Tonkawa News

Today and tomorrow, cooks across northeastern Oklahoma are striving to get the perfect family feast together for Thanksgiving.

With more than $135 million in federal stimulus money awarded to them, Oklahoma's Indian tribes are hastily developing projects ranging from housing construction to Head Start programs.

Two men were killed in separate rollover crashes Tuesday in Mayes and Kay counties, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

A Tonkawa man has been killed in a one-car crash near Ponca City. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 36-year-old Matthew Scott died in the accident less than a mile west of Ponca City about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash in Kay County. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol identified the victim of Saturday's crash as Isabel Martinez, 28, of Wichita, Kan.

A Kansas man died when his truck ran off a highway south of Tonkawa on Saturday morning.

Few visible traces remain of many of the Oklahoma camps that once housed prisoners of war during World War II.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Sen. Randy Brogdon was hosted at two events in Enid on Oct.

The Deer Creek-Lamont Public Schools PTO carnival is scheduled for today. The meal sponsored by Chikaskia Masonic Lodge 109 of Blackwell will be baked potato and Frito chili pie and will start at 5:30 p.m. in the Deer Creek cafeteria.

Midwest Mustang Muscle Car Club and Scooters will host a car show Saturday to benefit Toys for Tots.

Enid High School Alumni Association and Enid Public Schools will host a public ceremony celebrating completion of EHS Alumni Association's first Academic Excellence Project.

"Quilting Made Easy," a Northern Oklahoma College community enrichment course starts Tuesday, Oct.

The Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa chapter of Young Democrats of America is sponsoring a screening of the 2007 documentary a oeSicko,a about the American health care industry, Tuesday, Oct.

Katie Carter of Guymon was named Miss Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa 2010 at the dual Miss NOC Tonkawa-Miss NOC Enid Scholarship Pageant Oct.

Six Northern Oklahoma College Enid coeds will vie Tuesday for the title of Miss NOC Enid 2010 at the dual Miss Northern Oklahoma College Enid and Miss Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa Scholarship Pageant.

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.

Two Kansas residents were killed when their pickup truck collided with another truck in Kay County.

Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid is hosting an Applebee's flapjack fundraiser for United Way of Enid and Northwest Okla-homa on Oct.

OKLAHOMA CITY A U.S. Marine hero on Iwo Jima during World War II. A farm boy from Tonkawa who rose to become the state's first Republican governor and a U.S. senator.

" Former Governor and U.S. Sen. Henry L. Bellmon died Tuesday morning in Enid as a result of complications from Parkinson's disease.