• City posts holiday closings

    City posts holiday closings - December 16, 2015

    The City of Ponca City will observe Thursday, December 24, and Friday, December 25, as City Holidays: Residential Refuse WILL NOT BE PICKED UP on Thursday, December 24, or Friday, December...

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  • Oklahoma justices to hear challenge to penny education tax

    Oklahoma justices to hear challenge to penny education tax - December 16, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's highest court is expected to hear arguments in a challenge to an initiative petition for a public vote on a penny sales tax for education. The state's highest court pl...

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  • Houston man charged with defrauding Oklahoma City company

    Houston man charged with defrauding Oklahoma City company - December 16, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Houston man has been charged in federal court with 12 counts of mail and wire fraud for allegedly defrauding an Oklahoma City company that makes hoses and fittings for the oil a...

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  • Woman ordered to stand trial in desecration case

    Woman ordered to stand trial in desecration case - December 16, 2015

    PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) - A judge says a woman must face trial on charges that she contributed to the death and dismemberment of a man in 2012. Amber Andrews was charged with first-degree murder, de...

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  • Westville officer struck

    Westville officer struck - December 16, 2015

    WESTVILLE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say an eastern Oklahoma police officer is in critical condition after he was struck in a hit-and-run during a police pursuit. The Adair County Sheriff's Offi...

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  • Enid firefighter fired over pointing laser at plane

    Enid firefighter fired over pointing laser at plane - December 16, 2015

    ENID, Okla. (AP) - An Enid Fire Department captain accused of pointing a laser into the cockpit of an airplane has been fired. The Fire Civil Service Commission unanimously voted Monday to terminate...

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  • State Republicans to keep  closed primary election

    State Republicans to keep closed primary election - December 16, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Republican Party says it will not open its primary elections to independent voters. Democrats had previously announced that they would let independent voters take ...

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  • Woman charged in death of Oklahoma widower she met in June

    Woman charged in death of Oklahoma widower she met in June - December 16, 2015

    CORDELL, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma prosecutors have charged a woman in the shooting death of a widower who let her move in after they met through Craigslist following the death of his wife of nearly 40 ye...

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  • The Poncan to show “Christmas Vacation” Dec. 19

    The Poncan to show “Christmas Vacation” Dec. 19 - December 15, 2015

    The Poncan Theatre will have a special showing of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. Tickets will be $5 a person, sold at the door. Holiday coffees an...

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  • Oklahoma County D.A. tackles runaway defendant

    Oklahoma County D.A. tackles runaway defendant - December 15, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Surveillance cameras at the Oklahoma County courthouse have captured video of a defendant trying to escape deputies and being tackled to the ground by the district attorney and se...

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