Pittsburg News

Authorities say the Pittsburg County Courthouse was evacuated because someone called a bomb threat into the office of a judge.

There has been plenty of talk around town in the past week or so about the David Harold Earls rape case and how the local justice system handled the case.

A Haskell County sheriff's deputy reported a brief tornado touchdown in the western part of the county.

Two state House members are upset with a Pittsburg County judge's decision to approve a one-year prison sentence for a man convicted of raping a 4-year-old girl.

Two people are in jail Wednesday, accused of starving three horses. A Pittsburg County Sheriff's deputy found the horses while he was serving an arrest warrant on another charge at a home in Ashland.

Tulsa's Turner Park Pool will be open this summer. The city had not planned to open that pool, but sponsors and the neighborhood association pitched in with the necessary money.

At this writing , we are well into the last two weeks of the session with approximately 350 bills remaining for consideration, which is a monumental task.

A state grand jury is investigating whether the district attorney from McAlester improperly subpoenaed records from an Internet site that posted critical comments of him.

Tulsa Public Schools officials notified FOX23, an employee at Jackson Elementary is the confirmed case of swine flu in Tulsa County.

The Kiowa Masonic Lodge No. 117 and the Pittsburg County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments were happy to present a check to Clayton Rice on April 20.

Sales tax returns continue to decline for many area towns, although McAlester's .6 percent drop from last year is mostly attributed to a sales tax that expired.

Week eleven was a rather busy week as we continued with House bills on the Senate floor.

Easter Greetings to all in District 18. This legislative week marked the end of House committees' consideration of Senate bills; there are two weeks remaining for the full House to consider Senate measures before our deadline of April 23.

Two men have been charged in the armed robbery of $132 from a convenience store in Krebs on Tuesday.

JoAnn Roberts, 72, of McAlester, died Saturday, April 4, 2009, at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa.

PERSONAL INJURY COLLISION OCCURRED ON 032609 AT 1955 HOURS IN A PASTURE 2 MILES NORTH AND ONE HALF MILE EAST OF PITTSBURG IN PITTSBURG COUNTY.

Courtroom part of $9.7 million jail facility, but will it be used? By KANDRA WELLS STAFF WRITER When the new $9.7 million Pittsburg County Jail was still in the drawing stages, two judges looked at the plans and told the architect not to include a courtroom.

A state representative who is also a McAlester veterinarian says he knows from personal experience that animals used in the Oklahoma State University's College of Veterinary Medicine aren't mistreated.

After two weeks without a burn ban and with surging grass fires in the area, Pittsburg County commissioners have once again banned outside burning.

The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association has named Austin M. Green Special Ranger for District 3. District 3 includes parts of central and northern Oklahoma.