Ponca City News

As we all have heard, the country is in a recession which is leading to everyone cutting expenses including state government.

Woodward Police detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred in the 2900 block of Edgewood Drive Tuesday afternoon.

Meghan Fossey , an OSU student, is an actress in a oeThe Erased,a OSU graduate and filmmaker Liz Tabisha s latest project.

Jordan Carter was chosen first-place winner of the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association's Junior Auditions, Grades 5-6 division, held at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant Oct.

Tonkawas photographed by Rhinehart in 1898. Standing L-R, Winnie Richards, John Rush Buffalo, William Stevens, John Allen, and Mary Richards.

Members of the Shidler Fire Department are nothing if not tenacious. It took them four years of selling hamburgers at local events, holding raffles and other ways but they finally raised $100,000 for a new ambulance.

Poteau Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Karen Wages and Chamber President Traci Barnes attended the 2009 Governor's Tourism Conference in Tulsa earlier this week.

Area lawmakers discussed the state's financial situation Thursday with members of Oklahoma Public Employees Association.

Today, Dawena Pappan, 39, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, pled guilty before United States District Judge Robin Cauthron to embezzling funds from the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

An entire family, including a woman who works for Oklahoma's Office of Juvenile Affairs, was charged Tuesday with growing marijuana.

Police say a brawl involving about 30 people left the Cowboy Travel Plaza off Interstate 35 damaged.

An Oklahoma woman that checked into a hospital under someone else's name and gave birth has been sentenced to a five year suspended sentence in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

Giving employees the opportunity to choose a traditional health insurance policy with a supplement instead of a workers compensation policy could increase benefits while saving money, state lawmakers were told last week.

TULSA AIA Eastern Oklahoma, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, presented two Honor Awards at its inaugural design awards program.

Eric Alen Simpson was born on August 9, 1965 in Ponca City. He attended Tonkawa schools and graduated in 1984 then attended NOC and OSU.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers say a "sleepy" Ponca City man was injured after rolling his vehicle three times Saturday morning.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Federal prosecutors say a 37-year-old Ponca City man tried to solicit a kickback in connection with the awarding of a security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan.

Two Kansas residents were killed near Tonkawa in a Monday afternoon crash. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says it happened at about 2:20 p.m. at U.S. 60 and Interstate 35.

" In an effort to bring attention and awareness to breast cancer, Osage Million Dollar Elm casinos in Tulsa, Skiatook and Ponca City are promoting "Go Pink" for Breast Cancer Awareness Month during October.

One thing that made the back-breaking, finger-numbing work of picking cotton worthwhile to Joyce Carol Thomas was the time when the stories would start.