• Blackwell Chamber cancels Friday’s Eggs and Issues

    Blackwell Chamber cancels Friday’s Eggs and Issues - April 05, 2018

    The Eggs and Issues Legislative Update scheduled by  the Blackwell Chamber of Commerce for Friday has been canceled. Both the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives will be in session Friday...

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  • NERA helping families with food while schools are closed

    NERA helping families with food while schools are closed - April 05, 2018

    To help during this time, the New Emergency Resource Agency will allow families with children, in the schools affected, to shop for food at its facility located at 112 South First Street in Ponca City...

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  • School out Friday

    School out Friday - April 05, 2018

    School WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY, APRIL 6 to allow teachers to advocate for school funding at the State Capitol....

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  • Ethics lawyer said information withheld in opinion on Scott Pruitt

    Ethics lawyer said information withheld in opinion on Scott Pruitt - April 05, 2018

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- An Environmental Protection Agency lawyer says he wasn't provided the full facts when he ruled there was no ethics violation in Administrator Scott Pruitt's lease of a bargain...

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  • Suspicious fire set on South Oak

    Suspicious fire set on South Oak - April 04, 2018

    A suspicious fire was reported about 3:45 a.m.  Wednesday, March 21, at a small structure behind 336 South Oak. This vacant apartment sits on the alley and was not occupied at the time of the fire. ...

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  • Oklahoma City behavioral health counselor pleads guilty to defrauding Medicaid

    Oklahoma City behavioral health counselor pleads guilty to defrauding Medicaid - April 04, 2018

      OKLAHOMA CITY – Samuel Okere, 61, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, ...

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  • Fallin compares teachers to ‘teenage kid that wants a better car’

    Fallin compares teachers to ‘teenage kid that wants a better car’ - April 04, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says public school teachers who are striking for more classroom funding are like "a teenage kid that wants a better car." In an interview with CBS New...

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  • Po-Hi students speak at Capitol on education funding

    Po-Hi students speak at Capitol on education funding - April 04, 2018

    Po-Hi student Tinika Bright, of the Ponca City F.O.R. Club, spoke to teachers on Wednesday inside the Capitol about education funding. She compared the education of Massachusetts and Texas to Oklah...

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  • Oklahoma educators march for student funding

    Oklahoma educators march for student funding - April 04, 2018

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Some Oklahoma educators and their supporters have begun a 110-mile march to urge state lawmakers to increase funding for classrooms. More than 100 people set out from Webster Hig...

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  • McCord School closed Thursday and Friday

    McCord School closed Thursday and Friday - April 04, 2018

    McCord School will be closed Thursday and Friday, according to Principal and Superintendent Beverly Hawkins Moore....

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