Creek County News

Cuts in state funding for education mean teachers at one northeastern Oklahoma school now must clean their own classrooms while their superintendent scrubs the toilets.

Voters in two Oklahoma City metro-area school districts have approved major school bond issues.

Homicide Detectives arrested Cedric Jackson for 1st Degree Murder. Jackson had been listed as a person of interest in the homicide that occurred on 11/10/09, at 4804 N. Yorktown Place.

One man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a shooting near an elementary school as classes were letting out.

Voters at Pawhuska gave their approval Tuesday to a $9.61 million school bond package, the largest in the school districta s history.

It isn't just the Tulsa Health Department holding a walk in H1N1 clinic this Saturday, they're being held statewide and there are several just outside of Tulsa.

Paul has been given two years in federal prison. A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says 39-year-old Jerry Waddle also faces 10 years of supervised release after his prison term.

A Bristow teenager was killed when her car veered into oncoming traffic and crashed into a pickup Monday afternoon.

Humans aren't the only ones getting sick right now. Horses in Pawnee and Creek Counties have been testing positive for Equine Infectious Anemia.

Marquis Bullock, convicted of murdering 13-year-old Cori Baker has been formally sentenced to life with the possibility of parole on Monday.

A man driving the wrong way on a major highway causes a fatal head-on crash. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said 33-year-old Jeremy West of Mounds was driving southbound on the north side of Highway 75 near 201st St.

Texas Tech University's Ernst Keisling, a pioneer in above-ground storm shelters is getting a first-hand look at a school that has built safe rooms for its students.

A Sapulpa man is in jail accused of raping a teenage girl he met online. It's what parents worry about and what kids think will never happen to them.

Owasso Public Schools Proposition 1 $18.7 million bond for school construction Passed 946 to 282 Proposition 2 $1 million bond for transportation equipment Passed 970 to 256 Sand Springs Public Schools Proposition 1 $42.160 million bond for school construction Passed 1,733 to 320 Proposition 2 $450,000 bond for transportation equipment Passed 1,752 ...

Russell Crosby and Shirley Brooks stand by the "Maggie M" trolley in Sapulpa. Brooks' family owned the trolley, and Crosby is one of the volunteers who has helped to restore the trolley to its former grandeur.

Witnesses told police that the 18-year-old was sitting in class at Bartlett Academy when she stood up with a pencil in her hand and stabbed a young man in the throat on Monday.

The Creek County Health Department begins vaccinations for swine flu this afternoon.

The Avalon Steakhouse has grilled its last rib-eye. The west Tulsa restaurant closed its doors in late September, ending more than four decades of tradition at the sometimes rowdy but always iconic dining destination.

Officials in the Sands Springs school district used an aggressive, get-it-out approach when it came to detailing Tuesday's bond election, Superintendent Lloyd Snow said.

The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety announced on Monday that it will be adding a new question to drivera s license tests about the dangers driving into high water.