Wellston News

The Police Department will partner with a local church Saturday to raise awareness about community crime prevention.

An Iowa Tribe firefighter who was seriously burned while fighting a wildfire in April has gone home after two months and two days in an Oklahoma City hospital.

"Pretty Miss Norma Jean" may be best remembered as Porter Wagoner's stage partner before he was paired with Dolly Parton, but she was also well known for an often hard-edged group of songs that spoke of poverty, hard work, and the instability of romantic relationships.

Motorists traveling the Turner Turnpike Tuesday, May 5, and Wednesday, May 6, will experience periodic closures around Chandler.

Chandler's third-ranked, Class 3A Lions overcame a 1-0 deficit Saturday en route to handing Wellston a 12-2 setback.

Lincoln County 4-Hers recently showed each other and judges their talents in cooking and serving.

Firefighter David Milby of the Iowa Fire Department remains in critical condition with burns to 26 percent of his body from fighting last week's wildfires.

A Louisiana-based company has put on hold a $1.4 million lawsuit against four Oklahoma cities.

The town of Wellston sustained substantial damage last week after grassfires sprung up throughout the state.

As many of you probably know, a bunch of wind-whipped wildfires scorched central Oklahoma earlier in the week and in some cases caused widespread property damage.

Tulsa World, Okla. Middle Apr. 11--WELLSTON -- Firefighter Charles Danker called it a scene of "hell on Earth," his description of a fast-moving wildfire that threatened this Lincoln County community and forced its 900 residents to flee for their lives.

Damage assessments continued Friday, one day after fires raged through central Oklahoma, destroying homes and charring thousands of acres.

High winds are fueling grass fires across the state. A grassfire has destroyed multiple structures near Wellston, in Lincoln County about 30 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.

According to radio traffic and Associated Press reports, grass fires in Carter County are forcing the evacuation of residents along State Highway 7 Thursday afternoon.

Jimmie E. Stone, 81, of Meeker, formerly of Hartshorne, died Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at his home.

A Bixby man is in jail after police made a traffic stop and found a missing Oklahoma girl he met through an online chat site.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' A Wellston man who admitted he was driving drunk when he caused a fatal crash in 2005 has been spared a prison sentence.

Washington Post columnist George Will recently has written of how the national Endowment for the Humanities is distributing to schools throughout the nation a compilation of 40 works of art titled "Picturing ...

Two motorists try to escape their car which overturned on ice on the Turner Turnpike near the Wellston exit outside of Wellston, OK, Monday, Jan.

District Court Regina Marie Simmons, 29, 1123 N. Oklahoma, was charged in Pottawatomie County District Court with false declaration of ownership.