Henryetta News

"It was a complete surprise to me," said Burlene Wilson, McAlester, of her nomination and selection to be the first recipient of the newly-established "Caught Caring" award at the Southeast Oklahoma District Missions Convention of the Church of the Nazarene in Henryetta this past summer.

Two Oklahoma foster parents are recovering after being attacked by their foster children, police said.

Two teenage girls have been charged in Woodward County with trying to kill their foster parents.

Two teen girls have been charged in connection with a plot to kill their foster parents.

The Prue and Gore school districts went to four-day school weeks as a way to make up for cuts in state aid, and now other districts are studying the idea as they attempt to shore up their cash-strapped budgets.

A New Jersey congressman has asked Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Dan Boren to help find out why autopsy results still haven't been released for a woman who was found dead in May at an Oklahoma state park.

Alfred Williamson, 85, of Henryetta, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, in McAlester. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Rogers Funeral Home Chapel.

An 8-year-old boy Bixby died Monday afternoon in a McIntosh County traffic accident, authorities said.

A $23 million Armed Forces Reserve Center should be open on the west side of Davis Field next summer, officials said Tuesday.

Some residents and businesses are without long distance phone service today in Okmulgee, Henryetta and Okemah.

Dan Arnett of Henryetta, a candidate for the U.S. Representative seat held by Dan Boren, will hold a town hall meeting outside Boren's office here Monday.

Thousands of people were unable to file for unemployment benefits online Sunday and Monday because of computer problems at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission.

An Oklahoma school superintendent is charged with a sex crime against a five-year-old relative.

Bruce Lynn Shelley, a former librarian and administrator at several Oklahoma schools including Pocola where he served as the superintendent, was arrested and charged with rape by instrumentation of a minor in the first degree on Monday, July 13, for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old child.

The body of a Henryetta sailor killed in Afghanistan earlier this month has returned to Oklahoma.

Iraq: As of Tuesday, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The military and his family have both released statements concerning how State Road native Mark Garner died in service to his country this week in Afghanistan.

The body of Navy Petty Officer Second Class Tony Randolph of Henryetta is being returned home.

Friends of 21-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Tony Randolph of Henryetta say he was killed Monday while serving in Afghanistan.

As of Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at least 646 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.