Crowder News

"People have already given so much, I don't like to ask for more." But what Danny McKinney would like to ask for is a miracle.

A boil advisory issued for Narconon-Arrowhead remained in effect this morning, but it is has nothing to do with the city of McAlester.

At the Oct. 6 meeting of the Pittsburg County Genealogical and History Society, Thomas Purdin, assisted by Connie Masters, of the McAlester Archeological Society, provided a presentation entitled "Archaeology is not what you find, but what you find out." The four archaeological sites on the Illinois River they have been working are of ...

Law enforcement officers called to what was supposed to be a vacant mobile home in Crowder on Wednesday found it occupied - and a couple of methamphetamine labs inside as well.

By JAMES BEATY SENIOR EDITOR All regular precincts in the Crowder School District will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Tuesday for the Crowder school bond election, when voters will decide on a transportation issue.

Early in-person absentee ballot voting began today at the Pittsburg County Election Board office in advance of the Tuesday school bond election in Crowder.

The Crowder School District badly needs some new buses, says Superintendent David Jones.

A pregnant Muskogee woman was hit by a motorist traveling north on 32nd Street between McDonald's and Homeland at mid-afternoon Thursday.

Absences remained high at McAlester High School on Monday, even though the number of students missing classes had receded somewhat since last week.

McAlester Public Schools plan to give students and their parents an option regarding President Barrack Obama's planned speech to students across the nation on Tuesday.

Donalee Boatright, 78, of Krebs, died Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, at McAlester Regional Health Center.

Crowder Public Schools first day of the 2009-2010 school year is August 10. Buses will run and breakfast and lunch will be served.

Norma Ann Weeks, 73, of McAlester, died Friday, June 26, 2009, at a local nursing home.

Inez Vail Smith, 80, died Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Massey Cemetery in Crowder.

Summer is officially here and you may be looking for ways to beat the summer time heat.

The Pittsburg County Youth Advisory Board held a Youth Listening Conference Thursday at the Dr.

For Joe and Cayden Nowlin, the May 27 trip from Oklahoma to Ames, Iowa, was an odyssey to watch an odyssey.Cayden, 14, got to spend hours alone with his devoted dad and they both were looking forward to sister, Alyssa's, performance with her Haileyville, Okla., fifth- and sixth-grade drama group's performance of 'Odyssey of the Mind' in a world ...

The eighth grade class of Crowder Public Schools has chosen the top students from the class of 2009.

Pittsburg County commissioners have taken action which should lead to repairs on the Coal Creek Bridge between McAlester and Tannehill - but it's still expected to be several weeks before the repair work begins.