Wewoka News

By Justin Lofton Staff Writer John Hargrave, the new President of East Central University, will be sleeping in the dorms this summer.

A new genre of music will be coming to the Cedar Street Blues and Jazz Festival when the award-winning Mikel and the Blood Washed Blues Band perform this year.

The National Championship Racing Association invades Outlaw Motor Speedway for the first time in the tracks history.

Itching to get out of town? Here are two unique places to go: Gene Autry and Wewoka.

The ninth annual Cedar Street Blues and Jazz Festival will be held in Wewoka on Saturday, June 27.

Sheriff's deputies say a suspect in a fatal pharmacy robbery in Oklahoma City has been arrested at a home in Wewoka in Seminole County.

Precision Petroleum Corp., Oklahoma City, has acquired an interest in Heath #1, a Hunton limestone well in Seminole County, Oklahoma, from an undisclosed seller for an undisclosed price.

Two Holdenville youngsters were severely injured while driving an ATV near Wewoka Wednesday.

Life's road home can take many turns. Some paths lead people astray, sending them in the wrong direction.

Seminole County is proposing a new 522 Emergency Management Services tax to keep ambulance services going and to cover the reduced amount of insurance money being reimbursed.

John R. Hargrave of Wewoka, a founder and managing partner of the Edmonds Cole Law Firm in Oklahoma City, was named president of East Central University Friday afternoon by the Board of Regents of the Regional University System of Oklahoma.

East Central University has chosen an ex-Wewoka mayor and the founder of an Oklahoma City law firm as its next president.

A librarian at Ft. Washakie School is developing a curriculum that she says shows similarities between the Nazi Holocaust that killed millions of Jews others and the U.S. government's treatment of American Indians.

Area students were presented with project awards for their entries in the 35th Annual East Central Oklahoma Region Science Fair held in the Raymond Harber Field House at Seminole State College.

A new robotic packaging system equipped with advanced vision technology is helping Commercial Brick Corp.

WEWOKA, Okla. Lottie Coody seeks the nomination for principal chief that could make her the first woman chief elected by the citizens of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma lawyers will offer free legal advice through a toll-free hotline Thursday, April 3, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The statewide hotline will be staffed by Oklahoma City and Tulsa attorneys.

Lottie Coody recently announced her candidacy for principal chief of the Seminole Nation, a bid that would make her the first woman elected by the citizens of the tribe if she wins this summer.

Two people died in a head-on collision in Seminole County Saturday. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Brad Stuteville said Vernon Casey, 70, Wewoka, was driving east on State Highway 9 in a 1970 Chevrolet pickup when the accident occurred.

Two people have died after a head-on collision on State Highway 9 in Seminole County.