Broken Bow News

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.

A 73-year-old Broken Bow man has drowned in the Glover River in McCurtain County in far southeastern Oklahoma.

Even though Tallie Anderson wasn't physically at the memorial held for her Thursday evening inside Will Rogers Elementary's auditorium, her spirit was definitely in the building as family, friends, classmates and faculty bid an emotional farewell to the 11-year-old Shawnee girl who shed new light on the nationwide shortage of bone marrow donors for ...

Many residents are spending their spring brea on the lake in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.

Rainfall has been plentiful over parts of the area today! 1 to 3 inches fell from Broken Bow, OK to Henderson, TX and over an inch occured in Grand Cane, LA.

Paige Booth, the current Miss Southeastern Oklahoma and Leah Meyer, Miss Southeastern Oklahoma Outstanding Teen will crown their successors at the 2009 Miss Southeastern Oklahoma and Miss Southeastern Oklahoma ...

OKLAHOMA CITY State Rep. Dennis Bailey, D-Broken Bow, said Weyerhaeuser is getting an unfair tax break.

Ray L. Wulf has resigned his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of American Farmers & Ranchers Mutual Insurance Company and the Oklahoma State Union of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative ...

The sound of hammers, power tools and cash registers is being added to the sound of rustling leaves, babbling brooks and kids laughing in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.