University of Oklahoma

A University of Oklahoma law school graduate who has nearly three decades of experience in the oil and gas industry will take over as the university’s fourteenth president.

The Board of Regents named James Gallogly, who graduated from OU Law in 1977, as the university’s next president on Monday morning. He will replace David Boren, who is retiring after 23 years.

In anticipation of a Norman City Council vote to rename a street named after a deceased Ku Klux Klan member, a city councilwoman says she’ll cover the costs of the renaming herself.

Ward 6 Councilwoman Breea Clark is planning to start a GoFundMe to pay for administrative fees associated with renaming DeBarr Avenue, as well as new street signs. She also hopes to pay for other costs, like updating residents’ driver’s licenses, legal documents and checkbooks, if she raises enough funds.

University of Oklahoma President David Boren has announced his retirement at the end of this academic year.

Boren addressed the university Wednesday afternoon to a packed audience at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center in Holmberg Hall, where he announced he will step down.

You may have heard a familiar voice recently on KGOU.

He’s an Oklahoma broadcasting legend, Gary England.

For more than forty years Gary was chief meteorologist at KWTV – predicting the weather with his folksy charm and keeping Oklahomans advised about severe and violent weather.

Oklahomans trusted Gary England to keep them safe, and they still can.

Now, he works out of the University of Oklahoma, and provides his unique weather insights on KGOU.

The University of Oklahoma's football team has a new all-time leading rusher after running back Samaje Perine broke Billy Sims' 37-year-old record Monday night during the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Perine came into the game needing just 83 yards to surpass the mark Sims set during the 1979 season. He broke the record with about five minutes left in the Sooners' 35-19 victory over Auburn University.

More than 100 students, faculty, and staff members gathered on the University of Oklahoma's South Oval Wednesday in opposition to an anti-Black Lives Matter and anti-Islamic protest. OU President David Boren ordered the group to leave campus, or face arrest.

A small group of so-called street preachers have come to the campus before. This time, the group took aim at sensitive issues around the country, holding signs reading “BLM Are Racist Thugs” and “Muhammad is the devil.”  

Former University of Oklahoma gymnast Alex Naddour earned the bronze medal in the men’s individual pommel horse final Sunday afternoon during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

It's the first medal in the event for the United States since Tim Daggett also took bronze in 1984.

Two years after the altercation between Amelia Molitor and University of Oklahoma football player Joe Mixon, Molitor is suing the restaurant where it happened in federal court.

The lawsuit alleges the Campus Corner establishment didn't have a door man or a security guard the night Molitor was punched in the face, The Journal Record’s Dale Denwalt reports:

The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents has approved a 7 percent tuition and fee increase for Fiscal Year 2017. It’s the largest hike for OU students since 2008.

OU President David Boren said during Tuesday’s Regents meeting that OU operates with $160 million less than it did in 2008, despite a 1,000-1,500 increase in the number of students.

The University of Oklahoma's softball team captured its third national championship Wednesday night after defeating Auburn University 2-1.

Auburn's Emily Carosone, the star of Tuesday's comeback win with a grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning, couldn't follow it up.

In the bottom of the first, she committed an error on a grounder by Shay Knighten, and Caleigh Clifton scored for the Sooners when Carosone lost control of a throw to first. Knighten then scored on a slow-bouncing infield single to make it 2-0.

The University of Oklahoma's Buddy Hield won the James Naismith Trophy as the nation's top college basketball player.

The Atlanta Tipoff Club made the Sunday, one day after Hield was held to just nine points in the Sooners' 95-51 loss to Villanova University in Saturday evening's Final Four matchup.

2016 Naismith Men's College Player of the Year!! pic.twitter.com/8rPOBLCRT8

The University of Oklahoma was the first team to punch its ticket to the Final Four of the NCAA men’s tournament over the weekend. The Sooners defeated the University of Oregon 80-68 behind another strong performance by Buddy Hield, who finished with 37 points and made eight three-pointers.

The native of the Bahamas was part of head coach Lon Kruger's initial recruiting class in 2012, and took the Sooners from their initial struggles to college basketball's biggest stage in just four years.