Guthrie News

If you took a step onto South Independence near the post office Tuesday mid-afternoon, you might've found yourself immersed in a scene straight out of the 1950s.

Francis Parsons' "Cunne-Shote: Cherokee Chief" is part of the "Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations" exhibit that opens Saturday at the Gilcrease Museum.

"King of the Cowboys" - not Gene Autry, Roy Rogers or John Wayne, but Tom Mix bore this soubriquet.

I am spending this week in Oklahoma City at the annual meeting of Western Writers of America with trips planned to Express Ranches and Guthrie, Oklahoma, and of course to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

Oklahoma will start the work week out on a hot, dry note. The National Weather Service said an upper-level ridge of high pressure centered over the lower Mississippi Valley will build over Oklahoma this week, keeping the chance for thunderstorms very low.

At least 11 confirmed cases and six suspected cases have been reported at MDA camps in three states.

A mom and daughter hope the mini ponies translate to big business. Sheila Hall, who raises miniature horses, holds grandaughter Kellsey Bow, 5, as they pet one of her baby miniature horses last week at her ranch south of Guthrie.

It's kind of like having to try everything on your plate. At our house, you didn't have to ask for seconds but you did have to try whatever mom served.

Today's Southern Living Mama Blogger of the Week is Shannon of "Rocks In My Dryer ." Shannon is a "30-something mom" of four kids who hails from Arkansas and lives in Oklahoma.

ActressJessica Alba is apologizing to the people of Oklahoma City for defacing parts of the city by reportedly plastering posters of great white sharks on electrical boxes, a bridge and a United Way billboard.

A Guthrie soldier shot in the neck while serving in Iraq will be presented with a Purple Heart medal during a ceremony at the state Capitol.

A Logan County trial scheduled to begin Monday for an Edmond man charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of a Guthrie man has been postponed.

Establishing a sealed corridor in downtown Tulsa to stop freight trains from blowing their horns is taking much longer than expected, officials said.

About 120 members of the Oklahoma National Guard are back in their home state. Eighty soldiers with the 834th Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Company returned Sunday to Tulsa after an eight-month deployment in Iraq.

Twelve University of North Carolina students are headed to Oklahoma, where they will live in the Cherokee nation.

A sentencing hearing has been rescheduled for next month for a former student who planned a shooting on the Rogers State University campus.

The University of Central Oklahoma recently awarded Matthew Sutter of Edmond the prestigious Emerging Leader scholarship.

Children's imagination will take the wheel as families explore nearly 70 trucks, including an ambulance, fire truck and dump truck, during the MOMS Club of Edmond's Touch A Truck event Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University of Central Oklahoma parking lot, 100 North University Drive.

President Barack Obama says he needs to see how fast Afghanistan can be stabilized and led toward a more democratic government before deciding whether more troops are needed.

This is a list of animals that have been found and are at the Edmond Animal Shelter, at Interstate 35 and Covell in the Cross Timbers Municipal Complex.