Pittsburg County News

A convenience store in southeastern Oklahoma has sold a Powerball ticket worth $32.8 million.

He says he's in it to win. District 18 State Rep. Terry Harrison, D-McAlester, says he is going to be a candidate in 2010 for the District 18 district attorney's post, which covers Pittsburg and Haskell counties.

November 19- An East Tulsa family loses their home in an overnight fire. It happened just after 12:30 near 31st & 129th East Avenue.

McAlester-area residents were already filing into the Pittsburg County Health Department this morning, after learning that Influenza A H1N1 swine flu virus shots are now available to the general public.

A preliminary hearing will be held next month in Pittsburg County for a convicted child rapist indicted by a grand jury on new counts of child sexual abuse.

It's finally time. The Pittsburg County Health Department announced near noon today that vaccinations for the Influenza A H1N1 swine virus are available to anyone who wants one at the Pittsburg County Health Department.

A preliminary hearing date in the case where a Pittsburg County grand jury indicted convicted felon David Harold Earls on new counts in August has been set, to determine if there is sufficient evidence to bind him over for trial on the three counts the grand jury returned against him.

In the midst of autumn and with winter looming, the spring storm season may still seem a long way away - but as Oklahoma residents know, severe weather can strike anytime the conditions align.

The state plans to use $6.7 million in federal disaster aid to buy back crabbing licenses.

A Baltimore police spokesman says Dante Parrish was arrested last night in east Baltimore.

A Pittsburg County man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a deer in dense fog in eastern Oklahoma.

Pittsburg County Retired Educators will have a regular monthly meeting Friday at 11 a.m. at The Meeting Place, 104 E. Choctaw Ave.

A man who was seriously injured in a September traffic accident in Pittsburg County has died, authorities said.

A Kiowa man has been charged with five felonies following a case investigated by Kiowa Police and the District 18 Narcotics Task Force.

A McAlester teenager was killed in a Saturday morning crash in Pittsburg County.

Some locations near McAlester's city limits that already have street-style addresses are being re-addressed as part of a county-wide 911 plan.

Call it graffiti or call it "tagging," it's still a crime called vandalism. Vandals spray painted graffiti on a wall at the Charles Komar & Sons distribution facility, 400 W. Chickasaw Ave., on Thursday night.

Mary Herandy, vice-president of the Blue Star Mothers of Pittsburg County, spoke at the monthly Kilihoti chapter meeting held Oct.

At the Oct. 6 meeting of the Pittsburg County Genealogical and History Society, Thomas Purdin, assisted by Connie Masters, of the McAlester Archeological Society, provided a presentation entitled "Archaeology is not what you find, but what you find out." The four archaeological sites on the Illinois River they have been working are of ...

Pittsburg County Commissioners authorized payment Monday of hundreds of thousands of dollars for work done on voter-approved projects and chose a state corrections industry agency to purchase furnishings to outfit the refurbished Pittsburg County Courthouse.