Anadarko News

A Verden husband and wife are lucky to be alive this week after the car they were in careened into a pond north of Verden and submerged during the Christmas Eve snow storm.

If it's rusty, Delayne Scarbrough likes it. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," says Scarbrough, owner of the so-called Dinosaur Ranch south of Chickasha.

By BILL HANNA Like a poker player visiting an Oklahoma tribal casino, the Tarrant Regional Water District is refusing to leave the table.And its latest chip in the high-stakes battle for Oklahoma water may eventually involve some of those Oklahoma tribes to compel Oklahoma to sell water to North Texas.'We're all in,' said Wayne Owen, the water ...

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' The former head of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma's child care program in Anadarko has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for embezzling from the program's funds.

Three months after the murder of a pastor who was found dead in her church some residents of Anadarko, Okla.

Three months after the slaying of a pastor in her church, some residents of Anadarko say they still have a sense of unease.

BURLINGTON - Ralph H. Jordan, 70, of Burlington, formerly of Anadarko, Okla., died Wednesday, Dec.

A family member and attorney have spoken out. DEDICATED MINISTER Carol Daniels: She drove to Anadarko from her Oklahoma City home to preach to whoever walked into her sometimes empty church.

Linn Energy LLC , the U.S. oil and gas partnership that doubled in value in the past year, agreed to buy Permian Basin and Anadarko Basin properties for $154.5 million to boost cash flow for investor payouts.

Bishop Jimmie R. Wright, 75, of Bastrop, La., died Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at East Haven Church of God in Bastrop, La., with Bishop David Sistrunk officiating.

Myrtle Bible says she feels fine being 100 years old. Bible, a former school teacher, celebrated her 100th birthday on Monday at Glenhaven Retirement Village in Chickasha.

A federally funded cold-case unit at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is getting ready to pore over more than 400 unsolved, violent crimes in search of DNA evidence.

With hundreds of area families in need this Christmas, a situation made worse by high unemployment, the local Salvation Army launched its Christmas Kettle Drive on Saturday with a $40,000 goal for 2009 here.

Tulsa native and now Los Angeles-based filmmaker Todd Lincoln seems to have his most promising film project to date lined up following the news that one of the stars of "Twilight" is this close to being cast in a lead role.

The FBI is investigating after a baby's body was found under a bed in a dormitory at Riverside Indian School in Anadarko.

Mattie E. Pyle, of Shanoan Springs Residence Nursing Center in Chickasha, will celebrate 100 years of age on Thursday, November 5th.

October is National Head Start Awareness Month. The Washita Valley Community Action Council is the grantee for the local Head Start program in Grady and Caddo Counties.

Eight more witnesses took the stand Monday in day four of the Ronson Bush murder trial.

Turtle Rock Farm Retreat in Red Rock, Oklahoma will host a prairie dinner and concert on October 24, 2009 , to raise funds for Green Connection's support of the retreat; and to organize a 350-photograph in support of 350.org's October 24, 2009 International Day of Climate Action .

Black chips dotted Mary Bender's classroom like big drops of chocolate, giving circular contrast to the pale floor, the bookshelves and even the eraser holder.