Cushing News

Crude oil futures hit the highest level in more than 14 months Wednesday, even as a government report showed a larger-than-anticipated buildup in oil and fuel supplies.

Kalyn Batchelor of Neches and Mark Pickard of Cushing were married Oct. 24 at Love's Lookout of Jacksonville.

Holiday travelers can expect gasoline prices to remain steady through the weekend.

Energy prices are ending the year on an upswing with large storms, falling supplies, a weak dollar and a slightly better employment picture sending futures higher.

U.S. refiners in the Midwest may see crude costs rise after Suncor Energy Inc . said its oil sands production may decline as much as 4.2 million barrels while an Alberta upgrader is repaired.

Oil fell for the ninth consecutive day on Monday, easing further below $70 a barrel as weak fuel demand overshadowed gains in equity markets and a lower dollar.

Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. today announced that the trading symbol for its common units will be changed to "BKEP" effective at the open of business on December 11, 2009 and that its common units will continue to trade on the Pink Sheets.

Oil prices tumbled to a two-month low of 70 U.S. dollars on Wednesday after a buildup in fuel inventories exacerbated investors' concerns about weak demand.

Oil rose above $71 a barrel on Thursday, recovering after falling more than 2 percent in the previous session, supported by a weaker dollar and rising equities.

Family, friends and community members believe a man who died in a fire early Tuesday morning was a local business owner.

The Lincoln County prosecutor says a woman was justified when she shot and killed a man who broke into her home near Cushing.

Share + Dec 9, 2009 4:28 pm US/Eastern CUSHING, Okla. 1 of 1 Billy Riley, 53, was shot and killed after he broke into an Oklahoma woman's home on Friday, Dec.

The Oklahoma State Medical Examiners Office in Oklahoma City is trying to identify a person who died in a fire early Tuesday morning in the east 1400 block of North Street in Cushing.

Family and friends are remembering two teens killed in a fiery crash last week. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers said Ashley Roe, 18, and Courtney Marcum, 17, ran off a roadway near Cushing last Thursday.

A massive cleanup of an abandoned refinery in Cushing is expected to begin next month.

Authorities are using dental records to identify two people who were killed in a fiery car crash Thursday afternoon in Payne County.

A fiery one-car crash in Payne County has left two people dead. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the two died just after 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the accident just southwest of Cushing.

Oil prices fell for a third consecutive day on Friday, to below $76 a barrel, under pressure from high levels of inventories and nervousness ahead of the latest employment data from the world's top energy consumer, the United States.

Crude futures fell Wednesday for the first session in three after government data showed U.S. crude inventories rose last week as demand remained weak.

Southeast Directional Drilling, Casa Grande, Ariz., recently completed 15 bores over five months totaling more than 32,600 ft as part of the ongoing $12 billion Keystone Pipeline project that will bring crude oil down from Canada to Illinois and Oklahoma.