It could be said Enrique Gomez' two businesses balance each other out.

A monthly tradition at the Warner United Methodist Church has exploded into an event of recognition.

As we left last Sunday’s installment, our traveling trio (grandchild, Maya, 9, bride, Debbie, and myself) were in Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, where we stayed two nights in a hotel near their international airport. Early the next morning, we were shuttled to the nearby terminal to board a commuter flight. To our total surprise, because we were flying a small aircraft to King Salmon, about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage, we did not have to pass through a TSA inspection area. In today’s traveling world, not having any TSA airline requirements to pass through, was really strange to us!

The ministry operates a men’s house at 216 W. Oak. Former inmates and men suffering from addiction stay in the affordable transition house anywhere from six months to a year.

Tyson Foods donated 10,000 pounds of chicken to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma last Wednesday, part of a total 15,000-pound donation to benefit food pantries in 53 counties.

WARNER — Weatherford resident Ingrid Law drove nearly three hours on Saturday to get lucky on Cow Chip Bingo.

A positive reception from the Public Works Committee spelled good news for a steering committee dedicated to improving transportation infrastructure in Muskogee.

The opening of the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts means a number of things for the Stillwater community. It allows OSU to host world-class performances, but also opens the doors for students to learn from some of the best in the business.

RIPLEY – Two individuals tied to Ripley Public Schools in Payne County have been snared in a prostitution crime sting, according to multiple reports.

Seeing his mother be dragged screaming and crying from the court room, Alton Carter vowed, “Never in a million years will a judge tell me I’m not fit to be a father.”

The law regarding child abuse, including discipline taken to extreme, is considered outdated and open to interpretation. It hasn't been updated since the 1960s.

Next week, Oct. 14-18, the School Nutrition Association celebrates National School Lunch Week, established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to "promote the importance of a healthy school lunch in a child's life and the impact it has inside and outside of the classroom."

The boat isn’t much — an aluminum tray, a copper coil, and a tea candle — but it sputters along the water anyway, to the cheering amazement of the spectating eighth-graders. Of course they’re excited; after all, they built the boat.

TAFT — Daniel Roberts went to prison for simple drug possession in early 2017 — but a January 2019 ruling on State Question 780 retroactively designated his crime as a misdemeanor, not a felony. Roberts is one of 700 Oklahoma Department of Corrections inmates due for release in November as a result.

Agents from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation continue to investigate a Friday night fatal deputy-involved shooting near the town of Pittsburg.

Just like that, the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts has begun its inaugural season. The opening gala Friday night saw the New York Philharmonic and Kelli O’Hara christen the concert hall on its opening night.

The Tahlequah Police Department on Friday released the body camera footage of Monday’s officer-involved fatal shooting, and Police Chief Nate King said it shows officers acted courageously.

The baby girl wouldn't wait to go the extra two miles to the hospital, so Cantrell had to pull into the parking lot of the old Hastings store in Sunset Plaza at Garriott and Cleveland.

A Garfield County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested a 26-year-old Enid woman on drug complaints and possession of a stolen vehicle early Wednesday morning.

In anticipation of the 2020 count, the Census Bureau is looking to hire thousands of people for temporary jobs.

A man accused of fleeing from police in a stolen FedEx truck earlier in the week was charged Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Garfield County District Court.

Despite blustery breezes, nurses giving free influenza vaccinations during a drive-through flu clinic did a brisk business Friday outside the Pittsburg County Health Department.

United Supermarket at 4110 W. Garriott in Enid is scheduled to close at the end of the year, according to a corporate email.

Overall student production is up by 34 percent from fiscal year 2017 to 2021, Simmons said. In order to keep up with those figures, there's work needed on the runways.

McAlester police plan a major upgrade in body cameras worn by police officers — and the U.S. Department of Justice is helping pay for it.

To spank or not to spank: That's a question parents have faced since time out of mind. Some parents do it, and others would never think of it.