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According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be...

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1:53 a.m Deputy advised he was going to remove the deer that had been struck earlier in the evening from the road. 9:39 a.m. Reporting party (RP) advised there were two pickups parked in the middle of a county road 2 miles...

November 21, 2016 Undersheriff Gentry, Deputy Arnold and Deputy McLemore did a welfare check on some dogs in Hardtner. Deputy Arnold investigated illegal drugs used in Hardtner. November 22, 2016 At 6:10 a.m. Mark Scripsick, Sharon, driving a 2000...

The Burlington Board of Education met for the October meeting on Monday, Nov. 21. Members present were: Terry Graham, Allison Armbruster, Aaron Smith, T.J. Rockenbach and Robert Hill. Others present were: Superintendent Glen Elliott, Principal Shane...

The Kiowa City Council held a special meeting Monday, Nov. 21, to discuss internet service with the city's provider, SCTelcom of Medicine Lodge. SCTelcom CEO and General Manager Kelly Johnson attended, as did SCTelcom Board Member Paul Harbaugh....

DURANT, Okla. – For the first time under head coach Shawn Hamil the Southeastern women's tennis team will open the championship section of the season with a preseason ranking after checking in at No. 48 in the ITA Tennis Preseason poll. The team r...

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern men's tennis will enter the spring portion of its schedule ranked No. 17 in the nation and led by Netanel Alcabas who is ranked No. 17 in the Central Region individually. The Savage Storm wrapped a solid individual s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 28, 2016) – Too often in Oklahoma Christian's early season games, the Lady Eagles hadn't started strong, OC women's basketball coach Stephanie Findley said, so she made it a point of emphasis before Thursday night's game a...

DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — A first-degree murder charge has been filed against a Marlow man in the death of a Duncan woman. Prosecutors on Tuesday charged 25-year-old Baltazar Sanchez-Garcia in the death of 20-year-old Linda Salazar. Sanchez-Garcia is n...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma will continue with an update to its A-F grading system for school performance even though new federal regulations don't require states to grade schools using that system or any other single indicator score. State s...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday agreed to reconsider the status of a grouse found in pockets across the Great Plains as environmentalists fight to return the bird to the list of protected species. The lesser prairie chi...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man will stand trial for first-degree manslaughter. A judge ruled Tuesday that there is enough evidence for Tulsa police officer Betty Jo Shelby to be tried for s...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the death of a Muskogee woman found in Tullahassee in Wagoner County. KOTV-TV (http://bit.ly/2ggLOm1 ) reports Muskogee police were called by a man who arranged to meet t...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — McDonald's is testing the use of fresh, never frozen beef for its Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The fast food giant says the tests are being carried out in 75 of its restaurants in the Tulsa, Oklahoma-area. It says Quarter P...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A powerful Tulsa attorney who donated more than $2 million to his own campaign for governor in 2002 says he is taking a "very serious look" at running for governor in 2018. Gary Richardson told The Associated Press on Tuesday t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dan Boren, a former four-term Democratic congressman from one of Oklahoma's most well-known political families, has decided not to run for the state's open governor seat in 2018. Boren told The Associated Press that he opted agai...

TALOGA, Okla. (AP) — A western Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife. Court records show 25-year-old Lanne Baldwin of Bessie pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a plea agreement and was s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma state troopers will drive less and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's aircraft will be grounded more often under new budget cuts announced Tuesday by the state Department of Public Safety. DPS Commissioner Michael Thompson s...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A multistate outbreak of salmonella bacteria that is resistant to several drugs has been linked to infected dairy bull calves purchased in Wisconsin, according to federal and state health officials. According to the Centers f...