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Rural residents complain about fireworks trash By FOSS FARRAR Staff Writer reporter@arkcity.net Rural Arkansas City area resident Warren Wing says he understands why people drive out to the country to set off fireworks on the Fourth of July.

T. Boone Pickens is ditching his plans for a giant wind farm in Texas and wants to build some smaller ones in other places, possibly including Kansas.Pickens said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News that he wouldnt build what had been billed as the worlds largest wind farm a 1,000-megawatt project in Pampa, Texas because of problems in ...

Oklahoma radar is shown at 12:02 p.m. Saturday, July 4. The News On 6 TULSA, OK -- Weather discussion by Meteorologist Dick Faurot: Complicated forecast for today and tonight.

Many areas of Central and South Central Kansas saw some beneficial rainfall overnight.

Feist Publications has filed suit against Yellow Book Sales and Distribution, the company that bought Feist's assets in 2004.

By JAMES BEATY SENIOR EDITOR Attorneys at Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office were checking state statutes early today to determine whether the state has laws on the books allowing for civil confinement of sex offenders.

More triple-digit heat is in Oklahoma's forecast, but a cold front will bring showers and cooler temperatures tonight and tomorrow.

As custom wheat harvesters move into the southern edge of Kansas this week, they are feeling a financial pinch.

Barge shipping at the Port of Catoosa was 50 percent lower in May compared to April due to the current economic recession and excessive river flows along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.

Sager Creek Arts Center recently announced that watercolorist Karen Frye will be teaching classes at the Center.

It will be a soggy start to the week for parts of the Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

The rounds of severe storms for portions of the southern Plains and the South are not finished yet.

After speaking on a local radio station the day after Dr. George Tiller was shot dead inside a Kansas church, the head of Planned Parenthood in Tulsa got a telephone call from a woman who said she is a conservative Christian.

A potentially serious round of severe storms and tornadoes is likely in the Plains, with the Storm Prediction Center reporting that "a significant regional severe weather outbreak is expected over parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri today into tonight." Tornado threat in Plains - The Storm Prediction Center has issued a "moderate" risk for ...

A slight chance of showers or storms will continue today. Highs in the upper 80s will be likely with a breezy south wind.

There is nothing like planning ahead. Nearly five years ago officials at Northeast Technology Center saw a need and began working on meeting it.

Although such anglers may be few, the season offers a special opportunity for outdoorsmen looking for a challenge.

Western Carolina University's Pride of the Mountains Marching Band is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Sudler Trophy, the nation's highest and most-coveted award for college and university marching bands.

As if farmers didn't already have enough problems, now Kansas custom cutters are saying they may not come into Oklahoma or Texas because of poor wheat conditions.

The Cherokee Nation will offer assistance this spring with applications for Certificate Degree of Indian Blood cards and citizenship in the Cherokee Nation at several field sites throughout the tribe's 14-county area.