The “front end” is where prevention can happen, where steps can be taken that make prescription help unnecessary, he said.

Zain Caputa was not your average 13-year-old. She lived a life without regrets by doing anything she decided she wanted to do.

A federal judge found Dick's Sporting Goods had a right to terminate its lease at Three Rivers Plaza nearly 10 years before it expired after the limited partnership that managed property failed to fully comply with the negotiated terms of the contract. 

A sorority girl heads to Harvard Law School to win back her boyfriend in the Muskogee High School production of “Legally Blonde the Musical.”

Prosecutors charged a former employee at the Muskogee County Court Clerk’s Office and two others of conspiring to intimidate a witness whose identity allegedly was disclosed in a sealed court document.

The Norman Police Department has released the identity of the male suspect who led multiple law enforcement agencies on a nearly half-hour chase that ended in Norman Monday afternoon. 

Enid High School’s cafeteria was filled Tuesday for Islander Night, Enid’s annual celebration of the Marshallese community and culture, which featured a special guest from the Field Museum in Chicago and the start of a new partnership.

Senate Bill 441, authored by Sen. Marty Quinn, R-Claremore, passed through the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday and would mandate five-day school weeks in Oklahoma.

Detectives with the McAlester Police Department are investigating a double shooting that occurred Tuesday evening in McAlester. 

The McAlester Downtown Tax Increment Financing Review Committee passed an economic development plan on a split 5-to-4 vote after the four dissenting committee members objected to the plan’s lack of specifics.

Local area organizations are teaming up to host a discussion regarding opioid abuse in the community and training about the proper use of a potentially life-saving drug.

In the capital of Cherokee Nation Monday, a large group of locals gathered in the Northeastern State University Webb Auditorium to listen to guest speaker Steve Inskeep, author and host of NPR's "Morning Edition."

Stock trailers and fancy hay bales herald the coming of livestock show season in Muskogee.

Participants in workshops on reproducing historic dresses discovered they don't make dresses like they used to.

A court date has been set for the commander of Troop D Oklahoma Highway Patrol headquarters in McAlester in connection with an alleged blackmail attempt.

When Brad McLelland began working on his master’s degree from Oklahoma State University, one of the first people he met was Louis Sylvester.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Nearly 500 Oklahoma students traveled back in time and met such historical figures as Martha Washington and Benjamin Franklin during the 17th annual Colonial Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol, Friday, Feb. 8. 

Norman police apprehended a suspect Monday afternoon following a chase that originated in Valley Brook, an Oklahoma City suburb about 15 miles north of Norman.

The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents announced Monday that it will hold a special meeting later in the week to discuss "personnel investigation(s)."

The 384-pound vehicle's final resting place, NASA says, happens to be what is called Perseverance Valley. Something fun to write in the astronomy books.

There is almost no way to prepare a family for the news that a child they had been waiting to welcome into the world did not or will not survive. It’s so sudden and so overwhelmingly that only those who have experienced stillbirth can explain it. Stillwater’s Catie MacDonald was away from home, all the way in another state when she went into labor at 18 weeks. A previous pregnancy had been high-risk, but she was told new treatments would allow her to avoid previous complications.

Certain birthdays you dare not forget.

City councilors clung closely to the language of a state question approved by voters in June that legalized medical marijuana in Oklahoma, adopting ordinances that fostered growth of the fledgling industry. 

Muskogee native Elizabeth Ridenour is the new executive editor of the Muskogee Phoenix.

WAGONER — Abigail "Abby" Jackson was stunned when she saw and heard about the low scores among the fourth- and fifth-grade students in resource testing at Central Intermediate School. 

Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee's new vice president and administrator identified three primary objectives she would like to address while overseeing operations of a facility that serves her hometown. 

Movie lovers and film buffs can rejoice as the sixth annual Red Dirt International Film Festival is set to take place March 1-3. More than 70 films, including short films and features, will be showcased at the Best Western Cimarron Plus Hotel and Suites at 315 N. Husband St. in Stillwater.

NORMAN — All told, mankind has been flying for about 115 years now, counting from the Wright Brothers' big accomplishment in the early 20th century.

David Hays remembers his mother Katrina as “the best mother anyone could ask for,” he said.

Casey Gwinn, President of Alliance For Hope International, a California-based nonprofit that assists victims of abuse, said he began to study the connection between domestic abuse and people who shoot police officers a few years ago.

PEARL HARBOR – Modern attack submarines are the most technologically advanced and capable undersea warfighters in the world. Operating these highly complex submarines require sailors from the U.S. Navy’s submarine community, also known as the ‘Silent Service.’

A McAlester man was charged after he is alleged to have kidnapped an individual and held him at gunpoint in a field before allegedly stealing a phone and a tablet from the man.

McAlester police officers should soon be better-equipped to handle any police-pursuit situations that come their way.

"It's (a show) that people have really asked to see a lot over the years, so I thought it would be kind of fun. And I thought it would be a little bit of a challenge in the political climate, because the show is set in the '50s ... so times are very different." — director Tammy Wilson 

The Lord knew what He was doing then and I am confident He knows what He’s doing now. He knows the path He set before me. I need to trust Him as I’ve done so many times before.