02/24/10 The bright lights and big cameras of Hollywood are filming in an unlikely place - Oklahoma's State Penitentiary in McAlester. Oklahoma State Penitentiary 02/24/10 It was May 26, 2009. Joshua Alvey had just downed a bottle of vodka. His blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit. Weatherford police and Department of Public Safety troopers didn't know that when they spiked his tires, trying to get him to pull over. They even considered shooting at his vehicle. "We got to get him stopped," said one law enforcement officer on the radio ... 02/24/10 The anticipation of and anxiety about that momentous 2012 football game in Boulder between the Colorado Buffaloes and the Utah Utes intensifies every day. Be still our hearts. 02/24/10 ATOKA, OK - A shooting early Wednesday morning in Atoka sends two men to a local hospital. Atoka Police say two men from Talequah who didn't know each other got into an argument which turned into a fight at the Love's Convenience Store in Atoka. 02/24/10 A national donation drive to give women a secondhand suit and second chance at life kicks off today and continues through Sunday at Dress Barn locations nationwide.In its eighth-annual Send One Suit Weekend, Dress Barn stores in Oklahoma City, Norman, Stillwater, Tulsa and Owasso will be accepting gently-used suits, pants, shirts, skirts, shoes and other accessories. Donations will be trucked to ... 02/24/10 CONCORD MONITOR - Two Concord police officers investigating an unpaid tab at the Barley House on Monday night interrupted a Wentworth man's plan to kill several people at that restaurant and at Margaritas before killing himself, according to a police affidavit. 02/24/10 Randi Schuknecht worried that her longtime, established insurance company was about to leave Florida -- and leave her without a homeowner's policy. So she found a new insurer -- one she wouldn't ... 02/24/10 Police Chief Rebecca Coleman is in a good mood this morning. It's Friday in Jackson, and the city is seeing more snow today than it has in years. The icy weather, while a deviation from typical central Mississippi weather, did not contain the kind of deadly black ice that terrifies cops. 02/24/10 Sheriff Marty Donini says deputies arrested Wade Bales,23,of Stout. 02/24/10 Members of the next college football recruiting class cannot sign national letters of intent until February 2011, but Oklahoma State already has five commits. 02/24/10 The Girls Aloud singer was initially unimpressed by the footballer's crude attempts at flattery but then gave in. 02/17/10 Cathy Perfect/Kern Valley Sun Noah Greenwald, Endangered Species Program Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, announced this morning, "We are not planning to seek an injunction to stop stocking the Kern River at this time." |