• Tonkawa Police officer shoots armed man in hand

    Tonkawa Police officer shoots armed man in hand - June 18, 2018

    The Tonkawa Police Department called the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation after one of their officers was involved in a shooting Friday night. The TPD officer made a traffic stop about 10:30 ...

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  • Fleeing man shot in struggle with Oklahoma trooper in Tulsa

    Fleeing man shot in struggle with Oklahoma trooper in Tulsa - June 18, 2018

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Authorities in Tulsa say an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper has shot and wounded a man during a traffic stop. Details are sketchy but the highway patrol says the shooting occurr...

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  • Chamber Chat

    Chamber Chat - June 18, 2018

    The Ponca City Area Chamber of Commerce will have a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Tuesday for 360 Turf and Outdoor Equipment, located at 10395 South U Street. Please join us. Friday, June 22, ...

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  • Texas inmate condemned for TCU professor death loses appeal

    Texas inmate condemned for TCU professor death loses appeal - June 16, 2018

    HOUSTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a 45-year-old man on Texas death row for the 2004 suffocation of a retired TCU professor whose body was found in Oklahoma after she w...

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  • Oklahoma court affirms life sentence in kidnapping, death

    Oklahoma court affirms life sentence in kidnapping, death - June 16, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An appeals court has upheld a man's life prison sentence in the death of an Oklahoma man who had cerebral palsy and delayed cognitive reasoning. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Ap...

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  • Firefighter, 4 others injured in Oklahoma gas line rupture

    Firefighter, 4 others injured in Oklahoma gas line rupture - June 16, 2018

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma firefighter and four other people were injured in an explosion and fire that followed the rupture of a natural gas line in Tulsa. Police say a tractor struck the gas l...

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  • Farmers in rural counties protest Pruitt’s ethanol policies

    Farmers in rural counties protest Pruitt’s ethanol policies - June 16, 2018

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is being met with protests deep in rural areas, as corn farmers, and ethanol producers complain his support for oil and gas is hur...

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  • Less than a week left for absentee ballots for June 26 election

    Less than a week left for absentee ballots for June 26 election - June 15, 2018

    Less than a week remains for registered voters in Kay County to apply for absentee ballots to be mailed to them for the Statewide Primary Election, County Election Board Secretary Cheryl Howard said....

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  • Ponca Playhouse presents Riga-Tony Awards

    Ponca Playhouse presents Riga-Tony Awards - June 15, 2018

    Congratulations to the winners of the 5th Annual Riga-Tony Awards, and to all the nominees and volunteers who made the 59th season such a success! And the winners are: Actor in a Leading Role: Sea...

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  • Community home fire victim identified in Ark City

    Community home fire victim identified in Ark City - June 15, 2018

    ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three area fire departments responded Thursday afternoon to a structure fire in Arkansas City that resulted in one death, but no other serious injuries. The group home, loc...

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