• Winter weather preparedness: Have a plan

    Winter weather preparedness: Have a plan - January 13, 2017

    Ponca City's Emergency Management Director Paula Cain has shared information for getting through this weekend's ice storm, as well as future winter storms. Have A Plan Discuss with your family...

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  • Details in gunbattle for Oklahoma fugitive revealed

    Details in gunbattle for Oklahoma fugitive revealed - January 13, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper says his goal was to put a fugitive on the defensive when he fired at the suspect through the windshield of his patrol vehicle during a vehicle ...

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  • Documentary about unsolved Mullendore murder case to show at Poncan Theatre

    Documentary about unsolved Mullendore murder case to show at Poncan Theatre - January 13, 2017

    Oklahoma writer and columnist Dale R. Lewis, aka “the Original Buffalo Dale” has completed a documentary titled "Footprints in the Dew: The Last Ten Tapes." The film is based on the extensive int...

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  • More than 15,000 care packages sent by Operation Pioneer Spirit

    More than 15,000 care packages sent by Operation Pioneer Spirit - January 13, 2017

    Who would have thought back in August of 2006 when a handful of newly formed Operation Pioneer Spirit volunteers packed and mailed 19 care packages that 11 years later more than 15,000 boxes...

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  • Man charged with pointing knife at child during US flight

    Man charged with pointing knife at child during US flight - January 13, 2017

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma man is facing federal charges after allegedly holding a knife to a child's stomach during a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Tulsa that was forced to land in Las V...

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  • Oklahoma House speaker endorses $6,000 teacher pay increase

    Oklahoma House speaker endorses $6,000 teacher pay increase - January 13, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - New House Speaker Charles McCall is endorsing a pay increase for Oklahoma teachers that would phase in a $6,000 pay raise during a three-year period. McCall said in a statement r...

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  • Repeat DUI offender is formally charged in fatal crash

    Repeat DUI offender is formally charged in fatal crash - January 13, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 30-year-old Oklahoma man who has pleaded guilty to four driving under the influence of alcohol charges has been formally charged in connection with a deadly alcohol-related coll...

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  • Guitarist who avoided Buddy Holly plane crash dies at 85

    Guitarist who avoided Buddy Holly plane crash dies at 85 - January 13, 2017

    HOUSTON (AP) - Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper"...

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  • The latest closings for Friday, Jan.13

    The latest closings for Friday, Jan.13 - January 13, 2017

    Closings today include: Pioneer Technology Center, Ponca City,will be closed Friday because of weather and closed Monday for MLK Jr. Day. Ponca City Public Schools Ponca City Assembly ...

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  • Oklahoma governor issues emergency declaration for ice storm

    Oklahoma governor issues emergency declaration for ice storm - January 13, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Gov. Mary Fallin has declared a state of emergency for all 77 Oklahoma counties in advance of a winter storm that's forecast to bring crippling ice accumulations and heavy rain to...

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