Oklahoma

(Newser) - The 50-state quarter program will wrap up next year when quarters for the final five states will be released. The US Mint revealed their designs yesterday:

• Oklahoma's quarter will feature the state bird, the scissortail flycatcher, and the state flower, the Indian blanket.
• New Mexico's coin will be marked with

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(Newser) - The Trust for America's Health has come out with its fourth annual report on obesity.  And the losers are:

1. Mississippi
2. West Virginia
3. Alabama

(Newser) - BusinessWeek lists the 25 most affordable suburbs in the South, determined not only by housing prices but also cost of living, violent crime rate, and school test scores. The first 10, in alphabetical order:

1. Abilene, Texas
2. Broken Arrow, Okla.
3. Cary, NC
4. Charlottesville, Va.
5. Farragut, Va.

(Newser) - The floods overwhelming the Midwest worsened today as 42,000 gallons of crude oil accidentally released from a refinery on Sunday made its way farther downstream. A malfunction at a plant in Coffeyville, Kan., on the Oklahoma border, contaminated flood waters with a thick, pungent layer of sludge that threatens...