Osage County News

A Ponca City woman was killed Tuesday when her car was struck by a truck after she failed to yield from a stop sign, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Narcotic agents in Oklahoma say there's growing evidence of Mexico drug operations near or on Indian reservations.

Estelle loves Violet. That's Estelle Parsons , the indomitable, Oscar-winning actor who is playing Violet Weston, the pill-popping, booze-swigging, acid-tongue matriarch of an Oklahoma family that is imploding over the disappearance of Violet's husband at the start of "August: Osage County." Violet Weston is the engine that propels Tracy Letts' ...

Had you going there for a minute, didn't I? Nearing the celebration of my bicentennial column and then a few months later, the fourth anniversary of the beginning of these weekly reflections, I thought that during the next two weeks I would share some thoughts on taking my initial steps down the creative path that has led me to this time and place.

An Osage County woman was killed Monday when her car hit a pickup on Prue Road, and a man who was injured in a September traffic accident in Pittsburg County has died, authorities said.

School bond issues at Pawhuska and Mounds are among just a few proposals Tulsa-area voters will face in Tuesday's elections.

Friends, family, and former students and colleagues will gather to honor the late Howard Starks, a distinguished long-time teacher at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, with two readings of his poetry on Nov.

Toronto's theatregoers will be transported to the bustling house of a northern Oklahoma dynasty in turmoil this Thursday when Pulitzer-and Tony-winning play August: Osage County begins an 11-day run at the Canon Theatre, with Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons in the lead role as Violet, matriarch of the Weston clan.

RELUCTANT POLITICIAN Republican mayoral candidate Dewey Bartlett: Bartlett Jr. has followed in his father's footsteps, first into the oil business and later, somewhat reluctantly, into politics.

SENTENCED Kyle Willaford: A judge sentenced the former police officer to community service and substance-abuse treatment.

Members of the Shidler Fire Department are nothing if not tenacious. It took them four years of selling hamburgers at local events, holding raffles and other ways but they finally raised $100,000 for a new ambulance.

An entire family, including a woman who works for Oklahoma's Office of Juvenile Affairs, was charged Tuesday with growing marijuana.

The Environmental Protection Agency an Oklahoma City firm for violating the federal Clean Water Act.

Owasso Public Schools Proposition 1 $18.7 million bond for school construction Passed 946 to 282 Proposition 2 $1 million bond for transportation equipment Passed 970 to 256 Sand Springs Public Schools Proposition 1 $42.160 million bond for school construction Passed 1,733 to 320 Proposition 2 $450,000 bond for transportation equipment Passed 1,752 ...

Officials in the Sands Springs school district used an aggressive, get-it-out approach when it came to detailing Tuesday's bond election, Superintendent Lloyd Snow said.

Four women from Ohio and Michigan were killed Sunday afternoon in a 3-vehicle pileup near the Osage county town of Barnsdall.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol identifies the dead as 69-year-old Christine Fulghum, 85-year-old Martha Jacobs and Lavonne Gantt all of Toledo, Ohio, and 84-year-old Norma Otterstetter of Southgate, Mich.

A former law enforcement officer was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing a child relative.

OKLAHOMA CITY Congress' failure to extend federal highway funding means that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation will have only $7.9 million to spend on road and bridge construction contracts in November rather than the $53 million officials were anticipating, ODOT Director Gary Ridley said Monday.

A former police officer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing a now 16-year-old girl in Tulsa County.