Ponca City News

Four-laning U.S. 412 to Woodward and improving U.S. 81 north of Enid are the biggest highway needs discussed Tuesday during a meeting of Enid officials and Oklahoma Department of Transporta-tion. Craig Moody, of ODOT's planning and research division, said the department updates its 20-year plan every five years and covers all facets of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY The award of nearly $1.8 million over two years will help bring therapeutic medicine for Crohn's disease to the market that much quicker, Selexys Pharmaceuticals Corp.

Two men were killed in separate rollover crashes Tuesday in Mayes and Kay counties, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

The board of the Economic Development Generating Excellence initiative recently approved five projects, including several with Tulsa ties, totaling more than $6.9 million.

OKLAHOMA CITY After graduating with a degree in recreation from Oklahoma State University, Carey Sue Vega went to work as a cruise director for Norwegian Cruise Line.

A Tonkawa man has been killed in a one-car crash near Ponca City. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 36-year-old Matthew Scott died in the accident less than a mile west of Ponca City about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

There were to be twice as many birds in the air Sunday for the Center for Counseling & Educationa s Great Pigeon Race.

As we all have heard, the country is in a recession which is leading to everyone cutting expenses including state government.

Woodward Police detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred in the 2900 block of Edgewood Drive Tuesday afternoon.

Meghan Fossey , an OSU student, is an actress in a oeThe Erased,a OSU graduate and filmmaker Liz Tabisha s latest project.

Jordan Carter was chosen first-place winner of the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association's Junior Auditions, Grades 5-6 division, held at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant Oct.

Tonkawas photographed by Rhinehart in 1898. Standing L-R, Winnie Richards, John Rush Buffalo, William Stevens, John Allen, and Mary Richards.

Members of the Shidler Fire Department are nothing if not tenacious. It took them four years of selling hamburgers at local events, holding raffles and other ways but they finally raised $100,000 for a new ambulance.

Poteau Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Karen Wages and Chamber President Traci Barnes attended the 2009 Governor's Tourism Conference in Tulsa earlier this week.

Area lawmakers discussed the state's financial situation Thursday with members of Oklahoma Public Employees Association.

Today, Dawena Pappan, 39, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, pled guilty before United States District Judge Robin Cauthron to embezzling funds from the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

An entire family, including a woman who works for Oklahoma's Office of Juvenile Affairs, was charged Tuesday with growing marijuana.

Police say a brawl involving about 30 people left the Cowboy Travel Plaza off Interstate 35 damaged.

An Oklahoma woman that checked into a hospital under someone else's name and gave birth has been sentenced to a five year suspended sentence in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

Giving employees the opportunity to choose a traditional health insurance policy with a supplement instead of a workers compensation policy could increase benefits while saving money, state lawmakers were told last week.