Payne County News

Understanding and avoiding heat stress in cattle can be a valuable management tool in Oklahoma, where most areas of the state experience 70 or more days each year with temperatures that exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

It was a deadly weekend in Oklahoma. Since Friday, at least 15 people died in traffic accidents, including a 31-year-old Marlow woman died Friday after a traffic collision on U.S. 81 near Chickasha.

Authorities said a Chickasha teenager drowned while swimming in a pond at a raceway near Coyle in Payne County.

A bond issue to provide $100 million to match some of the private donations to endowed chairs at Oklahoma's colleges and universities won final approval Thursday.

OSU Parking and Transit Services is working to make Stillwater a safer place for teenagers.

The preliminary hearing for a man charged in a triple homicide in Cushing is set to resume.

One man was killed and another was critically injured in a fiery crash Monday in Delaware County, and a woman who was injured in a Payne County motorcycle accident a month ago died from her injuries on Sunday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

A Stillwater Police Officer who worked at Stillwater Junior High has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Fitch Ratings has assigned the following ratings to bonds issued by the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges on behalf of Oklahoma State University .

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or economic stimulus, has had effects that are creating hardships for communities.

A Stillwater police officer has been arraigned on charges accusing him of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Authorities arrested a Stillwater police officer on charges of lewd acts with a 15-year-old student at the junior high school where he worked, police chief Norman McNickle announced Tuesday.

Payne County Health Department officials are testing residents who may have come in contact with a high school student with tuberculosis.

Hail stones the size of tennis balls were reported in Payne County on Friday morning.

Health officials said a student in Cushing has contracted tuberculosis and other students may be at risk.

A 2-year-old Muskogee girl died Tuesday from injuries she suffered in a crash on the Turner Turnpike on Monday, the same day a Bristow man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Payne County.

STILLWATER a ' A police officer testified Monday that a Cushing man accused in the shooting deaths of three people admitted killing the victims and planning to torch the Cushing home where he left their bodies.

State health officials are reporting six new confirmed cases of swine flu in Oklahoma, bringing to 20 the total number of confirmed cases in the state.

A quicker method of methamphetamine production from the 1970s is re-emerging, and so is Oklahoma's battle with the "less pure" homemade drug.

The wildfires that raged across the state in early April have left many wondering about fire regulations and how they are enforced, Stillwater Fire Department officials said.