07/06/11 After competing at World Summer Games Athens 2011, Special Olympics Oklahoma athletes and delegates are returning to Tulsa on Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
07/01/11 A LeFlore County teen was killed in a three-car accident Wednesday afternoon.
06/30/11 Prosecutors must petition Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin for a warrant to extradite Suhail Shanti. Fingerprint Check Lands Canadian Resident In Jail For 1983 Poteau Murder
06/30/11 Brad Carson, a former Second District congressman for Oklahoma, apparently has given up his bid to regain the seat in 2012.
06/29/11 A Poteau teen was killed Wednesday after she drove through an intersection and hit another vehicle, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
06/29/11 A 16-year-old Poteau girl was killed Wednesday when she ran a stop sign and slammed into a pickup truck, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
06/29/11 A LeFlore County teen was killed Wednesday afternoon in a car accident. Friends and family of Howe student Kristen Lovell, 16, held a candlelight vigil to remember her Friday.
06/23/11 Steve Harris, frontman for the Poteau-based country-rockers, is getting a second chance at a music career more than a decade after leaving those dreams behind.
06/23/11 After cooling their heels for more than hour, the Ada Post 72 Braves never really got warmed up, at least offensively, against host Brassfield Wednesday night at Dolese Park.
06/22/11 Regents who govern the University of Oklahoma voted Wednesday in Ardmore to approve a 5 percent increase in tuition and fees for undergraduate students next school year. Meanwhile, presidents from the state's public colleges and universities made tuition and fee increase requests to state regents during a meeting in Oklahoma City. State regents will vote Thursday whether to approve the requests.
06/13/11 The 2012 election is a year and a half away, but early indications are that Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District race could be between Barack Obama and Paul Ryan.
05/23/11 Carl Albert State College is one of 120 community colleges in the running for the first-ever $1 million Aspen Institute for Community College Excellence prize, according to the institute.
05/23/11 Despite a roster that has undergone dramatic changes from season to season, Travis Graham has been able to establish a tradition of excellence in the three summers since he brought American Legion baseball back to the Ada area in 2008.
04/25/11 The D.C.-based non-profit the Aspen Institute has ranked the nation's top 120 community colleges. Dr. Jill Biden, a community college professor, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan helped present the winners today. The analysis and resulting list are part of an initiative to improve graduation rates among the six million Americans who enroll in the primarily [... ]
03/17/11 The introductory team roping for Barton Productions Thursday at the Checotah Round-Up Club was a nice warm-up for their spring break event there this week. Jeremy Williams of McAlester won the trophy buckle.
03/15/11 POTEAU - A proposed deal with Carl Albert State College administrators may keep the Heavener Runestone Park open, officials said Monday.
03/11/11 POTEAU - Christopher Wayne Elmore, 32, of Pocola pleaded to first-degree manslaughter Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Assistant District Attorney Meg Nicholson said Thursday.
03/10/11 The Bartons are starting their spring and summer weekly team ropings at the Checotah Round-Up Club tonight. This Saturday is their scheduled weekend saddle drawpot at the Double D Arena in Poteau.
03/10/11 SPIRO - In just her first season in her first coaching job, Spiro girls basketball coach Kayla Carrington has already achieved a career goal.
03/09/11 Several dogs have been reported missing from an area just outside Van Buren city limits, according to a local dog rescuer. |