Watonga News

WATONGA - For the first time in 25 years, a countywide election has ended in a dead heat.Incumbent Blaine County Sheriff Ricky Ainsworth and his opponent Tony Almaguer both finished with 451 votes in the ...

We encourage Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission members to quickly come up with a plan for repairs and upgrades at Roman Nose State Park.

WATONGA - Blaine County Sheriff Ricky Ainsworth, who lost by one vote in Tuesday's primary election, has asked for a recount.Ainsworth filed the $600 fee, and a recount is set for 1 p.m. Tuesday, said Jane ...

An Enid woman said a murder charge filed Wednesday in the 2005 disappearance of her son is "way overdue," but she is hopeful someone will come forward and tell her where her son's remains are.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

Seven people, three of them driving motorcycles, died in wrecks on state roads late Friday and early Saturday, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Norman police.

An Oklahoma district judge upheld a Garfield County jury's recommended sentence of life without parole for a 57-year-old drifter convicted in the murder of a 23-year-old Kingfisher woman in 2005.

Staff reports Many northwest Okla-homa towns are losing population or staying fairly steady, except for three notable exceptions.

It took a Garfield County jury less than an hour Monday to return a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for Jessie Floyd Johns, who was convicted of the first-degree murder of Amber Matthews in ...

A Garfield County jury has been ordered to return on Monday to decide whether a man it convicted of the 2005 death of a Kingfisher woman should pay for the crime with his life.

A former Hulbert police officer will spend the next two years on probation for having sex with a woman in the police department's break room Dec.

While many who end up in prison get out with more problems than they had, Prison is where Dream went to leave her problems behind.

A dozen witnesses testified Wednesday in the capital murder trial of Jessie Floyd Johns.