Lahoma News

Northwest Oklahoma received some strong storms, including large hail and damaging winds, late Monday night.

Oklahoma will continue to bake in triple-digit heat for at least one more day. According to the National Weather Service, high pressure that has kept conditions very hot and dry over the southern Plains will break down, allowing cold front to enter the region.

Intense heat will continue across Oklahoma with no relief in sight for most areas.

Heat wave blisters Oklahoma A heat wave is blistering Oklahoma, sending temperatures soaring to near-record levels for a second day in some parts of the state.

A Carrier woman was injured Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle accident north of Lahoma.

As soon as harvest begins to wane, farmers do what they do every year: burn fields.

A semi struck a pickup truck in the drivera s door when the driver pulled out in ita s path late Tuesday afternoon north of Blair.

A woman pleaded no contest last week to prostitution charges, accused of agreeing to be paid for services with a box of chips by a man who said he was a Frito-Lay employee.

Having been part of their tightly knit community all her life, Teresa Vance always has had an interest in military families.

OBI blood drive slated in Lahoma The Lahoma community is partnering with Oklahoma Blood Institute in a community blood drive sponsored by Lahoma First Baptist Church Sister to Sister group 3 to 8 p.m. Monday, All healthy, Lahoma-area residents, age 17 and older, are encouraged to donate blood in the bloodmobile at Lahoma City Hall, 2nd and Main.

Editor's note: Through his travels and participation in the aerospace industry, Enid native Owen K. Garriott has had the opportunity to visit with many other officials, and he reports he often finds many in the field have ties to Enid.

Glenwood Elementary School sixth-grader Carson Walker and Chisholm Elementary School fifth-grader Falon Robinett competed in the 2009 Scripps Central Oklahoma Spelling It! Bee held March 29 at the University of Okla-homa. There are three levels of bees in Oklahoma.

The proposed Veterans Affairs health clinic in Enid is being delayed, and one organizer is concerned it will be lost to another city.

Oklahoma wheat producers are beginning to see the effects from a hard freeze earlier this month.