Latimer County News

A small-town sheriff and his top deputy kept close watch over a lonely stretch of interstate in eastern Oklahoma, looking for drug couriers to fleece.

Two Bartlesville residents were killed Tuesday evening in a two-vehicle crash, and a Wilburton teenager was killed later that night when he was ejected from his car on a Latimer County road.

A 16-year-old Wilburton boy has been killed in a one-car crash on a county road in Latimer County.

Brandy McCarty, of McAlester, was delivering medical supplies to a customer in the Wilburton area on May 29 when a vicious attack changed her life.

A Wilburton man died today after a wreck Saturday south of Wilburton in Latimer County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

With the legislative session concluded, I want to take this opportunity to summarize important bills, as well as provide some reflections on my work as your representative.

The following one change has been made to the On-System Load Posted List. The bridge on S.H. 2 over Gaines Creek in Latimer County NBI # 03779 structure number 3906 1480X located 14.5 miles north of Pushmataha county has traffic on the new structure.

Three Oklahoma law enforcement officers who died in on-duty traffic accidents last year will be included on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, but a fourth man won't. David Lippe of the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial says Chickasaw Lighthorse officer Robert P. Flickinger has been excluded because the memorial concluded ...

I once heard someone say it's funny that television weather forecasters can be wrong 50 percent of the time and not get fired.

Authorities in Latimer County, Okla., said three tornadoes touched down in their community on Thursday evening.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Even as wildfires raged in central and western parts of Oklahoma and tornadoes touched down in two of the state's southeastern counties, north-central parts of the state saw another weather phenomenon a ' snow.

Authorities say several people were injured and several homes were damaged when tornadoes touched down in eastern Oklahoma.

Hunting season is nothing new for Texoma, but now the issue of whether to add a "bear" hunting season is getting a lot of attention.

District 7 state Sen. Richard Lerblance, D-Hartshorne, contends a request by the Republican legislative leadership for a study on the possibility of closing the Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown and two other prisons has another purpose.

With a chance of rain in the forecast, county commissioners in both Pittsburg and Latimer counties passed new burn bans on Monday.

A case involving $80,000 in tables, benches and other furniture taken from a local plant now involves a former jailer, with two city police officers and the county's emergency management director now among ...

A Red Oak woman has been injured in accident which occurred near Gowen. Dorothy Blankenship, 76, was transported to the McAlester Regional Health Center by Hartshorne Emergency Services following the Sunday ...

An investigation into a theft ring that has already led to the arrests of eight employees at a McAlester manufacturing plant has revealed missing shipments dating back to 2004 involving even more people and ...

Investigators still are searching for clues in the case of an elderly Latimer County woman stabbed to death in June in her Buffalo Valley home.

The burn ban in Pittsburg and Latimer counties expired on Monday. Pittsburg County commissioners decided not to put the county's burn ban back into place, said District 1 Commissioner Gene Rogers.