Elk City News

Snow with a mixture of sleet and light freezing rain is expected to move through Oklahoma Sunday night and continue early Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

Troopers say unsafe speed is to blame for a one-car crash that killed a driver in western Oklahoma.

The Southwest Power Pool's board of directors has approved $1.7 billion worth of transmission projects, including $300 million in new power lines for Oklahoma's power grid.

About $382 million worth of new transmission lines and related equipment are expected to be built in Oklahoma, part of about $1.7 billion worth of electrical grid improvements approved this week by the Southwest Power Pool.

Communications have been modernized, utility outage response has improved and emergency response officials in north-central Oklahoma are better prepared for natural disasters 10 years after one of the worst ice storms in state history crippled the region.

Emergency officials in north-central Oklahoma have streamlined communications, improved utility outage response and better prepared themselves for natural disasters after 1 of the worst ice storms in state history crippled the region a decade ago.

Diptiben Mistry was a 20-year-old college student in India when she married Himansu Udwadia, then 24, who was working as an accountant in the United States.