Crowder News

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.

The first shot of federal stimulus money is on its way to the Pittsburg County commissioners - with the money slated for projects in the Crowder and Quinton areas.

A Springer man has died after being thrown from his pickup during a one-car crash in Carter County.

With fire danger remaining high, Pittsburg County's burn ban has been reinstated for another seven days.

Pittsburg County voters joined with the majority of voters in 12 other counties to elect Larry Culwell, of Bokoshe, to a seat on the school board for the Kiamichi Technology Center Zone 2, according to ...

Jim Gregory heard the ambulance. He also saw the semi-truck, and he knew the instant beforehand that a collision was unavoidable.

January tax collections from November sales were mixed among area towns as compared with last year, with McAlester's falling to $1.32 million this year compared with $1.38 million a year ago.

Any Pittsburg County residents who are ready to start burning those limbs and branches that snapped off during last week's ice storm might want to wait.

Slick roads made for hazardous driving conditions in Pittsburg County as a winter storm moved through the area.

A group of young musicians from Crowder will be appearing at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Plumb Theatre, five and one-half miles east of Eufaula on Oklahoma 9. The Crowder High School Revue is a show band and they ...

A Crowder woman has been hospitalized following a single-vehicle accident. Deborah Nohmer, 51, was transported by medical helicopter to St.

Here is the initial report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Look for more details in Monday's edition of the McAlester News-Capital: A PERSONAL INJURY COLLISION OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 2020 HOURS ON 01-10-09 ...

December sales tax revenue collected from McAlester shoppers in October rose more than 5 percent over the previous month and well out-paced last year's sales by more than 16.4 percent, according to data ...