Okmulgee News

A lawyer says a former Tulsa high school teacher accused of the fatal shooting of his attorney wife will plead insanity as a defense.

The driver of a tractor-trailer rig said he was unaware there was a problem with the load of dirt he was hauling until a noise alerted him.

'Set yourself up for success,' was the overall advice from Virginia Thomas, President of the National Johnson-O'Malley Association out of Okmulgee, Oklahoma to the Indian Education Committee members and school official attendees during the Johnson O'Malley and Indian Education training.

Thomas Hollingsworth had a checkered past. He was involved in petty crimes growing up and spent time in juvenile centers, where he learned a lot of bad habits from the people who were supposed to be helping him.

Tahlequah police arrested an Okmulgee man early Saturday on drug possession charges.

Robert L. "Bob" Nichols, 85, of McAlester, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at McAlester Regional Health Center.

The Okmulgee Police Department is searching for Constance Jean Martin, also known as Connie Jean Martin.

The Rev. Roy E. Davis has been preaching for 50 years, all but two of them as the pastor of the Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ, which he started in 1961 in a garage.

A Disabled American Veterans van en route to a Christmas Party was knocked on its side after being hit at the intersection of 40th Street and West Okmulgee Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Friday.

There is a parable of the International Goat Sensation: a story about a boy and his goat.

Okmulgee Police arrested a man with a pellet gun inside a Walmart store Wednesday evening.

A gunman is in custody after police say he stormed into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Okmulgee.

Some students won't have to worry about finding a job when they graduate. That's because OSU's Institute of Technology in Okmulgee says its Natural Gas Compression Program has a 100% employment rate.

His children say they learned to ride and to ride out rough times. Roy LeBlanc is shown on the grounds of the Okmulgee Invitational Rodeo, which he helped found in 1956 for black riders, who weren't allowed to compete in other rodeos at that time.

Sales of all electric vehicles are super charged right now as a deadline for tax credits on the street legal cars gets closer.

A Tulsa teenager was charged Wednesday with murdering a man in a shooting that police indicated was drug-related. Tulsa County prosecutors charged Michael Wayne Dorsey, 18, with the first-degree murder of Ryan L. Jones, 20, of Okmulgee.

Oklahoma City - " Feed The Children's "Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan" will make its next stop in Oklahoma to help 5,600 families in need.

A 16-year-old Cherokee named Ed Hicks saw the telephone demonstrated at the World's Fair in St.

As people marked Veterans Day at Fort Gibson National Cemetery last week, three brothers honored two brothers who are buried there.

The Tulsa SPCA said it was finally able to rescue several dogs that disappeared during an animal cruelty investigation, thanks to tips from 2NEWS viewers.