• Collections to Oklahoma treasury reach record highs

    Collections to Oklahoma treasury reach record highs - July 08, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State Treasurer Randy McDaniel says overall collections to the Oklahoma treasury continue to set record highs fueled largely by an influx of federal funding. McDaniel says overa...

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  • Inhofe’s office requests $4M to combat illicit pot growers

    Inhofe’s office requests $4M to combat illicit pot growers - July 08, 2021

    EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe's office is requesting $4 million in federal funds to help combat illegal Oklahoma marijuana growing operations. Inhofe's chief of staff, Luke Holland, a...

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  • Authorities: Train hit, killed Oklahoma man in Mississippi

    Authorities: Train hit, killed Oklahoma man in Mississippi - July 07, 2021

    HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say an Oklahoma man was hit and killed by a train in Mississippi as he stood on the tracks. The 42-year-old was struck in Lamar County on Sunday night. Sheri...

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  • Harvard returning Standing Bear’s tomahawk to Ponca Tribe

    Harvard returning Standing Bear’s tomahawk to Ponca Tribe - July 07, 2021

    BOSTON (AP) — A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, is returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. The universi...

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  • Shawnee superintendent announces plan to run for state post

    Shawnee superintendent announces plan to run for state post - July 07, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Republican superintendent of Shawnee Public Schools says she plans to run for state superintendent in 2022. April Grace announced on Tuesday her plans to run for the GOP ...

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  • Schools open next month, registration details available

    Schools open next month, registration details available - July 06, 2021

    School starts on Wednesday August 18th in Ponca City! The Ponca City Public School District online registration for the 2021-2022 is now open at pcps.us. The Registration Center, at 111 W. Grand...

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  • Accident reported at intersection of Kildare and Pecan

    Accident reported at intersection of Kildare and Pecan - July 06, 2021

    First responders from Newkirk, Kildare, and Ponca City along with a medical helicopter responded to a two-vehicle accident that was reported at 2:37 p.m. on July 4th at the intersection of Kildare Roa...

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  • Ponca City Airport to hold summer celebration

    Ponca City Airport to hold summer celebration - July 06, 2021

    The Ponca City Regional Airport, 2213 N. Waverly, will hold the airport celebration of the summer! The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission and the City of Ponca City will welcome Gov. Kevin Stitt and U...

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  • Rockabilly performer Sanford Clark dead at 85 from COVID-19

    Rockabilly performer Sanford Clark dead at 85 from COVID-19 - July 06, 2021

    JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Rockabilly and country performer Sanford Clark, who had a Top 10 hit with “The Fool” in 1956, has died in Missouri from COVID-19 at age 85. Clark's publicist and fellow per...

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  • Oklahoma death row inmate fighting sentence has died

    Oklahoma death row inmate fighting sentence has died - July 06, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate who was fighting to overturn his death sentence for a 1999 killing in Oklahoma City has died. The Oklahoman reports that 64-year-old Jimmy Dean Harr...

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