• YMCA approves financial reports

    YMCA approves financial reports - August 20, 2015

    The board of the Ponca City YMCA voted Thursday to approve a report on the facility's financials through July 15. Total income for the month ending July 15 was $145,724.87, with expenses totaling ...

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  • Feds charge Oklahoma senator with wire fraud, false tax returns

    Feds charge Oklahoma senator with wire fraud, false tax returns - August 20, 2015

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged a two-term Oklahoma state senator with wire fraud and filing a false tax return in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $1.8 million from...

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  • ACT college-prep test to be offered to all Oklahoma juniors

    ACT college-prep test to be offered to all Oklahoma juniors - August 20, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Every high school junior in Oklahoma will have the opportunity to take the ACT college-preparatory test free of charge under a pilot program being launched by state education offi...

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  • Bond withdrawn for ex-officer, leaving him in Oklahoma jail

    Bond withdrawn for ex-officer, leaving him in Oklahoma jail - August 20, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women remains in jail after his bondsman dropped him as a client. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/1WF23XE )...

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  • Guard at ‘Muslim-free’ gun range accidentally shoots self

    Guard at ‘Muslim-free’ gun range accidentally shoots self - August 20, 2015

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A man guarding a small-town Oklahoma gun range and survivalist shop that declared itself a "Muslim-free" business dropped his weapon and accidentally shot himself. Autho...

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  • Panel reports Oklahoma pension systems’ earnings decline

    Panel reports Oklahoma pension systems’ earnings decline - August 20, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A panel overseeing the state's seven pension systems reports each experienced a major drop in investment earnings over the last fiscal year compared to both the previous year and...

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  • Habitat for Humanity house-raising set for Saturday

    Habitat for Humanity house-raising set for Saturday - August 19, 2015

    The Ponca City Habitat for Humanity has an opportunity for volunteers to work on a housing blitz from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 22, at the "Hampton's Hope" project on Peachtree Stree...

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  • Friendship Feast celebration Aug. 30

    Friendship Feast celebration Aug. 30 - August 19, 2015

    Friendship Feast will have a 25 Year Anniversary Reunion from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at First Christian Church, 210 North Fifth Street. The come-and-go reception will be in the Fellowship Hall...

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  • 13-year-old Tulsa boy charged in 2-year-old cousin’s death

    13-year-old Tulsa boy charged in 2-year-old cousin’s death - August 19, 2015

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A 13-year-old boy has been charged in the death of his 2-year-old cousin in Tulsa. According to Assistant District Attorney Sarah McAmis, the boy was charged Tuesday with child ...

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  • GOP senator proposes tobacco fund raid for teacher pay hikes - August 19, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Republican state senator from Woodward is proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the state to raid money from Oklahoma's Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust fund to pay f...

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