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Martin Luther King holiday Monday - January 16, 2015
The City of Ponca City will observe Martin Luther King Day on Monday as a city holiday. City offices will be closed. Residential refuse will not be picked up Monday. Service resumes Tuesday. The Ma...
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‘Don’t Dress for Dinner’ opens tonight - January 16, 2015
The Ponca Playhouse presentation of "Don't Dress for Dinner," a farce of mistaken identities, opens tonight. The play runs Friday through Sunday and Jan. 23-25. Bernard plans a romantic w...
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Cherokee Nation awarded health project - January 16, 2015
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - The Cherokee Nation has been awarded an Indian Health Service Joint Venture Construction Program project that will add a new facility to the tribe's W.W. Hastings Hospital in T...
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Oklahoma inmate executed - January 16, 2015
By SEAN MURPHY/Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma has put to death its first inmate since a botched execution last year prompted the state to rewrite its lethal injection protocols. C...
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Kaw Lake eagle watch Saturday - January 15, 2015
The Kaw Lake Ultimate Eagle Watch is Saturday, with multiple events and locations. One component is eagle viewing by horseback with guides Rick Boyd and Lori Young. Riders will meet at Sarge Creek Ca...
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Woman remains hospitalized after shooting - January 15, 2015
Amber Lee Oleary, 31, remains hospitalized at Ponca City Medical Center today after she was shot Wednesday evening at Third Street and Cleveland Avenue. The Communications Center re...
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Shooting victim remains hospitalized - January 15, 2015
Amber Lee Oleary, 31, remains hospitalized at Ponca City Medical Center today after she was shot Wednesday evening at Third Street and Cleveland Avenue. The Communications Center received a...
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Sentinal Police Chief shot; schools closed - January 15, 2015
SENTINEL, Okla. (AP) - The police chief in Sentinel is hospitalized after being shot four times while attempting to arrest a man who allegedly made a bomb threat. Mayor Sam Dlugonski says Chief Louis...
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No utility service at house where two died - January 15, 2015
A home where two people were found dead on Wednesday had no utility service, Ponca City Police confirmed through their investigation. Police officials also spoke with the owner of the property, who t...
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Oklahoma execution set for tonight - January 15, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma plans to execute a death row inmate with the same three-drug method Florida intends to use about an hour earlier. The lethal injection set for Thursday comes after a nea...
