• PCPD seeks suspects in theft

    PCPD seeks suspects in theft - June 09, 2018

    These are surveillance pictures from Factory Connection. Two Native American females took merchandise from the store and left with a third female in a white flat-bed pick-up truck displaying Ton...

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  • OSDH warns residents of heat-related illnesses

    OSDH warns residents of heat-related illnesses - June 08, 2018

    Summer is heating up, and as temperatures rise, so does the risk of heat-related illness. Each year, more than 600 people die from heat-related illness in the United States. In Oklahoma, there were 1...

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  • US-77 closes near Ponca City Monday night for railroad work 

    US-77 closes near Ponca City Monday night for railroad work  - June 08, 2018

    Southbound US-77 will be closed just north of SH-11 East, north of Ponca City, from 7 p.m. Monday to 2 a.m. Tuesday for railroad repairs by BNSF Railway. Drivers must use an alternate route during thi...

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  • Oklahoma inmate pleads guilty to running meth ring from cell

    Oklahoma inmate pleads guilty to running meth ring from cell - June 08, 2018

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma man already serving time for murder has pleaded guilty to using contraband cellphones to run a large-scale meth ring from his maximum-security prison cell. The Tulsa...

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  • Oklahoma tops states in incarceration rate

    Oklahoma tops states in incarceration rate - June 08, 2018

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A study has found Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S. The Tulsa World reports that the Prison Policy Initiative released its "States of Incarceration: The Gl...

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  • OU investigating allegations of sexual harassment

    OU investigating allegations of sexual harassment - June 08, 2018

    NORMAN -- The University of Oklahoma says it is investigating reports that some allegations of sexual harassment against a former professor were not vetted after dozens spoke out in an open letter enc...

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  • Man killed in crash at end of police chase in Guthrie

    Man killed in crash at end of police chase in Guthrie - June 08, 2018

    GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma City man was killed when the pickup truck he was driving crashed while being pursued by police. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 31-year-old Stephen Sloniker died ...

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  • Planning Commission approves code revisions to allow zoning for medical marijuana dispensaries

    Planning Commission approves code revisions to allow zoning for medical marijuana dispensaries - June 07, 2018

    The Ponca City Planning Commission on Tuesday approved revisions to city ordinances to define areas where medical marijuana can be sold, if State Question 788 is approved by voters in June 26. The...

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  • Life term for suspect in Oklahoma killing, burning of body

    Life term for suspect in Oklahoma killing, burning of body - June 06, 2018

    WAGONER, Okla. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy whose body was found on fire in northeastern Oklahoma. District Attor...

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  • Study finds possible deep faults, possible earthquake source

    Study finds possible deep faults, possible earthquake source - June 06, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Geologists say they may have found previously unmapped faults in Oklahoma that could be contributing to a sharp increase in induced earthquakes in the state. The possible faults ...

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