Elk City News

Despite a climbing unemployment rate both nationally and locally, Oklahoma added nearly 8,800 jobs last month, which is among the highest in the country.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Oklahoma City police are seeking the public's to find a man accused of impersonating a police officer.

A former Marine faces six counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings of four people whose bodies were found inside a burning house.

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease," such as pneumonia.

At the edge of this town, at the end of a long driveway, lives Lawrie Covey, who's at the end of her rope.

Here are a few things bargain-hungry consumers need to know before they hit stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving.

Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said.

Investigators have identified a dead body found in the trunk of a burning car on November 15 in Norman.

Police have arrested a man wanted in a stabbing outside an Oklahoma bar. William "Bill" Jones, 46, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after police say he and woman pushed a baby stroller into the Turf Bar in Enid Tuesday.

State health officials say six more Oklahomans have died from complications of the swine flu.

The federal government's Web site shows millions of dollars in federal stimulus money going to congressional districts in Oklahoma that don't exist.

An oil rig accident involving a crane has killed two Vici men who worked for an Oklahoma City-based company.

ELK CITY, Oklahoma One man was killed and another was injured Tuesday in an oil rig accident near Elk City.

ENID, Oklahoma Enid police are investigating a stabbing that took place near a local bar Tuesday night.

Americans will travel 1.4 percent more this Thanksgiving holiday weekend compared to last year as consumer sentiment improves after the global economic crisis, travel and auto group AAA said Wednesday.

Seminole County Sheriff Shannon Smith lost two deputies to gunfire. He grieves for them every day and wonders if they had bullet proof vests, if they would have had a chance to survive.

What's believed to be the second case of an H1N1-infected cat surfaced in Utah, and one of the cat's owners also tested positive for the virus.

Suicides in the U.S. Army will hit a new high this year, a top general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on U.S. forces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan.

LEXINGTON, Mo. Prosecutors in western Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released claims some of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man in 1988.