Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for parts of northern Oklahoma after a storm dropped up to 10 inches of rain in some areas late Sunday and early Monday.

Forecasters say the rain has let up in the affected areas but flooding of creeks continues.

The flood warning was issued for Garfield, Grant, Kay and Noble counties in north-central Oklahoma. Areas at risk for flooding include Blackwell, Enid and Ponca City.

YALE, Okla. (AP) — He will be at least 70 years older than anyone else picking up a diploma at the Yale High School graduation ceremony next weekend, but that won't really matter to Francis Bickell.

While his original classmates were receiving their diplomas in 1942, the 88-year-old was overseas fighting in World War Two.

Bickell told The Oklahoman he believes he could have gone farther after the war if he had a high school diploma.

His son, Keith, says it bothered him that his father regretted not finishing high school.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 250 demonstrators marched on Oklahoma's state Capitol to protest legislation restricting reproductive rights.

UniteWomen.org organized "United Against the War on Women" marches and rallies across the nation Saturday in response to bills that it perceives as attacking reproductive and voting rights.

Demonstrators said measures such as the personhood act take away a woman's control over her own body. Senate Bill 1433 would declare that life begins at conception. Protesters said they want lawmakers to focus on education and health care issues.

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Cherokee Nation Businesses has reached a "separation agreement" with its chief executive officer.

Officials announced Friday that Dave Stewart will be paid $2.67 million as part of the agreement, which took effect immediately.

Stewart told The Tulsa World  the agreement he and the Cherokee Nation Businesses board of directors reached was amicable and mutual. He said it has been a pleasure to serve the Cherokee people for the past 10 years.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge has ruled a tribe seeking to build a casino in Broken Arrow can't use sovereign immunity as an argument to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General's office.

U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell on Thursday accepted the state's argument that Kialegee Tribal Town's corporate charter allows it "to sue and be sued." Frizzell also noted that Congress nullified tribal immunity from lawsuits involving gaming activities.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma ethics panel has reprimanded a University of Oklahoma doctor for accepting money from a company registered as a lobbying principal with the state.

The Oklahoman reports that the state Ethics Commission voted unanimously Friday to admonish Dr. Damian Laber.

According to the discipline report, Laber took $27,800 in speaking fees from Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Agency in 2010.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — American Electric Power is disputing a new study that claims pollution from its 26 coal-fired power plants caused up to 3,200 deaths last year.

The analysis was done for the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council. It also estimated that the combined economic toll from the pollution emitted by AEP plants was as high as $24 billion in 2011.

The study also claims that AEP's plants caused more than 20,000 asthma attacks and more than 1 million lost work days last year.

PRAGUE, Okla. (AP) — A small earthquake has been reported in Lincoln County in central Oklahoma.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.8-magnitude quake was recorded about five miles northwest of Prague around 9:14 p.m. Friday. A sheriff's office dispatcher said Saturday she wasn't aware of any injury or damage reports.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed the so-called "Fetal Heartbeat" bill into law.

The legislation requires abortion providers to inform women that they have the right to hear the heartbeat their fetus before having an abortion.

Supporters say the measure gives women additional information before deciding to abort.

Opponents say it duplicates state law that requires women to listen to the fetus' heartbeat as part of informed consent laws on abortion.

Fallin signed the bill Friday. It takes effect Nov. 1.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State leaders are claiming success in pushing some of their major initiatives past a key legislative deadline this week, but with a month left in the 2012 session it's clear not everyone is getting all they wanted.

Proponents for deep tax cuts and the ultimate elimination of the state's income tax, anti-abortion groups, district attorneys and anti-smoking advocates all have suffered setbacks so far this legislative session.