Broken Bow News

By DAVID THOMAS Five questions with ZZ Top ZZ Top is celebrating its 40th year of rockin' the world.

Drive 200 miles for a massage? That just sounds nutty. But wait - this isn't any ordinary massage.

A 46 year old kayaker from Arkansas drowned Thursday when his kayak became stuck in the Presbyterian Falls at the Mountain Fork river near Broken Bow.

BROKEN BOW For more than a decade Terry Walker and his wife, Michelle, have rented cabins to tourists in southeastern Oklahoma.

Austin Pracht and his fellow BBHS junior classmates are shown logging on to their new laptop computers.

Tommy McCombs kept his alligator is a plastic storage bin for a couple of years, and sometimes let him out in the front yard of his home in the 800 block of East Tyler Avenue.

Planning a trip to your favorite Oklahoma State Park just got a little easier. Visitors can now book cabins, cottages and lodge rooms online.

Bill and June Hart, Ada, will be spotlighted as Artists of the Month in the Artists of the Arbuckles Gallery in Sulphur for July.

By MICHELLE ZLOMKE Chief Managing Editor The pleading voice on the phone prompted Dick and Kay Towns to take quick action to help their granddaughter.

PICKENS a ' A Battiest woman died in a Friday evening accident in McCurtain County.

Carolyn Cotney or Carolyn Vandiver born in 1945 or 1946 to Maudie Ethel Vandiver.

Just about every summer of my childhood my parents, my three bothers and I would pack food and clothing, pile into our Volvo station wagon, and drive the thirteen hours from Atlanta, Georgia to my dad's hometown of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, heart of the Choctaw Nation.

The lodge, all of the cabins and most of the campsites will be open at Beaver's Bend State Park and Hochatown State Park near Broken Bow for the Memorial Day weekend, state Tourism Director Hardy Watkins said this week.

Who makes a good teacher? A person who encourages youngsters to have a successful life, says a professor of education who is retiring after 39 years at East Central University.

Those hoping to play a round on Cedar Creek Golf Course at Hochatown State Park near Broken Bow right now will need more than a bag of clubs and golf balls.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected throughout Oklahoma today with no relief in sight, and flood advisories are active in areas of southeast Oklahoma already soaked by up to five inches of rain this morning alone, according to the National Weather Service.

Organizers of a local food drive want to help stamp out hunger with one can of food at a time - but they'll need a little help from McAlester residents.

By MICHELLE ZLOMKE Chief Managing Editor NUEVO LEON, Mexico -- When national governments ramped up efforts to inhibit the spread of H1N1 influenza, a Broken Bow woman studying in Mexico, faced major changes in her day-to-day activities.

Alcohol and floodwaters may be to blame for the death of a Broken Bow man. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Paul Cox, 73 was found dead inside his chevy pick-up truck in the Glover River Sunday morning.

Even as floodwaters receded in some areas of eastern Oklahoma, two people have drowned in separate accidents after the area endured heavy, constant rainfall in recent days.