• School Blood Drives Needed as Supply Plummets

    School Blood Drives Needed as Supply Plummets - September 01, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 1, 2020) – As blood supplies have dwindled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister today urged schools to host drives for...

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  • Visitation to Restart at Federal Prisons in October

    Visitation to Restart at Federal Prisons in October - August 31, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, almost seven months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U...

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  • Kansas Man Gets 10 years in Oklahoma Cold Case

    Kansas Man Gets 10 years in Oklahoma Cold Case - August 31, 2020

    VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the deaths of two people and the disappearance of two teenage girls more than 20 years ago. Ronnie Busi...

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  • Appeals Court Rejects OKC Anti-Panhandling Law

    Appeals Court Rejects OKC Anti-Panhandling Law - August 31, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City law that places restrictions on panhandling on street medians is an unconstitutional violation of free speech, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. The dec...

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  • Business Owners Can Get Their Share of $500 Billion

    Business Owners Can Get Their Share of $500 Billion - August 31, 2020

    PONCA CITY, OK -- Pioneer Tech is hosting two free webinars that will help businesses gain a better understanding of how to sell to government agencies. For 35 years, Procurement Technical Assistance ...

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  • Special Absentee Voting Options Valid for Nov. 3 General Election

    Special Absentee Voting Options Valid for Nov. 3 General Election - August 31, 2020

    When Governor Stitt extended his Executive Order last Friday, continuing the State of Emergency due to COVID-19, it automatically kicked in the special absentee voter provisions for the November 3 Gen...

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  • US Phase 3 Clinical Testing of Possible Vaccine Begins

    US Phase 3 Clinical Testing of Possible Vaccine Begins - August 31, 2020

    (People 18 years of age and older who are interested in participating in this trial can visit coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org (link is external) or ClinicalTrials.gov and search identifier N...

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  • House Members Named to Redistricting Committees

    House Members Named to Redistricting Committees - August 31, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY – In a historic move, all Oklahomans will have direct representation in the House of Representatives redistricting process after House Speaker Charles McCall appointed all House membe...

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  • PCPS Team Store – Place Orders by September 14

    PCPS Team Store – Place Orders by September 14 - August 31, 2020

    The Ponca City Public Schools Face Coverings Team Store is open once more through September 14, 2020! Available for purchase are youth and adult size masks and activity masks, or neck gaiters. A sizin...

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  • Investigation Clears Lawton Vet Center of Allegations

    Investigation Clears Lawton Vet Center of Allegations - August 31, 2020

    Veteran’s Caucus Chair, Pro Tempore comment on independent investigation of Lawton Veterans Center OKLAHOMA CITY - Sen. Paul Rosino, Senate chair of the Legislative Veterans Caucus, said an indep...

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