first time to get in. Police said officers were called about 8:30 p.m. Sunday to the pharmacy of a medical center where witnesses said someone had tried to break in — but had left. Arena Resources 1st-qtr profit drops 65 percent as commodity prices plummetTULSA, Okla. — Arena Resources Inc., an oil and natural gas exploration company, said Friday its first-quarter profit sank 65 percent as commodity prices plummeted. Williams Cos. CEO’s compensation rises 10 percent to $8.9 million in 2008TULSA, Okla. — The chief executive of natural gas provider Williams Cos. earned 10 percent more in 2008 than the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of a filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Men find abandoned safe thought to be century old, rusted shut with locks broken offTULSA, Okla. — Two men said they’ve found an abandoned safe by the side of some railroad tracks and that it could be more than a century old. Bill Dodd, one of the men who found the safe about a month and a half ago, says it weighs about 4,000 pounds. It’s now on display at an east Tulsa sign company while the men decide what to do with it. |