Kay County News

About 2 p.m. Saturday, Dollar was driving a motorcycle north on State Highway 44, just south of Quartz Mountain State Park, when he missed a curve and crashed into a guardrail,A the patrol reported.

Oklahoma Department of Transportation recently opened the first of eight planned state-of-the-art weigh stations.

The state has enough money lined up to build five port of entry truck weighing and inspection stations similar to one that opened last month in Kay County, a transportation official says.

Promising early production from a new horizontal well in Logan County, Okla., has First Titan Corp.

Separate Oklahoma crashes have resulted in the deaths of a man from Stillwell and a man from Arkansas City, Kan.

The Oklahoma House has met a legislative deadline by passing bills to fund new Port of Entry truck weigh and inspection stations.

Trooper Betsy Randolph said the driver of the tractor-trailer rig was trying to ride out the storm.

Oklahoma's first state-of-the-art commercial truck weigh station opened last week in Kay County along Interstate 35 just south of the Kansas border, the first of nine improved stations the state plans to construct along its borders in the next several years.

Thunderstorms moved through northern central Oklahoma early Monday. Heavy rain and lightning was in central Oklahoma and a flood warning was issued in northern Oklahoma where several homes flooded.

Water is covering the roads in Kay County Monday morning. There were reports overnight of Hubbard Road being closed from Ponca City to Blackwell.

The heaviest rains occurred between Enid and Ponca City. News 9 Meteorologist Jed Castles says Kay County received nine inches of rain within four hours.

Severe thunderstorms prompted tornado warnings in northern Oklahoma, but there were no confirmed tornadoes and no injuries were immediately reported.