Ponca City News

PONCA CITY a ' Two of four inmates who escaped from the Kay County Jail have been captured in Missouri.

Authorities are looking for four men who escaped from the Kay County Jail in Newkirk early Thursday, deputies confirmed.

Comic Paula Poundstone thinks she has swine flu. She knows because she's checked the list of symptoms.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the search will resume today for a Ponca City man who disappeared while swimming in a flooded rock quarry.

From the Oklahoma Highway Patrol: We were out there and will update in this week's Bigheart Times.

A couple of Ponca City residents were treated and released following a crash on U.S. 60 and S.H. 18 in Osage County a 2 p.m. Saturday.

A Ponca City man was seriously injured Friday night in a crash east of Hugo, in Choctaw County.

Gustafer Yellowgold is hot and something from out of this world, but this fictional little creature from the sun is more mellow these days.

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Summer's Hot Reads - Schemes & Dreams & Flying Machines and World War II's 'Rosie the Riveters' Tuesday June 16, 2009 With each passing Memorial Day we're reminded that the veterans of World War II, the "greatest generation," are slowly fading into history.

Red dirt, rockabilly, and western swing with Oklahoma ties are on tap this summer at Cain's Ballroom : Wanda Jackson , the Queen of Rockabilly, from Maud, Oklahoma, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in April .

The Tulsa World studied the statements, which the 149 state legislators must submit to the state Ethics Commission by May 15 each year.

THUMBS UP When the Oklahoma skies darken, the wind picks up and the clouds begin to swirl, everyone who lives here knows to keep an ear out for the mournful wail of storm sirens.

A Ponca City mana s ankle was pierced by a gear shift Saturday following a crash on his 2001 Yamaha motorcycle.

Authorities say a Blackwell man was killed when his car collided with a pickup truck on U.S. 177 in Noble County.

A 51-year-old man was killed in a head-on crash south of Ponca City. Police said a car and truck hit each other along Highway 177 on the Salt Fork Bridge after one of the drivers crossed the center line.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 51-year-old Ricky Coursey sustained multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident about 12:25 p.m. Friday near Ponca City.

Authorities say a Ponca City man was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Oklahoma 15 in Pawnee County.

A Ponca City man was injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon south and west of Newkirk.

The excellent article on red cedars deserves comment. Several years ago Mike Palmer, a forestry professor at Oklahoma State University, published a paper stating that about 10.5 million acres of Oklahoma were infested by eastern red cedar.