Mangum News

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Kaylan Liles has been named the Altus Tourism Ambassador for 2009. She will begin the drive on Tuesday, May 26.

From left, Norma Williams of Mangum purchases Quartz Mountain Music Festival tickets and T-shirts from Cyndie Smith and Kim Leverett, both members of the festivala s board of directors.

For the second time in the same day, area officers with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol worked a fatality accident.

More than 1,340 people reported being bit by a rattlesnake in 2007, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

Three overnight crashes on Oklahoma roadways left one dead and several in critical condition, according to reports from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Oklahomaa s 21st Annual Statewide Preservation Conference will be held at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center.

Granite_Granite officials say it would be devastating if the town lost the Oklahoma State Reformatory.

A former Deputy Warden's wife Bobbi Parker leaves Greer County Courthouse in Mangum, Okla., on April 21, 2008, with her husband Randy Parker , and Sherriff Bill Runyan after her first hearing for being accused of aiding a prison escape of convicted murderer Randolph Dial in 1994.

Snow was falling heavily early Saturday morning in the Altus area, but by noon, blue skies were seen and roadways were clearing.

Ludie Gee Rexrode celebrated 97 years of living with loving friends and family. Mrs. Rexrode took her final journey March 23, 2009.

City Manager Pam Polk recently became accredited with the International City/County Management Association, officials said.

Altus_The City of Altus has bailed out a struggling Elks Lodge and golf course after the city council voted to buy the course for $225,000 in a special session last Friday.

This week people seeking as just a resolution as possible to the Duke/Durham frame-up attempt and its ongoing cover-up heard the very good news Kristin Butler , an award winning former Chronicle columnist, and ...

A $200,000 bond issue for transporation needs was OKa d by voters in the Duke School District in Tuesdaya s annual School Election.

ACMI House providing free services to women who fall victim to domestic violence - Oklahoma ranks fourth in the nation in murders of women in single-victim, single-offender crimes - most committed by a current ...

Mangum Farm in Chocolay Township and the Marquette County Jail could soon be under construction.

MANGUM a ' A woman accused of helping a convicted killer escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory nearly 15 years ago is expected to enter a not guilty plea in Greer County court.

As of this morning, three of the four Altus City Council incumbents have drawn opponents.

Thousands of Oklahomans are still without power. Some of them have taken shelter from the storm in churches, but as the days wear on, they're anxious to get home.