OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two recent deaths in Oklahoma are believed to be the result of counterfeit oxycodone, according to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Foresters in Texas and Oklahoma say portions of the states face significant wildfire threats due to high temperatures, low humidity and gusty winds.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican former state senator accused of grabbing a female Uber driver and kissing her on the neck while she drove him to a bar in Oklahoma City has pleaded guilty to...

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake has been recorded in northwestern Oklahoma.

The U.S.G.S. recorded the magnitude 3.1 quake at 12:09 a.m. Saturday about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Woodward and about 97 miles (156 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City.

No injuries or damage are reported. Geologists say damage isn't likely in temblors below magnitude 4.0.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican former state senator has waived his preliminary hearing on a charge of grabbing a female Uber driver and kissing her on the neck while she drove him to a bar in Oklahoma City.

Court records show Bryce Marlatt of Woodward on Friday waived the hearing in which a judge was to decide if there is enough evidence to try him on a charge of sexual battery.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper is recovering from his injuries after he was shot during a traffic stop early Sunday.

Highway Patrol Cpl. Mike Harrell says Trooper Austin Ellis is in good condition at an Oklahoma City hospital after the shooting. Harrell said Monday that the trooper's vest stopped the bullet but that Ellis suffered a fractured rib and some internal bleeding.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a trooper has been injured following an early-morning shootout with a suspect who has been taken into custody.

Highway Patrol Capt. Stan Walker says Trooper Austin Ellis was "doing fine" at an Oklahoma City hospital following Sunday's shooting. Officials say the trooper's vest stopped the bullet but he may have suffered a possible broken rib.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Oil production continues to expand throughout Oklahoma, including in areas outside the state's two core fields.

The STACK and SCOOP fields are dominated by larger, independent oil companies that include Continental Resources Inc., Devon Energy Corp. and Newfield Exploration, the Oklahoman reported.

FORT SUPPLY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 22-year-old Woodward man has drowned in northwestern Oklahoma.

The OHP says Adam Flores drowned Wednesday afternoon in Fort Supply Lake.

An OHP report says Flores had anchored a boat near an island in the lake and was wading in waist deep water when he stepped into a deep area and disappeared beneath the water.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say an Oklahoma woman has been arrested in the death of a man who was run over by a pickup truck.

They say Kelly R. Hardy is accused of voluntary manslaughter.

She was booked into jail in Woodward, Oklahoma before being extradited to New Mexico's McKinley County.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Forestry Services says widespread rainfall that soaked portions of western Oklahoma has helped firefighters contain two major wildfires that have charred about 549 square miles (1,422 sq. kilometers).

Spokeswoman Jeannette Dreadfulwater said Sunday that the 34 Complex fire in Woodward County is about 85 percent contained. She says the fire has charred 98 square miles (254 sq. kilometers) in Woodward and Harper counties since it started on April 12.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Forestry Services officials are warning of an extreme fire danger in western Oklahoma.

Fire staff officer Drew Daily says warm temperatures and low humidity are expected to create very strong burning conditions on Thursday and Friday.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — She's the first woman since Woodward was established to be promoted into the detective division of the Woodward Police Department.

That is a distinction that has not been lost on local residents, many who have made a point to step out, when they first saw Det. Jennifer Miller patrolling in Woodward, to meet her and tell her how pleased they were to once again have a woman police officer.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Plans are underway for another major wind project in northwest Oklahoma.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners announced Tuesday that it's entered a joint venture with Elawan Wind to build a wind farm known as the Persimmon project. The Oklahoman reports that the project will involve 80 turbines spread across parts of Woodward, Dewey and Ellis counties.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Four earthquakes, including a magnitude 4.0 temblor, have rattled areas of northern and western Oklahoma.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquakes were recorded Tuesday morning in Garfield, Woodward and Grady counties.

Geologists say the 4.0 magnitude quake was recorded at 5:26 a.m. about 18 miles (29 kilometers) east-northeast of Mooreland in Woodward County. It was recorded at a depth of 3 miles.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — A current state representative has won the Republican nomination for a state Senate seat representing northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle.

With all precincts reporting in Tuesday's special election, state Rep. Casey Murdock topped the six-candidate field in a winner-take-all GOP primary. He'll go on to face Democrat Amber Jensen in a Feb. 13 special election.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Her story wasn't so much about the calf that was saved, but the tree that was lost.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S Geological Survey reports three small earthquakes in Oklahoma.

The two largest quakes each have a preliminary magnitude of 3.1. The first was recorded at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday near Woodward, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. The second struck at 10:17 a.m. Wednesday near Enid, 56 miles (90 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City.

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a man was killed when he fell from the top of a moving train and was run over in northwestern Oklahoma.

An OHP report says 43-year-old David Duane McCullum of Woodward was dead at the scene of the accident Sunday afternoon.

The report says McCullum was walking on top of the Union Pacific train at the Chisholm Trail Terminal when he fell between two cars and was struck.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy trying to speed away from police in western Oklahoma on Wednesday hit a curb and flipped the car, killing two girls and injuring one of two boys who were with him, authorities said.

The two girls, ages 12 and 13, were from Woodward, which is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City and the site of the 1 a.m. crash. Authorities haven't released their names.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hundreds of utility customers are without power across Oklahoma following severe storms that brought strong winds and torrential rain to the state.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. says more than 1,200 customers were without power early Sunday including more than 500 in Woodward in northwestern Oklahoma and 400 in Ringling in the southern part of the state.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Xcel Energy has started construction in New Mexico on a 345-kilovolt transmission line meant to hook up with electric distribution operations in Texas.

Formal groundbreaking ceremonies were held Tuesday near Hobbs, New Mexico, as part of the $400 million project. Officials say the line should be in service in 2018 and could eventually connect with a substation north of Abernathy, Texas, pending regulatory approval.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry has sent seven wildland firefighters to Woodward, Oklahoma, to fight wildfires there.

Commissioner Mike Strain said Tuesday that they'll be in Oklahoma for about three weeks.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Forestry officials say a dozen firefighters from Kentucky are in Oklahoma to help battle wildfires there.

WKYT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2lObIli ) that while Kentucky is experiencing a below average number of fires so far, some of its firefighters are staying busy.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says damage from a wildfire that scorched hundreds of square miles in northwestern Oklahoma is "unprecedented."

Oklahoma's senior U.S. senator and fellow U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma spoke to farmers and ranchers in Woodward Friday after visiting some of the fire-damaged areas.

FORGAN, Okla. (AP) — Numerous wildfires are burning in Oklahoma and evacuations have been ordered in the state's northwest.

Woodward County Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer (LEE'-en-bower) says up to 200 people had to leave their homes late Monday afternoon in Woodward County and Beaver County officials told residents of Gate, a town of about 90 people, to leave their homes. Evacuations were also ordered near Laverne and Buffalo in Harper County.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — It was just a statement made between two brothers.

About a year and two months ago Chris and Donald Hobbs were spending time together in the way brothers do, working quietly shoulder to shoulder, breathing the same air, drinking the same brand of beer.

"It was Christmas before last and I was building gun cabinets out of cedar and he saw what I was doing and said, 'I like this. When I die just build me a casket out of this,'" said Chris Hobbs of Woodward.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A winter storm that brought sleet and freezing rain to parts of the central U.S. has left nearly 10,000 electric customers without power across Oklahoma, with most of those in northwestern Oklahoma.

Woodward County Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer said Sunday that Woodward County is likely the hardest hit and that thousands of residents are without electricity.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Native American tribe's plan to build a $25 million casino in the Oklahoma Panhandle hundreds of miles from the tribe's headquarters has prompted a state senator to question whether tribal gambling should be allowed in areas that have no historical tribal connections.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Officials say wheat crops in Oklahoma are struggling due to drought.

Dana Bay with the Woodward County OSU Extension Service Horticulture and Landscape said the county region and surrounding areas have received less than a half an inch of precipitation in the last 30 days.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — A Woodward man has been killed in a pickup truck crash in western Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 34-year-old Brian Lee Johnston died in the crash near Woodward on Tuesday.

An OHP report says Johnston was driving eastbound on a county road when he ran a stop sign and the truck went off the roadway, struck an embankment and rolled.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake has shaken parts of northwestern Oklahoma.

Geologists say the 3.2 magnitude quake was recorded at 6:50 a.m. Friday about 9 miles east-northeast of Mooreland in Woodward County. The quake was recorded at a depth of less than 2 miles.

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a 71-year-old man died after falling from his boat while fishing on Lake Elmer Thomas in southwest Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Jay Woodward of Indiahoma was fishing with another person Sunday afternoon in Comanche County when he fell out of the boat "because of an unknown medical condition."

The highway patrol says a passenger in the boat brought Woodward to the shore and attempted CPR, but Woodward did not survive.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says two Nebraskans were killed in a single-vehicle crash in northwestern Oklahoma.

The OHP says 27-year-old Javier Salas Adame of Crete and 23-year-old Mariano Torrero Ortiz of Lincoln died Saturday in the crash on Highway 34 north of Woodward.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says two Nebraskans were killed in a single-vehicle crash in northwestern Oklahoma.

The OHP says 27-year-old Javier Salas Adame of Crete and 23-year-old Mariano Torrero Ortiz of Lincoln died Saturday in the crash on Highway 34 north of Woodward.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Two people have died in a multi-vehicle auto crash in Woodward County.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the accident happened early Saturday on State Highway 15 as 67-year-old Woodward resident Phillip Oliver was driving his pickup on a county road.

The patrol said Oliver failed to stop at a stop sign, causing his pickup to strike a truck that was pulling a horse trailer, causing the trailer to separate from the truck.