• School Notes

    School Notes - November 08, 2019

    Ponca City High School's Senior Night activities begin at 6 tonight with the football game against Sapulpa starting at 7 p.m. at Sullins Stadium. Monday, Nov. 11, is a Professional Development ...

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  • Cherokee Nation Tribal Council considering funding cuts to some schools

    Cherokee Nation Tribal Council considering funding cuts to some schools - November 08, 2019

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council is considering whether the tribe should cut funding to schools that bar Native American students from observing cultural practices during events....

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  • Stitt pardons member of criminal justice task force

    Stitt pardons member of criminal justice task force - November 08, 2019

    CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has pardoned a member of a task force that is advising him on criminal justice reform. Stitt on Thursday signed a pardon for Rhonda Bear, who serve...

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  • 10 hospitalized from Oklahoma facility after flu shot mix-up

    10 hospitalized from Oklahoma facility after flu shot mix-up - November 08, 2019

    BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say 10 people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were injected with what's believed to be insuli...

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  • Oklahoma woman imprisoned in failure-to-protect case is free

    Oklahoma woman imprisoned in failure-to-protect case is free - November 08, 2019

    MCLOUD, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma woman who failed to report her boyfriend for abusing her children and who spent about 13 years longer in prison than he did for the abuse has been released. Thirty-...

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  • Rep. Ford to hold study on cold cases, missing persons

    Rep. Ford to hold study on cold cases, missing persons - November 08, 2019

    OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. Ross Ford (R-Broken Arrow) will hold an interim study focusing on a method that may help solve many of the state’s cold or missing persons’ cases. The study is set fo...

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  • Ponca City Public Schools offer “Healing After Suicide” training

    Ponca City Public Schools offer “Healing After Suicide” training - November 08, 2019

    The Ponca City School district is offering “Healing After Suicide in a School Community: Helping Parents Help Their Kids” training. Based on recommendations from an Oklahoma State Department of...

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  • USDA invests $4.2 million in rural broadband for Oklahoma families

    USDA invests $4.2 million in rural broadband for Oklahoma families - November 08, 2019

      WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the investment of more than $4.2 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure in Oklahoma. Funded by USDA’s ...

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  • Senator ends effort to name stretch of Route 66 after Trump

    Senator ends effort to name stretch of Route 66 after Trump - November 07, 2019

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma has abandoned his effort to rename a stretch of Route 66 after President Donald Trump. State Sen. Nathan Dahm told the Tulsa World on Wednesd...

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  • Name of suspect in Wetumka man’s murder released

    Name of suspect in Wetumka man’s murder released - November 07, 2019

    WETUMKA, Okla. - The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has identified the suspect arrested at the scene of a Wetumka man's murder. Joshua Gann, 28, was taken into custody by police at the scen...

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