Panama News

From left, Poteau Mayor Jeff Shockley, Jodi Cox, former OU kicker Uwe von Schamann and Poteau City Clerk Cindy Pollard teamed up against some of the better golfers in the Poteau area and hit the links at Wolf Creek Golf Club for the annual Poteau Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament.

By Jenny Huggins News Reporter Nightmare neighborhood. On May 21 LeFlore County Deputy John Farmer was called a domestic dispute along with Panama Police Officer Eddie Seaton, Shady Point Police Officer Chris Ford and Bokoshe Police Officer Richard Cooper.

Friday's storm moved quickly through northern LeFlore County before wielding its wrath on Arkansas.

New York, NY, June 11, 2009 -- Central National Bank of Poteau has recently deployed Edcomm Bankera s Academya s bank training solution, Bankera s Academy Unlimited.

By Laura Young, Managing Editor The body of Joe Neff was discovered by two fishermen Sunday evening.

This crash happened Thursday afternoon on US Highway 59 at Smith Street in Shady Point when the pickup hit the parked tractor trailer on the southbound side at about 3:45 p.m. The driver was pinned for about 15 minutes until freed by the Panama Rescue Unit.

Thoughts were aired, but that still didn't clear the air in Bokoshe, population 450.

A group will meet today in Bokoshe to discuss their health and environmental concerns.

Shady Point, Panama and Poteau firefighters were called to the scene of a trailer house on fire on Lewis Street in Shady Point.

AES, which operates a coal-fired power plant at Shady Point south of Sallisaw on U.S. Highway 59, has withdrawn its application for an air permit application from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental ...

Global power giant AES has dropped its air permit application to build a second Shady Point coal-fired generating plant in southeastern Oklahoma, company spokesman Lundy Kiger said Tuesday afternoon in a news ...

A new coal-fired power plant near Poteau is debated. Heavener resident Rick Ford asks a question during a meeting Thursday about safety concerns with the building of a second coal-fired plant near Poteau.

The Center for Energy Matters will host an educational and public health meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sallisaw Civic Center.

Donna Jean Donathan, 73, of Fanshawe, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, at Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center in Poteau.

A citizen's group is worried that Tulsa's air quality could suffer if 1 of the world's largest power providers builds a second coal-fired plant in eastern Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY Harlan Hentges, an Edmond attorney, has helped numerous farmers and ranchers protect their land in eminent domain cases.

Opponents are lining up to fight a proposed coal-fired power plant near Panama in eastern Oklahoma.

Opponents are lining up to fight a proposed coal-fired power plant near Panama in eastern Oklahoma.