Thackerville News

Tuesday was Election Day for two public schools asking their communities to pass school bonds.

The 22-year-old Tipton soldier is among 13 who died when a gunman opened fire at the post.

A recently married, 22-year-old soldier from southwest Oklahoma was one of the 13 people killed in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, his mother said Friday.

Tulalip Resort Casino Seattle The News: The new hotel and spa opened in summer 2008.

Mary Sisk has had trouble getting around since suffering a stroke ten years ago.

Soooo, what did the modern-day big band man do when he wanted to re-create the sounds of classic 1950s film noir music for his new album, "Songs From Lonely Avenue"? Why, Brian Setzer joined forces with the grandfather of the genre - legendary Frank Comstock, who wrote arrangements for Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Les Brown and Judy Garland.

Today the Winstar Casino celebrated the grand opening of its new hotel. You can't miss the tower and sprawling facility as you drive by on Interstate 35, but if you blink, you might miss the town it's in--tiny Thackerville, Oklahoma.

Casino expansion brings massive job growth to two southern Oklahoma towns. In Durant, the Choctaw casino is adding nearly 1,000 new jobs in the next several week to the Texoma region.

Tommy and Jeannie Scott of Gainesville, TX, and Charlie and Sherry Milam of Thackerville, OK, announce the engagement of their daughter, Susanne Janetta Scott, to Scott Anthony Norris, son of Patrick and Cathy Blythe of Hattiesburg and the late Larry Frank Norris and Joyce Norris of Petal.

THACKERVILLE, Okla. - Kelly Clarkson, the pride of Burleson and heroine of several million American Idol fans, wowed an intimate crowd of about 2,500 Sunday night at the WinStar World Casino, just across the Texas-Oklahoma border.

The reunited rockers will get the tour started with an Oct. 2 performance at Mobile, AL's Bayfest, followed by stops in 11 cities throughout the nation.

Indian casinos are an Oklahoma success story. Smoke aside. Each time a new casino opens, or when a remodeling project is completed, state-of-the-art smoke-sucking machines are touted.

Robert Leroy Anderwald, 75, of Bonham and formerly of Gainesville, passed away Monday May 25, at the Clyde Cosper Texas State Veterans Home in Bonham.

Country singer Ronnie Milsap is set to honor U.S. military heroes at 7:30 Saturday night in Thackerville's Winstar World Casino Global Event Center.

Thackerville, Okla. The Winstar Casino awarded an amazing $779,001 Wheel of Fortune Special Edition MegaJackpot on a penny machine, on Wednesday, May 27th.

The Chickasaw tribe has ordered a safety inspection and review of its huge tent-like covering of its WinStar casino at Thackerville in the wake of the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys' practice facility that was made by the same company.