• Citywide Garage Sale Day, annual Spring Cleanup dates set

    Citywide Garage Sale Day, annual Spring Cleanup dates set - March 13, 2018

    Ponca City's annual Citywide Garage Sale Day and annual Spring Cleanup dates are set for April. The Garage Sale Day will be April 14. The $5 permit fee for garage sales will be waived that day in c...

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  • Irish Prime Minister visits Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma; announces scholarship

    Irish Prime Minister visits Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma; announces scholarship - March 12, 2018

    DURANT – Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday helped welcome Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to Oklahoma, where he visited with members of the Choctaw Nation, to thank their ancestors for donating mon...

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  • Second lawsuit filed over fatal Oklahoma gas rig explosion

    Second lawsuit filed over fatal Oklahoma gas rig explosion - March 12, 2018

    McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - A second wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a natural gas rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five men - three from Oklahoma, one from Texas and one from Colorado. ...

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  • Two dead, one injured in apparent slaying-suicide

    Two dead, one injured in apparent slaying-suicide - March 12, 2018

    WEWOKA, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma investigators say two people are dead and another injured after an apparent slaying-suicide. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says that Baylie Goodwin told p...

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  • Longest-serving Police Officer retires from Ponca City Police Department

    Longest-serving Police Officer retires from Ponca City Police Department - March 12, 2018

    Regeneia Van Arsdale’s retirement reception was held Friday afternoon at the Public Safety Center. Van Arsdale began her employment with the Ponca City Police Department in May of 1982 as a dispa...

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  • Oklahoma lawmakers mull using trust funds for teacher raises

    Oklahoma lawmakers mull using trust funds for teacher raises - March 12, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma lawmakers are looking into giving teachers pay raises or bonuses without raising taxes by tapping into $2.4 billion in trust funds managed by the Commissioners of the Lan...

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  • OSBI Offers Reward in Okemah 2012 Homicide Case

    OSBI Offers Reward in Okemah 2012 Homicide Case - March 12, 2018

      The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is renewing a reward in a homicide case in Okemah, hoping the money will encourage someone with knowledge of the crime to come forward. On Octob...

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  • Ponca City Board of Education supports teachers; to discuss possible walkout

    Ponca City Board of Education supports teachers; to discuss possible walkout - March 12, 2018

    The Ponca City Public Schools Board of Education will vote on a resolution at their meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, March 12, to support a salary increase for public school teachers and encourage the Oklaho...

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  • Man’s body discovered Saturday

    Man’s body discovered Saturday - March 12, 2018

    The discovery of a deceased’s man’s body was reported to the Ponca City Police Department at approximately 4:20 p.m. Saturday behind businesses in the wooded area of the 1100 block of East Prospec...

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  • Chamber Chat

    Chamber Chat - March 12, 2018

    We will have a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Monday at 2 p.m. for the new location for Russell Cellular Verizon store at 2720 N. 14th Street. Please join us. We are excited to provide PRIDE Training on...

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