(NATIONAL) Have you paid for funeral services for someone who lost their life to COVID-19? Starting Monday, the federal government is stepping in to cover the cost. COVID-19 Funeral Assistance is made possible under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. According to the FEMA website, assistance is limited to a m…

(TULSA, Okla.) A shallow front will likely hang up in the terrain to some degree Monday with another warm afternoon to the south, and temperatures notably cooler across northeast Oklahoma and far northwest Arkansas. Guidance remains consistent in breaking out convection in the elevated frontal zone perhaps as early as late Monday afternoon, with more robust development possible Monday evening as …

(MCCLAIN COUNTY, Okla.) It will if Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has anything to do with it. The McGirt ruling has upset jurisdictional procedure in Oklahoma since last July, when the Supreme Court ruled the state had no jurisdiction to prosecute American Indian defendants for crimes committed on tribal land, because Congress had never disestablished the tribes’ reservations. But …

(LANSING, Mich.) Governor Gretchen Whitmer Friday as Michigan has been experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases and increase of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. Whitmer says that by the end of Friday, Michigan will have administered more than five million vaccines. She also said she's asking the federal government to send more vaccines to Michigan as cases surge. “Administering more than…