McAlester News

A 14-year-old McAlester boy was killed after being ejected from a car driven by his father at about 7:37 a.m. Saturday.

A teenager who had been reported as a missing person by her father in Texas is OK, according to McAlester Campus police.

The McAlester City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to fund an executive search to fill the city manager's post.

A boil advisory issued for Narconon-Arrowhead remained in effect this morning, but it is has nothing to do with the city of McAlester.

The Haywood Public Schools buildings were constructed in 1992 and there have been no major renovations since then, said Haywood School Superintendent Chad Graham.

Paying bills on-line is a convenience of which many are taking full advantage. Consumers can pay their telephone, cable or satellite and utilities bills without ever leaving their home office or living room.

After nearly two weeks of combing the heavily wooded Sans Bois Mountain area in southeast Oklahoma, the Latimer County Sheriff's Office on Friday called off its ground search for a missing Eufaula family.

"I'm on another chapter in my long life." Robert Hill, 61, has decided to look at his recent brush with death as a wake-up call, and a new beginning.

In this reader photo from Oct. 16., the 2009-10 McAlester Football Homecoming court is shown at Hook Eales Stadium.

Heavy rainfall in recent weeks is being blamed for sewage backups into McAlester homes and businesses, prompting city officials to recommend backflow prevention devices be installed in older buildings.

A search for a missing Eufaula-area family is now getting assistance from a national group which tries to help locate missing children.

Colorful leis and large floral hair clips and the Caribbean beat of a steel drum band set the scene for Thursday's pink ribbon luncheon.

McAlester's Chamber of Commerce has been busy, promoting city industries and businesses to the community and the world.

William F. "Bill" Di Silvestro, 75, of McAlester, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at McAlester Regional Health Center.

A mission trip to help rebuild lives in New Orleans offered the first stepping stone to building a home for someone desperately in need right here in Oklahoma.

Dewey Eldon Nave, 77, formerly of McAlester, died from cancer on Friday, Oct. 9, in Brunswick, Ga.

We see the sign "Happy Days are Here Again." And then the pink Cadillac. Curiosity gets the best of us, so we turn in to the Happy Days Hotel on Hwy.

Leona Ellis noted the work being done by a small army of volunteers at the West Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in McAlester, where she's a member of the congregation.

A Stigler man pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of bank robbery in federal court in Muskogee.

MUSKOGEE a ' Larry Eugene Walden, 57, of Stigler, pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery Thursday in U.S. District Court in Muskogee.