Locust Grove News

Christian Matthew Musteen, an absent without leave soldier from Fort Bragg, N.C. has been formally charged with kidnapping, attempted rape and knowingly concealing stolen property by District Attorney Gene Haines.A Musteen was arrested on Tuesday, Nov.

The teen accused of holding a Locust Grove motel clerk hostage will have his first day in court on Wednesday.

Locust Grove seniors will still be able to use the nutrition center thanks to the efforts of local citizens.

A man who was wanted in the shooting deaths of four people who were found in a burning house Nov.

A man was arrested Tuesday morning after taking a night clerk hostage at the Best Western hotel in Locust Grove.

Approving repairs and purchases for the water plant were high priorities at the Locust Grove regular monthly public works authority meeting Monday.

Police have identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of four people whose bodies were left in a burning Oklahoma City house.

A Locust Grove man died Tuesday afternoon at the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Mayes County, two miles south of Locust Grove.

Two men were killed in separate rollover crashes Tuesday in Mayes and Kay counties, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Darrell Yoder, commissioner for Mayes County District 2, is looking for a new engineering firm.

Community Action Resource & Development is seeing the closure of two Mayes County senior nutrition sites.

A state agency that helped investigate an outbreak of illness among Locust Grove restaurant customers stemming from the bacteria E. coli says in a new report that private-well users in the vicinity of the town shouldn't drink the water from those wells.

Locust Grove senior Steven Clifton already has his future mapped out. After attending the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Cadet Lawman Academy this summer, Clifton plans to become an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer after graduating from college.

Things may be looking up for the geothermal heating and air system at Mayes County Courthouse.

A date for the Angel Tree Poker Run has been set and organizers are gearing up for the event that will benefit the Locust Grove First United Methodist Church Angel Tree Project.

Condemnation hearings, adding a final member to the flood plain board and changing the date of the regular monthly meeting were all items on the Town of Locust Grove meeting, Monday, Oct.

The Fort Gibson Board of Trustees renewed Town Administrator Kathryn Carson's contract and gave her a 3 percent cost of living raise at its meeting Oct.

A Pryor man and a Mayes County deputy were injured after the vehicles they were driving collided as the deputy attempted to pass the other driver.

A Pryor industrial plant is loaning a water filtration system to Locust Grove. Norit Americas Inc.

A soulful, classy singer and songwriter, Mica Roberts was born on a farm near the small town of Locust Grove, OK, which is situated some 50 miles east of Tulsa.