Oklahoma earthquakes, deadly airplane crash, first female governor lead 2011 top stories list
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahomans felt the earth move in 2011 as the Sooner State was shaken by its strongest earthquake on record, damaging homes and other structures, buckling a highway and rattling the nerves of residents near its epicenter in central Oklahoma.
The 5.6 magnitude earthquake, its 4.7 magnitude foreshock and numerous aftershocks were the state's top news story of 2011 in balloting by members of The Associated Press and the AP's Oklahoma staff.
The crash of a single-engine aircraft that killed Oklahoma State University's head women's basketball coach, an assistant coach and two others was voted the state's No. 2 story in the annual AP poll. Also making the list were the arrest of a 25-year-old man in the mysterious 2008 shooting deaths of two girls near Weleetka, the election of a new chief of the Cherokee Nation, the largest deployment of Oklahoma National Guard troops since the Korean War and the death of a civil rights icon.
The top stories of 2010 were the election of Oklahoma's first female governor, Mary Fallin, budget shortfalls in state government and wild weather that included ice storms and tornadoes.
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