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Oklahoma voters may keep President Barack Obama from getting a unanimous renomination vote. Obama won Oklahoma’s primary with 57 percent of the vote, but Randall Terry, a pro-life activist and democratic candidate president, got 18 percent. That is enough for Terry to lay claim to one delegate.

Until Oklahoma voters headed to the polls, Obama had won all of the Democratic delegates awarded so far. As Obama boarded Air Force One Wednesday morning and head for North Carolina, insiders say it was the economy and not his possible opponents in November that was on his mind.

Narcotics agents and prosecutors in Oklahoma sought what they considered a seemingly simple way to better fight methamphetamine labs in the state — limit access to a key ingredient of the drug by requiring a doctor’s prescription to buy it.

Instead, this usually influential group found itself outmanned by a well-financed drug lobby that funded radio ads, lobbyists and a local public relations firm to resist the plan.

Oklahomans who use common cold tablets containing pseudoephedrine can breathe easier after a House committee Tuesday rejected a measure that would have required them to obtain a doctor’s prescription to buy them.

The 7-6 failure to pass House Bill 2375 combined with last week’s vote by a Senate subcommittee to defeat a similar measure spells doom for the proposal. The failure of either measure to advance essentially ends consideration for House and Senate bills on the topic this year.

Oklahoma lawmakers edged closer toward trying to outlaw abortion on Wednesday by approving “personhood” legislation that gives individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception.

The Republican-controlled state Senate voted 34-8 to pass the “Personhood Act” which defines the word person under state law to include unborn children from the moment of conception.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin granted a 30-day stay of execution on Thursday to a convicted murderer scheduled to be put to death next week so that state attorneys could study whether he should be granted clemency.

Garry Thomas Allen, scheduled for lethal injection on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 1986 shooting death of his estranged girlfriend. But the state’s pardon and parole board recommended his death sentence be commuted to life in prison.