Achille News

Tomorrow kicks off the Golden Harvest Festival in Achille, Oklahoma. This is the 16th Annual Golden Harvest Day and each year it's given in honor of the Esbenshade's son, Jamie, who passed away in 1993.

Benefit Brisket Dinner for firefighter Eric Wolke. He was severely injured in a near fatal motorcycle accident on Nov.1,08 and is now home recovering with a traumatic brain injury.

Yuba 74741 Yarnaby Community Center is located 9 miles south of Achille on Highway 78, then 1 mile south on Yarnaby Road.

A Durant man was seriously injured in a rollover crash Wednesday on Highway 78 north of Achille.

Increased activities and a low unemployment rate have enabled Durant to continue bucking the nationwide economic downturn with yet another month of increased sales tax revenue.

SMOKE ENVELOPS a firefighter as he sprays water on the remains of a burning house on Lemonhill Road Monday afternoon.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m, to 7 p.m. on Tuesday for the Achille, Bennington, Caddo, Calera, and Durant municipal elections.

Several hundred acres of brush and vegetation went up in smoke Friday as firefighters worked to contain a wildfire near Muddy Creek Road.

Registered voters in Bryan County are physically incapacitated won't have to miss the April 7 Achille, Bennington, Caddo, Calera and Durant Municipal elections, County Election Board Secretary Linda Fahrendorf said.

In this week's Behind the Kitchen Door, we're looking out for you and the cleanliness of your child's school cafeteria.

Police officers arrested a man Thursday on the Oklahoma side of the Denison Dam, charging him with indecent exposure after two witnesses claimed to have seen him masturbating naked outside his truck, according to a police report.

DURANT a ' A former Bryan County jailer accused of sexually assaulting an inmate has been sentenced to prison.

A seventh grade student with rich brown eyes and a head of scruffy brown hair stared at the math problem on his notebook paper as if trying to decipher a code written in another language.

DURANT a ' An Achille man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the stabbing death of his stepfather.

Bryan County and the city of Durant continue to buck the nation's economic downward spiral by pulling off yet another month of increased sales tax revenue.

Durant Mayor Jerry Tomlinson is unopposed in his reelection bid and another incumbent drew an opponent.

Bryan County's burn ban was lifted Friday and officials said it could be reinstated if residents don't be careful while burning.

Candidates for municipal office in seven Bryan County municipalities file Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, February 2, 2009.

It's not just residents and businesses feeling the economic pinch., so are a number of rural schools.