Two Republican candidates for a state Senate seat in Tulsa in the Aug. 26 primary runoff have raised a total of $179,499 since their campaigns began.

Oklahoma State is being represented at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

The National Weather Service said the front will extend from central Oklahoma into west Texas. A few strong storms were likely overnight near the surface boundaries, mainly over southern Oklahoma.

Fueled by a robust energy industry, personal income for the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas continued to outpace the nation in 2007, according to estimates released Thursday from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.