Jones News

Josh Harlow, an account executive with Oklahoma City-based Jones Public Relations, needed to go over logistics and heavy details with a client last week.

Prison workers across Oklahoma who were denied a raise in a $7.1 billion budget deal say they feel trapped in the crossfire of a political dispute between the governor and the state's prison director over how much money the agency has available in several revolving accounts.

Officials at the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office said a deputy noticed a brake light was out and tried to pull over the suspect's car near S.E. 59th St.

About 61.3 percent of the votes cast for chairman by the 1,222 delegates attending the Oklahoma Republican State Convention went to Weston, who works for an investment advisory firm.

Deputies say 47-year-old Leslie Paul Jones was found dead in his cell. The Chelsea man was charged with several sex crimes including rape and incest.

Shane Farrell Thomas has become a pain in the backsides of Oklahoma County judges and court officials whose jurisdiction he refuses to recognize.

Oklahoma Corrections Department Director Justin Jones and board member Steve Burrage publicly clashed Thursday over whether staff members have been open with board members and state officials in discussing about $22 million contained in three agency revolving funds.

The United States Geological Survey recorded earthquakes of magnitudes 3.3, 2.7, and 2.8, two near Luther and one near Jones.

Students at South Jones High School held their final practice before heading to Chicago for the National Choir Competition.

Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law on Tuesday a measure that will give local school districts a role in determining whether the most profoundly disabled students have made enough progress to graduate from high school.

Yet again, it turns out, everything is exactly as everybody suspected and feared.

Researcher Dr. Patrick Gaffney received the Edward L. and Thelma Gaylord Prize for Scientific Achievement.

During the standoff, police closed off traffic in either direction on South Main and set up the S.W.A.T. staging area in the parking lot of the Central Tech vocational school.

Another small earthquake was recorded near the town of Jones, Okla., Friday afternoon, in what has shaped up to be a very seismic week for central Oklahoma.