Forbes named these Oklahoma employers some of the best in the country: See the list

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Forbes named these Oklahoma employers some of the best in the country: See the list

With more people content to remain at their current jobs, Forbes recently released its 2024 Best Employers by State.

The media company partnered with Statista to survey more than 160,000 employees working for companies with at least 500 people in the United States.

Forbes listed 35 companies in Oklahoma with 19 headquartered in Oklahoma.

Here’s which companies in Oklahoma made the list:

No. 1: Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce

CEO: Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby

Headquarters: Ada

Industry: Travel and leisure

Employees: 13,500

Year founded: 1983

No. 2: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

CEO: Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton

Headquarters: Tuskahoma

Industry: Government services

Employees: 12,000

Year founded: 1820

No. 3: American Electric Power

CEO: Benjamin G.S. Fowke

Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio

Industry: Utilities

Employees: 17,250

Year founded: 1906

No. 4: Oklahoma Heart Hospital

CEO: John R. Harvey

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Health care and social services

Employees: N/A

Year founded: 2002

No. 5: Saint Francis Health System

CEO: Cliff Robertson

Headquarters: Tulsa

Industry: Health care and social services

Employees: 11,000

Year founded: 1960

No. 6: MidFirst Bank

CEO: Jeff Records

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Banking and financial services

Employees: 3,268

Year founded: 1982

No. 7: Costco Wholesale

CEO: Roland M. Vachris

Headquarters: Issaquah, Washington

Industry: Retail and wholesale

Employees: 208,000

Year founded: 1983

No. 8: Oklahoma State University – Main campus

CEO: Oklahoma State University President Kayse Shrum

Headquarters: Stillwater

Industry: Education

Employees: 8,882

Year founded: 1890

No. 9: Dell Technologies

CEO: Michael Saul Dell

Headquarters: Round Rock, Texas

Industry: Semiconductors, electronics, electrical engineering

Employees: 42,560

Year founded: 1984

No. 10: Tyson Foods

CEO: Donnie D. King

Headquarters: Springdale, Arkansas

Industry: Food, soft beverages, alcohol and tobacco

Employees: 120,000

Year founded: 1935

No. 11: Stillwater Medical Center

CEO: Denise Webber

Headquarters: Stillwater

Industry: Health care and social services

Employees: 2,000

Year founded: 1916

No. 12: University of Oklahoma

CEO: University of Oklahoma President Joseph Harroz Jr.

Headquarters: Norman

Industry: Education

Employees: 18,000

Year founded: 1890

No. 13: OGE Energy

CEO: Sean Trauschke

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Utilities

Employees: 2,329

Year founded: 1902

No. 14: Cherokee Nation

CEO: Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskins Jr.

Headquarters: Tahlequah

Industry: Government services

Employees: 11,600

Year founded: 1839

No. 15: Target

CEO: Brian C. Cornell

Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Industry: Retail and wholesale

Employees: 415,000

Year founded: 1902

No. 16: Arvest Bank

CEO: Kevin Sabin

Headquarters: Lowell, Arkansas

Industry: Banking and financial services

Employees: 6,462

Year founded: 1961

No. 17: Cox Entertainment

CEO: Alex Taylor

Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia

Industry: Telecommunications services, cable supplier

Employees: 50,000

Year founded: 1898

No. 18: Amazon

CEO: Andrew R. Jassy

Headquarters: Seattle, Washington

Industry: Retail and wholesale

Employees: 1,525,000

Year founded: 1994

No. 19: Oklahoma State University Medical Center

CEO: Johnny Stephens

Headquarters: Tulsa

Industry: Health care and social services

Employees: N/A

Year founded: 1972

No. 20: Whirlpool

CEO: Marc Robert Bitzer

Headquarters: Benton Harbor, Michigan

Industry: Semiconductors, electronics, electrical engineering

Employees: 18,880

Year founded: 1911

No. 21: Oklahoma Department of Human Services

CEO: Deborah Shropshire

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Government services

Employees: 5,000

Year founded: 1936

No. 22: Sodexo

CEO: Sophie Clamens

Headquarters: Gaithersburg, Maryland

Industry: Business services and supplies

Employees: 435,159

Year founded: 1966

No. 23: U.S. Department of Defense

CEO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III

Headquarters: Arlington County, Virginia

Industry: Government services

Employees: 3,400,000

Year founded: 1947

No. 24: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

CEO: U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough

Headquarters: Washington, District of Columbia

Industry: Government services

Employees: 400,000

Year founded: 1930

No. 25: Enterprise Mobility

CEO: Andrew C. Taylor

Headquarters: St. Louis, Missouri

Industry: Travel and leisure

Employees: 90,000

Year founded: 1957

No. 26: Oklahoma City Public Schools

CEO: Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Polk

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Education

Employees: 4,285

Year founded: 1889

No. 27: Macy’s

CEO: Antony Spring

Headquarters: New York, New York

Industry: Retail and wholesale

Employees: 85,581

Year founded: 1858

No. 28: FedEx

CEO: Rajesh Subramaniam

Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee

Industry: Transportation and logistics

Employees: 600,000

Year founded: 1971

No. 29: One Gas

CEO: Robert S. McAnnally

Headquarters: Tulsa

Industry: Utilities

Employees: 3,900

Year founded: 2014

No. 30: AT&T

CEO: John T. Stankey

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas

Industry: Telecommunications services, cable supplier

Employees: 149,900

Year founded: 1876

No. 31: Hobby Lobby

CEO: David Green

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Retail and wholesale

Employees: 43,000

Year founded: 1972

No. 32: Devon Energy

CEO: Richard E. Muncrief

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Construction, chemicals, raw materials

Employees: 1,900

Year founded: 1971

No. 33: State of Oklahoma

CEO: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Government services

Employees: 30,000

Year founded: 1907

No. 34: City of Oklahoma City

CEO: Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt

Headquarters: Oklahoma City

Industry: Government services

Employees: 4,500

Year founded: 1889

No. 35: Norman Regional Health System

CEO: Richie Splitt

Headquarters: Norman

Industry: Health care and social services

Employees: 2,700

Year founded: 1946

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Severe weather threat increasing for Oklahoma tonight

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March 10, 2026

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Severe weather threat increasing for Oklahoma tonight

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Severe weather is still expected tonight across much of our area. In fact, the threats have increased since this morning due to more clearing skies in western Oklahoma. More sunshine means more instability to work with.

SPC Severe Weather Outlook. (KOKH)

Due to this, the Storm Prediction Center has increased all hazards for our part of Oklahoma. The strongest storms could produce winds up to 80 mph, baseball size hail, and a few tornadoes. This would be from essentially now until early Wednesday morning.

SPC Tornado Outlook. (KOKH)

The tornadic potential has increased across much of the area generally along and east of I-44/I-35.

The general thinking is that discrete supercells will form in western North Texas in the 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM window and begin to make their way towards southwest Oklahoma. These storms will then quickly go from being individual cells to more clusters of storms. This would increase the wind potential and make it possible for brief spinup tornadoes to form. These QLCS (quasi-linear convective systems) tornadoes can form and develop quickly.

Once the storms are generally east of I-35, there won’t be any more cells anymore and we’d be looking at a larger squall line. Check out the below model images for a look at the evolution of the storms tonight:

There is also the potential for very heavy rain with these storms too.

A cold front will sweep the storms away to the east tonight. After the front, strong northerly winds are possible. Due to this, there is a Wind Advisory Wednesday for parts of our area.

Wednesday Wind Gusts. (KOKH)

These strong winds will increase the fire danger Wednesday afternoon.

To stay up to date with the latest forecast, be sure to download the Fox 25 Weather App.

Download the Fox 25 First Warning Weather App. (KOKH)

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‘I cannot stay silent’ Oklahoma City moves to dismiss former attorneys claims seized cash

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March 10, 2026

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‘I cannot stay silent’ Oklahoma City moves to dismiss former attorneys claims seized cash

A legal fight is escalating between former Oklahoma City municipal attorney Orval Jones and the city over how the Oklahoma City Police Department handled cash seized during arrests.

The city has filed a motion asking a judge to strike Jones’ claims, arguing he has no legal standing and calling the criminal-case process a “restitution scheme.”

Jones says he spent eight years “cleaning up” the OKCPD property return process from 2017 to March 2025 until he resigned “due to duress” in September.

He filed an affidavit claiming OKCPD seized more than $400,000 in cash from arrests and deposited it into the city’s bank account.

In his audit, Jones made lists of seized cash amounts, including amounts under $250, from $250 up to $500, and more than $500.

In its motion, the city argues Jones is no longer an attorney for the city or the district attorney’s office, is not an owner of any of the property “properly disposed of,” and has not suffered an injury.

The city also alleges Jones filed his motion with “half-truths” and without support or proof.

Jones responded in a rebuttal affidavit that the issue involves injury to the state, the county, other counties, crime victims, and property owners who received no notice. Jones said, “I had a professional duty to tell the court that these filings were legally defective and potentially fraudulent. I cannot stay silent.”

In an email in April 2025, OKCPD Chief Ron Bacy said the department had 288,000 overdue property and currency claims needing a disposition update, and that many investigators assigned to those cases are no longer employed with the department. Bacy said the department developed programs to assist the Property Management Unit.

Court documents show more than 350,000 pieces of property held in the Property Management Unit, more than $2.5 million in the unit’s bank account, and that 80% of the property and money are due for disposition.

If a judge agrees with Jones, the funds may be returned to the owners.

If the judge agrees with the city, the case will be dropped.

The city and OKCPD had not responded to open records requests submitted Feb. 10.

When asked whether the city conducted or requested an internal review into the allegations, the city said it does not comment on pending litigation.

A hearing has been set later this month.

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Oklahoma AG Drummond backs Trump EPA bid to rescind 2009 greenhouse gas finding

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March 9, 2026

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Oklahoma AG Drummond backs Trump EPA bid to rescind 2009 greenhouse gas finding

OKLA. — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is seeking to join a federal court fight over the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to roll back a key climate change finding that has underpinned vehicle emissions regulations for more than a decade.

Drummond filed a motion to intervene with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on March 9, 2026, backing the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate what his office called “radical regulations of carbon emissions.”

The dispute centers on the EPA’s decision to rescind the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding.

In a Final Rule issued earlier this year, the EPA concluded it lacked statutory authority to establish the Endangerment Finding, which had been used to justify vehicle emission restrictions under the Clean Air Act.

Drummond joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general seeking to support the EPA after “a gaggle of special-interest groups” petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review the Final Rule.

“Thankfully, the Trump Administration is correcting the outrageous overreach that was the hallmark of the Obama-Biden Administration,” Drummond said. “Oklahoma’s energy industry, and that of our nation, should not be hobbled by unnecessary regulations born from a radical climate agenda. A panoply of would-be vehicle emission standards would be disastrous for a robust oil and gas industry, adversely impact our economy, hurt the reliability of our electrical grids and undermine national security.”

Drummond’s office said that since taking office he has filed more than 25 legal actions opposing environmental regulations, including tailpipe emission standards and efforts aimed at eliminating gas-powered vehicles.

In addition to Oklahoma, the states joining the motion to intervene are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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