Briggs News

An Oklahoma man was taken by helicopter to a Tulsa hospital after suffering injuries from a gas explosion at his home near Tahlequah early Sunday, authorities said.

One day later, and it still has people talking. Briggs is the kind of place where neighbors live far away, but they're still impacted by everything that happens in town.

Cherokee County Sheriff's office say a man was injured Saturday evening because of a gas explosion.

After nearly a decade of public missteps, internal turmoil and lawsuits challenging how the Oklahoma Department of Human Services handled the care and security of the children in its custody, a ballot issue in November proposes to take a wrecking ball to how the 7,000-employee agency is structured.