Poteau News

GUNS 'N HOSES: The results are in for the Poteau Guns and Hoses blood drive. Approximately 53 units of blood were collected during the two-day blood drive, Tuesday and Wednesday.

POTEAU/HEAVENER - The parents of a slain wister woman are defending their daughter and dispelling rumors, all while trying to keep the public focused on finding her killer.

Over 3,500 people attended the biggest fireworks display in Poteau history Saturday evening in celebration of Independence Day as the Poteau Chamber of Commerce sponsored one of the biggest Fourth of July celebrations in LeFlore County with five water slides and 16 carnival games, including bingo, golf, basketball, musical chairs and face painting.

POTEAU, Okla. - The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has lost its good standing with a national organization.

Drivers on along Poteau's main thoroughfare were delayed Wednesday during their morning cummute when several emergency services personnel responded to this two-vehicle accident at the corner of North Broadway and Wilson.

WISTER a ' Authorities are seeking help from the public in their investigation of a Wister womana TMs unsolved death.

Drivers on along Poteau's main thoroughfare were delayed Wednesday during their morning cummute when several emergency services personnel responded to this two-vehicle accident at the corner of North Broadway and Wilson.

Heavener dispatcher and reserve police officer Trena Nixon turned herself in to authorities on Friday and has been charged with with 21 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Officials in Oklahoma and New Jersey are asking for help in finding the person or persons responsible for the death of a woman whose body was found in LeFlore County last month.

Poteau firefighters had a busy Friday. A small grass and structural fire was extinguished early in the day at the home of Steve McCain after the wind got out of control while he was burning trash and grass.

Emma Satterfield and Trista Fassio play with a poodle puppy at Poteau Pets during a Boys and Girls Club field trip on Wednesday.

Friday morning at Tiger Truck was spent loading 50 vehicles onto semi-trucks for the US Air Force that are destined for Europe.

Dan Toney of LeFlore County is currently training police officers in Kirkuk, Iraq, on an ITAM - Police at the Kirkuk Oil Police Regional Training Center.

Bobbie McAuliffe is not one to sit back and watch the world go by without trying to make a difference.

A Stigler man arrested in connection with a bank robbery in Fort Smith, Ark., is also being looked at as a suspect in a recent bank robbery in McAlester.

OG&E recently began delivering 1,000 electric fans to agencies serving low-income and elderly citizens across its 30,000 square mile service area.

Authorities in Oklahoma and New Jersey are investigating the death last month of Jody Rilee-Wilson. Her body was discovered on May 8 in the area of Poteau Mountain near Heavener Runestone State Park.

You will never know what you might find when doing preservation to an older building.

Flag Day, the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777, was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30, 1916.

FORT SMITH, Ark. a ' Fort Smith police tracked a suspected bank robber through his mobile phone before he was arrested by authorities in Yell County.