• USGS reports small earthquakes continue in central Oklahoma

    USGS reports small earthquakes continue in central Oklahoma - November 02, 2017

    HENNESSEY, Okla. (AP) - A series of small to moderate earthquakes have struck in central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded 11 quakes in the past week near Hennessey, about 45 miles ...

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  • Get ready for holidays with Pioneer Technology Center class

    Get ready for holidays with Pioneer Technology Center class - November 02, 2017

    Pioneer Technology Center is offering a three-hour class to help you decorate your porch for the holidays! A simple construction class will allow students to build a Christmas tree from pallets. Th...

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  • Jackie Brannon Correctional Center escapee captured

    Jackie Brannon Correctional Center escapee captured - November 02, 2017

    McALESTER, Okla. -- Inmate Joe D. Andrus has been apprehended after coming up missing during a 10 a.m. count Wednesday at Jackie Brannon Correctional Center. Andrus, 33, was located by DOC Fugitive A...

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  • Oklahoma House raises oil, gas production tax on some wells

    Oklahoma House raises oil, gas production tax on some wells - November 01, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma House has approved a measure to increase the gross production tax on oil and gas to 7 percent for some wells after defeating a proposal to impose the maximum 7 percen...

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  • OSBI working on cold case of woman’s death in Kiowa County

    OSBI working on cold case of woman’s death in Kiowa County - November 01, 2017

    In June of 2003, farm workers found 34-year-old Pamela Woodring’s nude body in a creek by a bridge two miles north of the intersection of highways 54 and 49 in Kiowa County. If anyone has informa...

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  • Lawyer, business director leave Oklahoma Health Department

    Lawyer, business director leave Oklahoma Health Department - November 01, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Health Department's top lawyer and business planning director have left the beleaguered agency following the resignation of its commissioner and his top deputy. Th...

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  • Angel Tree application slots filled

    Angel Tree application slots filled - November 01, 2017

    The volunteer crew which has stepped up to provide this year's Angel Tree program reports that all application slots are filled. "We do not have  the manpower to continue to answer the phone," Deb...

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  • Attorney General charges nursing home caretaker with financial exploitation

    Attorney General charges nursing home caretaker with financial exploitation - November 01, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General Mike Hunter has charged a certified nurse aide with four counts of financial exploitation by a caretaker and one count of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses....

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  • Northrup named interim director of OMES

    Northrup named interim director of OMES - November 01, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY -- Gov. Mary Fallin has announced leadership changes in the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. With Secretary Preston Doerflinger named interim director for the Oklahoma S...

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  • Trial delayed in toddler’s drowning death case

    Trial delayed in toddler’s drowning death case - November 01, 2017

    McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - A trial for an Oklahoma man who's facing a first-degree murder charge in the 2015 drowning death of his daughter has been delayed until early next year. Court records show 2...

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