Catoosa News

BASEBALL AND FIREWORKS The Tulsa Drillers start a weeklong homestand with a game against Arkansas at 7:05 p.m. Friday at Drillers Stadium .

Three teens have been arrested after a crime spree in which at least ten cars were burglarized in a Catoosa neighborhood.

Rogers County Commissioners are fired up about what they say is a misrepresentation in a three-quarter-page ad running in the Daily Progress and other county papers.

A road construction worker died early Tuesday morning when a dump truck backed over him.

House District 74 freshman Rep. David Derby, however, has not one but two opponents for the July 29 GOP primary: security consultant Bob Batterbee and retired Oklahoma Narcotics Bureau agent Robert Jerome.

A fuel tanker truck and a car collided just before 2:30 Wednesday morning on I-44 at 193rd E. Avenue.

TULSA Despite surging waters that cut June tonnage 42.9 percent, the Tulsa Port of Catoosa completed the first half of 2008 with only a 2 percent decline in traffic.

A tanker truck hauling animal fat and a car collided about 2:15 Wednesday morning on I-44 at 193rd E. Avenue.

Record rainfalls continue to wreak havoc on Highway 66 through Claremore, as water saturation repeatedly shifts the ground beneath roadways, leading to pothole-inducing tears in the asphalt.

A construction worker was injured Thursday morning when he fell from the second story of the Cherokee Casino and Resort in Catoosa.

A construction worker who fell about 20 feet from a tower at the Cherokee Nation Casino Resort has been released from the hospital.

Catoosa City Council and Pafford EMS reached an agreement for ambulance service subsidy at Monday's meeting.

Traffic moves on 193rd East Avenue in front of the Cherokee Casino and Resort, just north of Interstate 44.

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The Sertoma Club is sponsoring a vintage car show from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the D.W. Correll Antique Car Museum, 19934 E. Pine St.

Tourism isn't the only eastern Oklahoma industry dampened this year and last by heavier than usual rainfall.

Boats are still operating on the Rogers County portion of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System despite heavy rainfall and high water, but movement is slow.

Three Mayes County residents were sentenced for their involvement in the Dec. 12, 2007, robbery of Bank of America in Catoosa.

News that Rogers County Commissioner Mike Helm is under investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and a special prosecutor does not mean people should jump to conclusions.

Fake mustaches have long been established as a staple of bank robbery attire, but a serial bank robber in the Boston area has made a stylistic breakthrough for the entire bank heist community: the fake goatee.