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Headlines: Budget Deficit Grows, Stillwater Drilling & Chemical Castration

Headlines for Friday, February 13th, 2015:

  • State leader worry the budget deficit might double. (Tulsa World)

  • Oklahoma is graduating more high school students than the national average at 85%. (OK Watch)

  • Lawmakers hope a bill which passed out of committee can reduce prison overcrowding.(Tulsa World)

  • An amendment to the texting and driving bill under consideration honors two highway patrol troopers. (NewsOK)

  • A committee creating new school standards in math and reading is hearing from national experts. (Tulsa World)

  • Lawmakers are considering legislation to chemically castrate sex offenders. (KFOR)

  • An Oklahoma Congressman wants to privatize the nation’s weather satellite program. (Tulsa World)

  • Stillwater leaders are considering changes to drilling for oil and gas in city limits. (Journal Record)

  • As the deadline to enroll in health care nears, federal officials are reaching out to rural Oklahomans. (NewsOK)

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