Wagoner News

Three people are dead and another hospitalized after their vehicle drove off a road Thursday night near Coweta and became partly submerged in water.

Stanley Young drives over the Richard D. Newkirk bridge on Oklahoma 51 east of Wagoner several times a month.

A longtime Wagoner bank employee was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison for embezzling more than $5 million from more than 80 accounts to underwrite her husband's horse-racing business.

Tahlequah police responded to a robbery call early Tuesday and ended up making a drunken driving arrest.

Voters in Muskogee County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the July 29 Statewide Primary Election have until 5 p.m. July 23 to apply.

The Court Appointed Special Advocate program recently named Shelby Lester of Muskogee and Randy Patterson of Wagoner "Advocates of the Year." Patterson has been a CASA since 2002 and advocated for 23 children.

Jury selection will resume at 9 a.m. today in the first-degree murder trial of a Muskogee man charged in the August 2005 shooting death of his nephew.

Muskogee police arrested a 19-year-old man Sunday after a two-hour standoff on the city's southwest side ended without incident.

The disparity between boys and girls athletic programs at Wagoner Public Schools violates federal law and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal lawsuit.

The boy died Thursday night in a Tulsa hospital.

Cannon says it appears that the boy wandered out of his home.

Tahlequah police are looking for a suspect in a Sunday night armed robbery of a local convenience store.

Wagoner County Sheriff Deputies and Cherokee Nation Marshals pause outside the Wagoner County Courthouse after reaffirming their cross-deputization agreement.

Cherokee County prosecutors filed charges Monday on a Muskogee man accused of feloniously pointing a firearm.

A 71-year-old Checotah man was injured early Thursday when a horse ran southbound and collided with the van he was driving on Oklahoma 266.

Wagoner County is moving forward with a plan to cross-deputize local law enforcement.

Oklahoma's Junior Miss, Kaileigh Bullard of Wagoner, has been named one of eight finalists for the title of America's Junior Miss 2008.

Enrollment is now open for the annual Summer Writing Camp for July 14-17 at St. Joseph School.

Since 1994, thousands of American military men and women have gone from serving on the frontlines to committing to an entirely different type of mission: Serving as classroom teachers.

Thunderbird Youth Academy recently has announced the graduation of 94 cadets including Kasey L. Goad of Muskogee and Ryan S. Cowan of Porter.

Karen and her husband John built their 6,500 square foot home by Lake Fort Gibson more than 20 years ago.