Quinton News

Eufaula Area Arts Council will host an art festival this weekend called Eufaula Art Walk today and Saturday.

The Quinton High School Senior Students of the Week for Sept. 21 - Sept. 25 are Dallas Followill, left, and Stacy Davis.

Eastern Oklahoma State College Music Department will present the annual Fall Concert, to be held 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

The Quinton Junior High/High School September Teacher of the Month is Ladona Young-Barron. Young-Barron graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant in 1990 with a Business Education Degree and has taught at Antlers, Eufaula and Canadian.

Quinton's fall festival, slated for Sept. 26, is only weeks away. With many activities already on the schedule, the committee has added even more events designed to provide something for everyone.

Quinton will be hosting a Fall Festival on Sept. 26 starting at 9 a.m. There will be games and blow up castles for the kids, and free hot dogs for the first 100 kids at the community center.

Two passengers were injured n a single-vehicle accident following a mishap near Krebs on Thursday.

Three people were injured in a two-vehicle accident east of Krebs on Friday. Those injured included Latessa Forwoodson, 18, of Wilburton, said the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

One of the best rodeos on the road to the International Finals Rodeo, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo draws top contestants every year.

One of the best rodeos on the road to the International Finals Rodeo, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo draws top contestants every year.

One of the best rodeos on the road to the International Finals Rodeo, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo draws top contestants every year.

One of the best rodeos on the road to the International Finals Rodeo, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo draws top contestants every year.

Three Pittsburg County residents have been injured in a single-vehicle accident near Quinton.

One of Benton County's most wanted fugitives is now behind bars in Oklahoma. Police say Showana Kissinger Glasco and her husband, John Glasco, were arrested in Quinton Oklahoma.

Oda 'Nanny' Ward, 95, of Hartshorne, died Friday, June 12, 2009, at a local nursing facility.

Quinton High School has selected it's top students for the 2008-2009 school year.

Helen Small, 73, of McAlester, died Saturday, May 16, 2009, at a local nursing center.

County Commissioners appointed Ted Van Curen to the Rogers County Excise Equalization Board to fill the position recently vacated by Billy Quinton.

THIS IS THE TROOPER'S INITIAL REPORT: A FATALITY COLLISION OCCURRED AT 10:23 HOURS ON 05/01/2009, 5 MILES EAST OF KREBS ON SH31 IN PITTSBURG COUNTY.

A Quinton man died early Friday when his vehicle drifted into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into another vehicle in Pittsburg County.