Wynnewood News

Five school board races in Garvin County ended up being contested races as the candidate filing period ended Wednesday evening.

With today's 5 p.m. deadline to file for school board positions, few races are shaping up for the districts scattered across Garvin County.

Stakes winner Waupaca has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2010 at C.L. and Ellen Caines' Caines Stallion Station near Wynnewood, Okla.

Tragedy struck during the weekend when a Pauls Valley area teenager was killed after falling off a moving vehicle.

Residents in Wynnewood are trying to make sense out of a tragic weekend accident that killed a teenage boy.

A year-long investigation led to more than 20 arrests and helped plug a major cocaine pipeline, police said.

Emmanuel Akande ran Oklahoma City's Peace of Mind Counseling Center. From January 2004 to May of 2005, Peace of Mind billed Medicaid for more than $130,000. Fraud investigators found "there was no documentation for any alleged services" at Peace of Mind.

Students in the Social Work Practice II class at East Central University will present an adoption awareness forum from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov.

Garvin County's new emergency management director has plenty of ties to the area where he now works.

Funding problems from farther up the food chain has left managers of a senior citizen nutrition program in the tough spot of having to cut services to a handful of cities in the region, including two in Garvin County.

It's time for the unexpected twists of a Halloween favorite in Wynnewood with the return of the Tales from the Eskridge event.

The number of underage people who were able to purchase alcohol in Garvin County in recent monitored buy efforts was high enough to worry local law enforcement officials.

Combine some tasty spaghetti sauce with a very quiet auction and you've got a recipe for a good cause.

PAULS VALLEY a ' Firefighters from Pauls Valley, Purcell, Walker and Wynnewood were called in this morning to battle a four alarm blaze at the historic Alvis Hotel.

A dozen plus two are now in place and on the job for a long-anticipated grand jury investigation of a Wynnewood man's shooting death last year.

For Pat Horton it was hard to believe the day had finally arrived for Monday's start of a grand jury in Pauls Valley meant to take a much closer look at his father's shooting death last year.

When the Pauls Valley school district hired six new instructors for the current academic year, the new staff included the tandem teaching team of Jake and Ashley Deviney.

When Judi Vig, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, saw exotic animals on display Wednesday at Southland Center, it sent alarms off in her mind.

Activity has ground to a virtual standstill for any possible criminal charges that could come after dozens of neglected horses were seized last month from a Pauls Valley area farm.

A Wynnewood man was injured in a single-vehicle car wreck Tuesday. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Tommy Riddle said the wreck occurred on old State Highway 29 four miles west of Interstate 35 in Garvin County.