Poteau News

Drivers on along Poteau's main thoroughfare were delayed Wednesday during their morning cummute when several emergency services personnel responded to this two-vehicle accident at the corner of North Broadway and Wilson.

WISTER a ' Authorities are seeking help from the public in their investigation of a Wister womana TMs unsolved death.

Drivers on along Poteau's main thoroughfare were delayed Wednesday during their morning cummute when several emergency services personnel responded to this two-vehicle accident at the corner of North Broadway and Wilson.

Heavener dispatcher and reserve police officer Trena Nixon turned herself in to authorities on Friday and has been charged with with 21 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Officials in Oklahoma and New Jersey are asking for help in finding the person or persons responsible for the death of a woman whose body was found in LeFlore County last month.

Poteau firefighters had a busy Friday. A small grass and structural fire was extinguished early in the day at the home of Steve McCain after the wind got out of control while he was burning trash and grass.

Emma Satterfield and Trista Fassio play with a poodle puppy at Poteau Pets during a Boys and Girls Club field trip on Wednesday.

Friday morning at Tiger Truck was spent loading 50 vehicles onto semi-trucks for the US Air Force that are destined for Europe.

Dan Toney of LeFlore County is currently training police officers in Kirkuk, Iraq, on an ITAM - Police at the Kirkuk Oil Police Regional Training Center.

Bobbie McAuliffe is not one to sit back and watch the world go by without trying to make a difference.

A Stigler man arrested in connection with a bank robbery in Fort Smith, Ark., is also being looked at as a suspect in a recent bank robbery in McAlester.

OG&E recently began delivering 1,000 electric fans to agencies serving low-income and elderly citizens across its 30,000 square mile service area.

Authorities in Oklahoma and New Jersey are investigating the death last month of Jody Rilee-Wilson. Her body was discovered on May 8 in the area of Poteau Mountain near Heavener Runestone State Park.

You will never know what you might find when doing preservation to an older building.

Flag Day, the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777, was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30, 1916.

FORT SMITH, Ark. a ' Fort Smith police tracked a suspected bank robber through his mobile phone before he was arrested by authorities in Yell County.

Neil Brannon announced last week he plans to run for the Oklahoma Senate District No.

POTEAU a ' A Ten Commandments monument that had been planned on the Le Flore County Courthouse lawn may instead be built on private property.

An eastern Oklahoma truck manufacturer that opened last year has been awarded an $11 million contract to make vehicles for the U.S. Air Force as part of the economic stimulus package.

A bear family's excursion across a scenic highway in LeFlore County led to a motorcycle accident that injured two people Wednesday morning, authorities said.