Piedmont News

A cell tower was bent over after a storm Monday with high winds, hail and heavy rain struck parts of Oklahoma.

For one whole year, that quilt was at the Piedmont Service Center waiting to be found.

One year ago Thursday a tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma killed nine people, including two young brothers in Piedmont.

PIEDMONT, Okla. - On May 24, 2011 A tornadoes tore through our state; 10 people were killed, more than 200 injured.

Christina Byler and Elizabeth Andrade were first tied to the ring after fliers were put up in an upscale northeast Oklahoma City neighborhood where the alleged crimes were taking place.

Tornadoes roared through Canton, Chickasha, Newcastle, Dibble, Washington, Goldsby, El Reno, Guthrie and Piedmont.

Jessica Diane Biggs, 29, Piedmont, ended up in Baptist Hospital in OKC Wed. afternoon after a two-vehicle accident one mile south of Kingfisher Wednesday afternoon.

UPDATE 8:05 a.m. Piedmont has 50 power outages while there are 54 outages in Warr Acres , 72 outages in Bethany , and 121 outages in central Oklahoma City , the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.

An OG&E spokesperson says a snake slithered into a substation and knocked out power to 10,000 customers early Thursday morning.