Quapaw News

A theft citation was dismissed against a Commerce woman accused of stealing a cheerleading uniform during last month's Picher school auction.

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Loaded down with ice chests and bottled water, a second, then a third, wave of emergency crews raced to the accident scene, where first-responders were giving out from heat and exhaustion.

Picher, the little town at the epicenter of the mine-ravaged Tar Creek Superfund site, is expected to cease operations on Sept.

PICHER a ' Sundaya TMs auction of items from the Picher school district raised about $20,000 for the Commerce and Quapaw school districts.

Most of the 1,000 people attending Sunday's auction of the Picher School District wanted to see who would buy the 500-pound concrete gorilla.

The concrete gorilla statue of the Picher-Cardin School District's mascot is among thousands of items the school will put up for auction.

Picher seniors graduated Friday night in a 23-minute ceremony that marked the end of 90 years of public education in Picher.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a fatal crash occurred when Curtis Hayden Wyatt, 26, of Quapaw, came over the top of a hill east of Miami and rear-ended a tractor.

In one of only two solo dates scheduled while on break from touring with the Eagles before heading to Europe, Don Henley will bring his solo show to Oklahoma on Saturday at the Downstream Casino Resort in Quapaw.

The Tony Hawk Foundation Board of Directors has announced its Spring 2009 skatepark grant awards.

Don Henley performs with the Eagles at the first official concert at the BOK Center in 2008.

Residents of Picher, Oklahoma say the storm passed just to the north of them. That didn't stop the town from feeling some of the storm's impacts.

High winds swept through Ottawa County early Friday, knocking out power to tens of thousands and taking off part of the Picher schools' gymnasium roof.

Thousands of Ottawa County residents had their power restored by late Saturday after high winds brought sizable outages the previous day, officials said.

Much of northern Ottawa County is without power this morning and several buildings were damaged after an early morning storm hit the area.

MIAMI, Okla. - The City Council on Monday night delayed action on agreements with the cities of Commerce and Quapaw that would allow the two towns to dump debris from demolished houses in the pit being used by Miami.

TULSA a ' Picher-Cardin Schools will graduate a final class of 11 next month, as the last residents leave an area of northeastern Oklahoma ravaged by decades of lead and zinc mining and a deadly tornado.

It's hard to imagine a better use of federal stimulus funding than ramped-up relocation and clean-up activities at Oklahoma's Tar Creek Superfund site.

Indian tribe buys Burggraf Tire Quapaw, Okla.-based Burggraf Corp. has a new owner: the Eastern Shawnee Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.