Adams' success not about money, former guardian says
The woman who helped raise Steven Adams shares her thoughts on his mammoth NBA contract.
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Mum marries her own daughter
A 43-year-old woman and her 23-year-old daughter have been arrested and charged with incest.
Watch: Cop pepper sprays elderly woman
Video released by police in Oklahoma shows an officer pepper-spraying an 84-year-old woman after authorities entered her home to search for her son.
Who won the sporting weekend?
Who were the winners and who were the losers from the sporting weekend? Wynne Gray and Chris Rattue make their picks.
Adams 'fine' and ready for a thriller
Steven Adams' dreams of reaching his first NBA Finals will come down to a winner-takes-all thriller tomorrow afternoon (NZT).
Man kills with 'wedgie'
A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an atomic wedgie, that caused the victim to suffocate in his own underwear.
Shooter, 73, a 'pay to play cop'
The shooting by an elderly white police reservist of an unarmed black suspect has raised questions about the use of volunteer officers to supplement full-time police.
Oklahoma votes to execute prisoners by suffocation
Politicians in the state of Oklahoma have come up with a new and largely untested way to execute death row prisoners – asphyxiation with nitrogen.
Politician opponent 'a robot'
A US congressman was replaced by a robot body double after he was secretly executed, and the results of a recent vote should be thrown out, his opponent has claimed.
Oklahoma City: The sound of Thunder
James Robinson finds Oklahoma people are good-natured and big on basketball and memorials.
Across the USA - are we there yet?
Getting a family of five across the US by car is no mean feat, finds Danielle Murray.