Idabel News

Oklahoma middle school students interested in science can apply now for a summer field program offered by the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma.

If there were ever an example of someone who is dedicated to serving her community, it would be Idabel's Jia Bain Johnson.

An Idabel truck driver who was injured in a crash on a rain-slicked highway last week has died.

A former Lamar County pharmacist has made a plea agreement in federal court in Muskogee, Okla.

A federal prosecutor says five Oklahomans and a Texas pharmacist have pleaded guilty to running a large drug distribution network in southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas.

A federal prosecutor says five Oklahomans and a Texas pharmacist have pleaded guilty to running a large drug distribution network in southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas.

Federal prosecutors in Muskogee, Oklahoma charged six men with conspiracy to possess and intent to distribute illegal drugs The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma is callings this one of the largest illicit controlled substance networks in Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas.

A federal prosecutor says five Oklahomans and a Texas pharmacist have pleaded guilty to running a large drug distribution network in southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas.

The Museum of the Red River on Idabel, Okla., hosts The Caddo and the Mississippian Cultural Universe: A Symposium at 10 a.m. Saturday at M.J. 'Jack' Bell Hall in the Mary H. Herron Community Conference Center in Idabel.

Hollywood glamorized the Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in a movie starring Johnny Depp, but real bank robbers are far from glamorous.

Authorities recovered the body of a man Sunday morning, more than a day after he was swept over a dam in the Little River near Idabel while he and two others were noodling, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Authorities recovered the body of a man Sunday morning, more than a day after he was swept over a dam in the Little River near Idabel while he and two others were noodling, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

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.

Authorities recovered the body of a man Sunday morning, more than a day after he was swept over a dam in the Little River near Idabel while he and two others were noodling, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Police said a 27-year-old drowned after being swept into the Little River. Witnesses said the man was noodling in the river near Idabel when a current carried him away.

The body of an Idabel man was recovered at 6:20 a.m. Sunday morning from the Little River in southeast Oklahoma.

Rex G. Helms, 76, longtime mayor and civic leader of Idabel, Okla., went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at his home.

The Leadership Oklahoma Board of Directors recently elected Bill Andoe of Tahlequah to the Chair-Youth Program Committee for 2009-2010, and Rob Raasch of Muskogee is a member of the board of directors.

A celebration of his life will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 10, at Saint Mark's Episcopal Parish House on South Third Street in Hugo.

Evalena Benton, 85, of Hugo, Okla. died Sunday, June 14, 2009. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at the Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.