BRISTOL, Connecticut, May 21 -- ESPN, a sports media company, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: The Road to the Women's College World Series continues Thursday, May 23, as ESPN platforms carry every pitch of the 2024 NCAA DI Softball Super Regionals with eight teams looking to punch their ticket to Oklahoma City. Every game will be available across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU over the course of the weekend and all games will be simulcast on ESPN+. ESPN is set to provide comprehensi  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, May 20 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Two professors within Oklahoma State University's College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology are set to embark on a research project aimed at creating training materials for workplace safety by way of utilizing virtual reality as a training simulator. Dr. Diana Rodriguez Coca Dr. Diana Rodriguez Coca, an assistant professor of fire protection and safety engineering technology, and Dr. Leslie  more

ADA, Oklahoma, May 21 -- The Chickasaw Nation, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: The Chickasaw Nation Election Commission announces filing period for the 2024 General Elections opens Monday, June 3 and continues through Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Candidates must contact the election secretary's office at (580) 310-6475 for more information and schedule an appointment. The election secretary office is located in the government service  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 21 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Two days after the Biden Administration sent a letter threatening to sue Oklahoma over its new immigration reform law, Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued a sharply worded response vowing to defend the law. In a May 15 letter to Gov. Stitt and AG Drummond, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) threatened to challenge House Bill 4156 unless Oklahoma agrees not to enforce it, cla  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 21 -- The Oklahoma House issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, today responded to a letter sent by the Biden Administration last week regarding House Bill 4156 which creates the crime of impermissible occupation in Oklahoma. The letter was sent to Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond by the Biden Dept. of Justice, and threatened legal action if the law is enforced. "The Biden Administration's continued  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, May 20 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: More than 4,600 athletes traveled to Stillwater last week to attend the country's largest Special Olympics Summer Games. This year marked the 39th Summer Games hosted at Oklahoma State University with the City of Stillwater and the 55th anniversary of the annual event in Oklahoma. In 2022, OSU increased opportunities for participation in Special Olympic events by developing the first Special Olympi  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, May 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: A new study conducted by the Wilhelm Lab at the University of Oklahoma examines a promising development in biomedical nanoengineering. Published in Advanced Materials, the study explores new findings on the transportation of cancer nanomedicines into solid tumors. A frequent misconception about many malignant solid tumors is that they are comprised only of cancerous cells. However, solid tumors   more