Shady Point News

By Jenny Huggins News Reporter Nightmare neighborhood. On May 21 LeFlore County Deputy John Farmer was called a domestic dispute along with Panama Police Officer Eddie Seaton, Shady Point Police Officer Chris Ford and Bokoshe Police Officer Richard Cooper.

The first death came early on New Year's Day. Police tape remains near a makeshift memorial outside Joe Neff's popular Long Branch Saloon.

Le Flore County investigators have had to deal with six homicide cases this year, a baffling number considering the county has about 50,000 residents.

This crash happened Thursday afternoon on US Highway 59 at Smith Street in Shady Point when the pickup hit the parked tractor trailer on the southbound side at about 3:45 p.m. The driver was pinned for about 15 minutes until freed by the Panama Rescue Unit.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Donnie Long and Crime Scene Agent Jenny Virden display their ultraviolet light to Hodgen eighth-graders Tasha Janway, Sarah Shaffer and Sarai Terry during career day at Pansy Kidd Middle School in Poteau.

Thoughts were aired, but that still didn't clear the air in Bokoshe, population 450.

More than 500 children of all ages registered for the City Wide Easter Egg Hunt held Saturday at Twyman Park.

A group will meet today in Bokoshe to discuss their health and environmental concerns.

Shady Point, Panama and Poteau firefighters were called to the scene of a trailer house on fire on Lewis Street in Shady Point.

Rosemary Crawford, with the Oklahoma City-based Center for Energy Matters, will address Sustainable Shawnee Thursday, Feb.

AES, which operates a coal-fired power plant at Shady Point south of Sallisaw on U.S. Highway 59, has withdrawn its application for an air permit application from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental ...

Global power giant AES has dropped its air permit application to build a second Shady Point coal-fired generating plant in southeastern Oklahoma, company spokesman Lundy Kiger said Tuesday afternoon in a news ...

An effort to warn residents about the harmful effects of a second coal-fired power plant at the AES Corp.'s Shady Point facility was fueled by demands to know the local impact on public health that the existing ...

The Center for Energy Matters will host an educational and public health meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sallisaw Civic Center.

A citizen's group is worried that Tulsa's air quality could suffer if 1 of the world's largest power providers builds a second coal-fired plant in eastern Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY Harlan Hentges, an Edmond attorney, has helped numerous farmers and ranchers protect their land in eminent domain cases.

Gwenda Taylor, Debra Gentry and Cissy Carden of Women Crisis Services were presented with a check in the amount of $3,000 from Lundy Kiger and several of the AES Shady Point plant.

Opponents are lining up to fight a proposed coal-fired power plant near Panama in eastern Oklahoma.

Opponents are lining up to fight a proposed coal-fired power plant near Panama in eastern Oklahoma.