McAlester News

On Wednesday, a Pittsburg County judge is expected to set a trial date for 43-year-old Richard Turpin.

McALESTER a ' A McAlester man accused of sexually abusing a teenager is scheduled to be formally arraigned next week.

It takes a lot to keep a business thriving for 40 years. Sometimes it helps to make it a family project.

A man accused of committing child sexual abuse while on probation is set to be in Pittsburg County District Court on Wednesday.

After an eight-month investigation, a cattle theft case in Pittsburg County, Okla., is finally closed after a rodeo bullfighter pled guilty to felony embezzlement of cattle.

A four-time world champion rodeo clown has been sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution for helping abscond with 300 head of cattle.

The heat will build across parts of Oklahoma on Thursday, but forecasters say slightly cooler temperatures and rain won't be far away.

David Fowler, historical interpreter of the Fort Gibson Historical Site will be speaking at the McAlester Archeological Society's monthly meeting on July 9 at Krebs City Hall at 5 E. Washington in Krebs.

They'll be issuing some checks at City Hall. Following a closed-door session during a special meeting on Monday night, the city council reconvened in open session and took action that will result in a 4 percent across-the-board pay raise for members of the firefighters' union.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has scheduled a clemency hearing for a 32-year-old death row inmate facing execution for the deaths of two men in southern Oklahoma.

A man police say was homeless, Denny Billy, 65, was found dead Saturday in a grassy area near the W.E. Allford underpass at the east end of Wade Watts Boulavard.

McAlester police are awaiting the results of an autopsy on the body of a man who was found dead in a grassy area.

Barbara Smitherman, of McAlester, is concerned about McAlester. She was prompted to write a letter to McAlester Mayor Kevin Priddle because she was concerned when she read the story the June 9 article in the McAlester News-Capital of graves being overturned and broken at Oak Hill cemetery in McAlester.

By JAMES BEATY SENIOR EDITOR Savanna resident Orben Deaton feels like a lucky man today - even if a truck smashed through a building he owns and missed him by inches.

An injury accident in Bache sent four Pittsburg County residents to the hospital on Monday night.

Two people who had been arrested in a brutal kidnapping and attack near Longtown in October have been sentenced for their parts in the assault.

Oklahoma will start the work week out on a hot, dry note. The National Weather Service said an upper-level ridge of high pressure centered over the lower Mississippi Valley will build over Oklahoma this week, keeping the chance for thunderstorms very low.

The city council plans to hold a special meeting on Tuesday to conduct a public hearing on a financing the construction of a new building - with hopes of bringing a firearms manufacturer to McAlester.

Rodeo bull fighter and entertainer Michael Eugene Matt has pleaded guilty for his part in an alleged cattle rustling scheme at a McAlester area ranch.

Sheriff's Dep. Larry Cook ordered the Pittsburg County Courthouse evacuated this afternoon after someone called a bomb threat into District 18 District Judge Thomas Bartheld's office.