KCCU News

Austin, TX – Turnout for this week's general election in Texas was 59 percent.

The secretary of state's office says that works out to a little more than eight million voters casting ballots.

Election officials had projected turnout of the state's more than 13.5 million registered voters could run as high as 68 percent.

The 2004 general election in Texas saw turnout of 56 percent -- with about 7.4 million voters.

Tulsa, OK – A political analyst says Oklahoma's strong oil and natural gas industry plus low unemployment and relatively stable housing contributed to Republican John McCain's wide margin of victory in the state.

McCain won 66 percent of the vote in Oklahoma which is his biggest margin of victory.

Nationwide Democrat Barack Obama won in a landslide.

University of Oklahoma political science professor Keith Gaddie says things are going well in Oklahoma and voters saw no reason to punish Republicans.

Dallas, TX – A lost painting by Italian master Sebastiano Ricci (REE'-chee) has turned up in a Dallas warehouse after a 300-year journey.

That journey has seen Ricci's ``The Vision of St. Bruno'' change hands from a European nobleman playboy to a Missouri fur trader and finally to generations of an American family.

The discovery came only after the family asked an art expert to take a look at the 3-by-4-food painting depicting a robed St. Bruno glancing up to a colorful group of angels.