Sparks News

It's really only Oklahoma but at least it seems like Bizarro world. Two Democrats in the state Legislature have introduced a bill that would cut taxes on guns.

The Senate bill would set a sales-tax-free weekend for handguns, rifles and shotguns.

Businesses such as Tri-County Electric participated in the event. Santa Clause and some of his elves even made an appearance.

KATIE MARTIRE/GDH Senior Choir members entertained the crowd at Tuesday's Christmas Choir Concert with "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The students had a skit prepared to fool the audience.

LEE COLEMAN/GDH Pheasant hunting season was in full swing last weekend in Guymon.

Sheriff Chuck Mangion says 57-year-old Donna Jackson shot Billy Dean Riley of Sparks after Riley threw a patio chair through a glass door and entered her home near Cushing about 12:45 a.m. Friday.

A Gore woman was listed in stable condition Thursday evening after a motorcycle crash on Swan Road north of Roland.

A Mississippi man was listed in stable condition in a Fort Smith, Ark. hospital Thursday after a semi ran off the road on Interstate 40.

A Mississippi man was injured Thursday when the tractor-trailer rig he was in overturned on Interstate 40, states an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.

The George M. Murrell Home in Park Hill has been known for years as a haunted location.

An Arkoma woman was in good condition Monday after being injured Saturday in an accident in Sequoyah County.

A gasoline pump was damaged Wednesday afternoon at a Tahlequah convenience store when a customer drove away with the nozzle of the pump still in his gas tank.

Paula Abdul is back in the judge's seat - but not on the "American Idol" stage. Abdul cameos in Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva" as a gavel-banging, glammed-up version of herself in a dream sequence set in a Los Angeles courtroom.

Two Muldrow men remained hospitalized Monday afternoon after the truck they were riding in crashed into an embankment south of Roland early Sunday morning.

Three people were injured after two separate crashes in Sequoyah County, according to Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

A Sparks man was burned Tuesday evening while trying to remove a gas can that was close to a generator on fire.

A man from Sparks, a town in Lincoln County, is in critical condition in Hillcrest Burn Center in Tulsa after an accident with a gas can.

Tony Ward looks across his 86-acre spread and can hardly believe his eyes. His land, once bountiful with hay fields and grazing livestock, has been transformed in the past decade into a summer hot spot for bikers from across the U.S. In June, upwards of 10,000 bikers come to his place to drink a few beers, laugh, listen to live music and celebrate ...

SPARKS a ' An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale was recorded Sunday near Sparks in Lincoln County.