Ottawa County News

A former area band instructor has been charged in connection with multiple counts of sexual abuse in Ottawa County, Okla., according to court records.

A former Wyandotte band teacher is being held on $650,000 bail in connection the alleged molestation of former students, the Ottawa County Sheriffa s office said Tuesday.

" A three-time convicted drug trafficker was arrested early Friday after using a fake court document to hoodwink the Lawton Correction Facility into releasing him from prison.

PICHER, Okla. - As spooky as it sounds, one of the nation's most toxic sites has been used as the cinematic backdrop for a hard-core horror flick by two independent film producers.

Meal services for some seniors in Commerce are being eliminated at the end of the month after the Oklahoma Department of Human Services recently cut its budget by 30 percent.

As much as 6 inches of rain on parts of Northeast Oklahoma was too much for the municipal offices of one Ottawa County town.

The State Department of Transportation is advising motorists of road closings because of high water.

The town of Picher, epicenter of one of the largest environmental disasters in the nation, technically ceased to exist last month.

Faith-based programs are the key to turning around the drug problems in northeast Oklahoma, a state official said Wednesday.

Family members of the 10 people who were killed when a tractor-trailer rig slammed into a line of stopped cars on a turnpike have sued the truck's driver and his employer.

About 75 people turned out for a town meeting Thursday evening to hear city and school leaders discuss "sexting" and the abuse of prescription drugs in Fairland.

MIAMI, Okla., - - Maybe this weekend will be different. Maybe not. Last weekend, two unrelated emergency calls left local law enforcement officers investigating a couple of strange cases.

MIAMI, Okla. a ' A Wyandotte man charged with assaulting a police officer after he tried to run over him with a horse is free on bail, the sheriffa TMs office confirmed Wednesday.

The Delaware County jail, despite a threat of fines by the state for overcrowding, was able to handle the influx of 35 inmates after a state drug raid, according to the sheriff's office.

MIAMI, Okla. - Drug agents served 70 search warrants Monday morning before dawn in what the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics calls the largest operation in the state.

The driver of a tractor-trailer that slammed into a line of stopped cars on a turnpike in northeastern Oklahoma, killing 10 people, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 10 misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide.

A Missouri truck driver charged with 10 counts of negligent homicide for a multi-car accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike turned himself in Wednesday morning in Ottawa County.

In this June 26 file photo, medical helicopters line up on the shoulder of the Will Rogers Turnpike northeast of Miami, Okla., ready to take injured people to hospitals in Joplin, Mo.

An Ottawa County commissioner recently ordered the closure of the Beaver Creek Bridge on County Road 630.

The Ottawa County district attorney's office filed a kidnapping charge Tuesday against a 44-year-old man accused of taking a woman to Oklahoma from Kansas and holding her captive.