Pittsburg News

Nothing would make an Indianola couple happier than to have their missing adult son home for Thanksgiving.

A ticket sold in Oklahoma for Saturday's Powerball game is worth 32.8-million dollars.

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 following felony cases were decided in Pittsburg County District Court Sept.

Pittsburg County District Attorney Jim Bob Miller has agreed not to seek re-election as part of a deal involving misconduct allegations against his office.

Pittsburg County District Attorney Jim Bob Miller has entered a deferred prosecution agreement and will not seek reelection, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office said Thursday.

A Pittsburg County grand jury investigating new allegations against a convicted child rapist has issued an indictment in the case.

A convicted child rapist appeared at the courthouse where a Pittsburg County grand jury is investigating new allegations of sex crimes against him.

A grand jury investigation will get under way in McAlester this week into alleged crimes by a convicted child rapist.

Summer is not usually the time to think about winter storms, but grants are available now to Oklahoma communities impacted by ice storms that devastated much of the eastern part of the state in January 2009.

Aug. 13--"It's really beginning to feel like home," Linda Burns, Krebs, said of the new house she moved into June 12.

Authorities say the Pittsburg County Courthouse was evacuated because someone called a bomb threat into the office of a judge.

There has been plenty of talk around town in the past week or so about the David Harold Earls rape case and how the local justice system handled the case.

A Haskell County sheriff's deputy reported a brief tornado touchdown in the western part of the county.

Two state House members are upset with a Pittsburg County judge's decision to approve a one-year prison sentence for a man convicted of raping a 4-year-old girl.

Two people are in jail Wednesday, accused of starving three horses. A Pittsburg County Sheriff's deputy found the horses while he was serving an arrest warrant on another charge at a home in Ashland.

Tulsa's Turner Park Pool will be open this summer. The city had not planned to open that pool, but sponsors and the neighborhood association pitched in with the necessary money.

At this writing , we are well into the last two weeks of the session with approximately 350 bills remaining for consideration, which is a monumental task.

A state grand jury is investigating whether the district attorney from McAlester improperly subpoenaed records from an Internet site that posted critical comments of him.

Tulsa Public Schools officials notified FOX23, an employee at Jackson Elementary is the confirmed case of swine flu in Tulsa County.