Shawnee News

Hundreds of seniors were at the state Capitol Wednesday to express their frustration over cuts to nutrition programs for the elderly.

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It was another busy Saturday afternoon at Circle D Pawn in Shawnee when Tina Peerson noticed two people acting suspiciously around the ring counter.

The annual Red Dirt Book Festival, set Nov. 6-7 in Shawnee, will be a multi-faceted event, with author-presented programs and workshops, panel discussions and a banquet.

The numbers are impressive: 432,107 pounds of trash, 12,000 hours of work, 6,800 volunteers, 1,510 trees and flowers.

A memorial service for Betty Marie Earnest Danielson, 65, will be held on Wednesday, Oct.

State animal rescue laws may have been broken at an adoption fair this week for about 100 dogs saved from an alleged puppy mill, Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said.

An Oklahoma law mandating that detailed information about patients who have abortions be published on a state Web site was blocked by legal action on Monday.

Cara Baxter cradles four small dogs in her lap, allowing them to nuzzle their muddy faces against her clean shirt without a care.

An Oklahoma man is lucky to be alive tonight after being beaten, thrown into a small pond, and left for dead.

Authorities in Pottawatomie County are looking for the people who beat a man and left him for dead.

The weather has been unseasonably cool and rainy this fall, but it's perfect for snuggling up in a favorite quilt.

Dr. Bill D. Ellis, 83, of Shawnee, Okla., passed from this earthly life to his eternal home Sunday, Oct.

A new Oklahoma law set to take effect on November 1, will require doctors to report extensive information about each abortion performed in the state, which will then be published on government websites.

CHANDLER a ' A Lincoln County jury has convicted a Shawnee woman of first-degree murder in the 2004 beating death of a 62-year-old Meeker woman.

Sequoyah County commissioners will hold a special meeting Thursday to go over the county budget line by line in an effort to compensate for a $580,000 short fall.

A native of Southwest Oklahoma, she describes herself as honest, hardworking and down to earth.

Harvest Farms provides equine therapy to children with special needs. Doctors said the movement of the horses releases something in the child's brain that allows them to relax.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court aims to block a law requiring abortion providers to report detailed information about women seeking the procedure, the Tulsa World reports.

Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, will deliver the keynote address at the annual Symposium on American Indian Studies Friday at the University of Oklahoma.