Jay News

Joshua Spires was charged with having sex with an underage girl while he was the pastor at a church in Jay, Oklahoma.

A former youth pastor in Jay, Okla., has been charged with molesting an underage girl.

A former youth pastor in Jay, Okla., has been charged with molesting an underage girl.

Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn began his series of town hall meetings across Oklahoma on Thursday.

Mary Hodges, of Grove, Okla., announces the engagement and upcoming wedding of her daughter, Nikki Hodges, to Jesse Thomas.

The Times is posting reader comments about my column today on unemployment . I responded to a few of those comments: on why certain states are struggling; on whether we're in a depression; on whether the economy can recover even as unemployment is rising; and on whether part-time workers don't tell the truth to government survey takers.

An Arkansas man was killed in a two-vehicle accident at 6:15 p.m. Monday on Highway 412, a mile east of Leach, Okla., in Delaware County, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

An Oklahoma man was killed Thursday in a single car crash north of Maysville. Bill Louis Doan, 50, of Jay, Okla., was traveling south on Arkansas 43 when he ran off the road and hit a concrete culvert, according to Arkansas State Police.