Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort to get to ...

“LEAKERS,” to use today’s vernacular, have never had an easy time of it. Most rarely begin as whistleblowers, alerting others to danger and criminal activities. Too many, like Karen Silkwood, end up ...

If things had been different, Karen Silkwood would have kept that appointment with the New York Times about the alleged hazards at an Oklahoma plant. The world could have read her story and a mother ...

The U.S. government will stop at nothing to prevent whistleblowers from revealing official secrets. Edward Snowden, who exposed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs in June, is the ...

On this day in history, the Enterprise is remembering union activist Karen Silkwood on what would be her 80th birthday. Silkwood was born in Longview on Feb. 19, 1946 to William and Merle Silkwood but ...

Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation. The official ...

The 28-year-old whistleblower investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was reportedly on her way to meet a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal car crash ...

CRESCENT, Okla. — The 28-year-old lab worker investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal ...