• YMCA offers day camp during anticipated teacher walkout

    YMCA offers day camp during anticipated teacher walkout - March 15, 2018

    The Ponca City YMCA is accepting registration from the community for children to attend a day camp during the anticipated teacher walk-out scheduled to start April 2. Spaces for the camp are limite...

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  • OSBI investigating deputy-involved shooting

    OSBI investigating deputy-involved shooting - March 15, 2018

    Just before midnight Wednesday, the Grady County Sheriff’s Department requested OSBI special agents investigate a shooting involving one of its deputies. At approximately 11:15 p.m., two Grady Co...

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  • Teacher pay raise fails in Oklahoma amid looming strike

    Teacher pay raise fails in Oklahoma amid looming strike - March 15, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A plan to give Oklahoma schoolteachers a pay raise has fallen short in the Oklahoma Senate after a package of tax increases to pay for it couldn't get enough votes. Amid a loom...

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  • Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions

    Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions - March 15, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma officials say they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates once the state resumes using the death penalty, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to ca...

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  • School Superintendent Arrott issues letter on teacher walkout, guidance for parents

    School Superintendent Arrott issues letter on teacher walkout, guidance for parents - March 15, 2018

    Following is a letter from Superintendent Shelley Arrott on the proposed teacher walkout on April 2: To All Ponca City Public School Parents, Employees, and Patrons: As most of you have already ...

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  • Coaches’ Corner

    Coaches’ Corner - March 14, 2018

    Host Sean Anderson interviews Boys Golf Coach Bill Stinson in this week's episode of Coaches' Corner: [embed]https://youtu.be/-o1_LFGPlwk[/embed] In Part 2, he visits with Track Coach Lee Guess:...

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  • Attorney says jurors didn’t believe bail agent meant to kill client

    Attorney says jurors didn’t believe bail agent meant to kill client - March 14, 2018

    STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - The defense attorney for an Oklahoma bail agent acquitted of first-degree murder says jurors didn't believe she meant to fatally shoot her client. A Payne County jury found...

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  • Amber Alert CANCELLED

    Amber Alert CANCELLED - March 14, 2018

    An Amber Alert issued for Ruger Cole, 13, of Westville has been CANCELLED. The boy has been found safe, authorities say....

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  • Amber Alert issued for boy, 13, in Westville

    Amber Alert issued for boy, 13, in Westville - March 14, 2018

    The Westville, Oklahoma, Police Department issued an Amber Alert for Ruger Cole, 13, who was last seen at 8:14 a.m. Wednesday at the Westville Public School. Police do not have a clothing descripti...

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  • Players’ lawyers want prosecutors removed from football sex assault case

    Players’ lawyers want prosecutors removed from football sex assault case - March 14, 2018

    BIXBY, Okla. (AP) - Attorneys for four ex-high school football players charged in Oklahoma with sexually assaulting a former teammate want the prosecutor trying the case removed because they say his o...

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