Tecumseh News

Roland Mayor Greg Wilson, who is also Roland Ward 1 Trustee, resigned both positions Tuesday night during the town meeting to accept the new position as the town administrator.

The Board of Juvenile Affairs is discussing whether to build a private prison that could result in closing an existing one, possibly the aging L.E. Rader Center in Sand Springs.

Art Beaty, a lifelong resident of Roland, believed he could restore unity within the town of Roland so he pursued the position of the town administrator but after three months Beaty turned in his resignation letter May 12 to the Roland Board of Trustee members.

TECUMSEH, Okla. -- Police in Tecumseh said Thursday that an area man was arrested on nine charges related to what they called a "wild crime spree." Authorities told Eyewitness News 5 that 33-year-old Charles Wilson kidnapped his ex-wife on May 6. But investigators said after she escaped, Wilson burned down her neighbor's home and took a person ...

A man is in custody after taking two hostages, burning down a house and starting a standoff with authorities in Tecumseh, Pottawatomie County Sheriff's deputies said.

A Shawnee man faces a first-degree manslaughter charge in connection with an April 16 stabbing death in Tecumseh.

Officers and deputies from several Pottawatomie County law enforcement agencies conducted a manhunt at and around a salvage yard along SH 9 in Tecumseh Wednesday.

For more than an hour Monday night, Tecumseh city councilors debated a pending re-plat of a new subdivision being planned west of Tecumseh, but ultimately tabled the agenda item for further research.

Seminole Police Officer Adam Good, second from right, is honored during the American Legion banqu... Photo 1 of 10 Army National Guard Spc.

U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin worked on her gubernatorial stump speech Friday afternoon at a legislative luncheon in Shawnee and touched on a broad range of issues including Oklahoma's economic future and what she considers to be unwise spending by the Obama administration.

To teach that drinking and driving can have deadly consequences, Tecumseh High School students attended a mock funeral Wednesday, where each student walked before an open casket and saw a reflection of themselves in a mirror, all to convey the message that it could be any one of them.

U. S. Congresswoman Mary Fallin will be the featured speaker at a joint Shawnee/Tecumseh legislative luncheon at noon, Friday, May 1, at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center, 1899 S. Gordon Cooper Drive.

Maria Rae Quinionez-Sheehan and Scott Sheehan of Tecumseh were married March 14, 2009, at the First Christian Church of Shawnee.

Shawnee Honor Choir will present its spring concert on April 26 at 3 p.m. in Raley Chapel's Yarborough Auditorium on the Oklahoma Baptist University campus.

Tecumseh police and task force investigators continue to probe a man's stabbing death and are asking for any witnesses to contact police.

A man who left Oklahoma with a Tecumseh teen will be brought back to the state on Tuesday to face charges.

Shawnee's annual Habitat for Humanity Fiesta Dinner and silent auctions will be Tuesday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at First Baptist Church's Barton Fellowship Hall at 10th and Union.

Police are investigating a Thursday night stabbing death. Matthew Wayne Weger, 26, died about 9:30 p.m. Thursday at OU Medical Center, Tecumseh Police Chief Gary Crosby said.

Hours after a deadly stabbing in Tecumseh, the search is over for a person wanted for questioning in the incident.

April 17 Dance at the VFW featuring country and western band starts 8 p.m. There is a $5 charge to get in and drinks will be sold inside.