Weeks after the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that killed dozens of people, analysts are starting to make sense of the attack by the al-Shabaab Islamist group.

“Al-Shabaab has claimed this is in retaliation for Kenyan forces being in Somalia,” says Rebecca Cruise, the Assistant Dean of the University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies. “Kenya can expect to see more unless they change their policies.”

A Love County disposal well was shutdown last week after a state seismologist suggested it might have triggered a swarm of damaging earthquakes that shook the area for weeks in September.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt wants the federal government to sign off on the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways.

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging the merger on antitrust concerns. American Airlines, which currently employs more than 6,000 workers at its maintenance facility in Tulsa, is seeking to exit bankruptcy protection through the proposed merger.

Divorce and the effect it has on state government spending in Oklahoma, including welfare programs, is not something that can be improved with new policies or programs. That's according to Marriage and Religion Research Institute Director Patrick Fagan and Jim Struby, director of Adult and Family Services at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.

Both spoke during a Human Services hearing on Thursday at the State Capitol.

Despite numerous concerns and complaints from legislators, the head of the organization that governs high school sports in Oklahoma says there is no need for the Legislature to impose statutory restrictions on the group.

This week's OneSix8 gives you an opportunity to raise money for a good cause while playing with pups, having a giant slumber party or enjoying some barbeque.

Stars and Stripes Park at Lake Heftner hosts the 10th annual Pirate Puggerfest from 10:00 a.m until 4:00 p.m. October 5th. Admission is $5 for adults and kids are free. Guests are encouraged to bring their own pugs because all proceeds of the event go to the Homeward Bound Pug Rescue and Adoption of Oklahoma.

Federally run campsites, parks and pavilions at dozens of Oklahoma lakes controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have closed because of the federal government shutdown. But that’s not keeping people away from lakes like Texoma, Eufaula, and Tenkiller, it’s just funneling them into state parks instead.