• Record number of emergency teachers certified in Oklahoma

    Record number of emergency teachers certified in Oklahoma - December 26, 2016

    (Information from: The Oklahoman, http://www.newsok.com) OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma State Board of Education has approved a record number of certificates for emergency teachers to fill vacanci...

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  • Nearly $870M budget hole awaits Oklahoma lawmakers in 2017

    Nearly $870M budget hole awaits Oklahoma lawmakers in 2017 - December 25, 2016

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - There will be familiar problems for Oklahoma lawmakers in the 2017 session, as well as a budget hole that's about 12 percent of state funding. It will be the third consecutive ye...

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  • The Latest: Oklahoma lawmaker in harassment case resigns

    The Latest: Oklahoma lawmaker in harassment case resigns - December 25, 2016

    The Latest: Oklahoma lawmaker in harassment case resigns OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma lawmaker who's been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint and subsequent quietly arranged settlement h...

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  • Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon tearfully apologizes for punching woman

    Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon tearfully apologizes for punching woman - December 24, 2016

    NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon made a tearful public apology Friday, more than two years after punching a woman and breaking bones in her face. Mixon was suspended for a year af...

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  • Oklahoma airport gunman was intoxicated when he shot himself

    Oklahoma airport gunman was intoxicated when he shot himself - December 23, 2016

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An autopsy report says the man who fatally shot a Southwest Airlines employee at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was intoxicated when he later killed himself. The repor...

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  • Amid court challenge, Oklahoma liquor stores plan for change

    Amid court challenge, Oklahoma liquor stores plan for change - December 23, 2016

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma liquor retailers are wondering how they will fit into a new regulatory landscape as they challenge sweeping voter-approved guidelines that expand wine and strong beer sal...

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  • Semi trailer fire on Cimarron Turnpike

    Semi trailer fire on Cimarron Turnpike - December 22, 2016

    Reader Dave Wehr submitted this photo at 9:43 a.m. Thursday showing smoke from a semi trailer fire near the toll booth at the Cimarron Turnpike entrance to Enid, south of Ponca City. If you see ne...

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  • Shooting victim identified

    Shooting victim identified - December 21, 2016

    The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has identified Ian Shea King, 31, as the man shot and killed by Ponca City officers Wednesday morning. King assaulted a delivery man at the Valero store ...

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  • 911 calls released in shooting

    911 calls released in shooting - December 21, 2016

    Following are the 911 calls during the early morning shooting at Grand Avenue and Union Street. The series of calls begins with a clerk at the Valero store at Oak and Grand calling 911 to report a bee...

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  • Students practice math skills with golf - December 21, 2016

    Great things are happening in Ponca City Public Schools with the Engage2Learn framework.   Students in Cortney Sheid’s sixth grade math class recently learned about adding and subtracting negative ...

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