RT)--Enid Public Schools recently was awarded a $60,000 grant from The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) for wellness programs. The TSET Board of Directors awarded $387,500 in Healthy Incentive Grants to 25 school districts and sites across the state. EPS Superintendent Dudley Darrow said the fun...

HR)--The Enid Police Department is seeking the public’s help in finding the driver of a pickup involved in a hit-and-run accident Sunday afternoon that left a motorcyclist seriously injured. The accident happened just before 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Garriott and Leona Mitch...

CF)--The filing period for county, state and federal offices wraps up today. Most local and area incumbents have filed for re-election, with several races forming for some offices.  U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas gained another primary opponent on Thursday. Lucas, who represents the 3rd Congressional Distric...

ER)--Cheryl Patterson defeated Judd Blevins in the election for the Ward 1 Enid City Commission seat on Tuesday. Patterson defeated Blevins with 59.64% of the vote, 829-561. Blevins was elected in February 2023, defeating incumbent Jerry Allen. Votes will be certified on Friday and Enid Mayor David ...

FC)--A 16-year-old Fairview girl died of injuries suffered in a single-vehicle accident just after midnight Sunday in Major County. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials said the girl was a passenger in a 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche that crashed on a county road about half a mile east of Fairview at 12:02 Sunda...

EV)—Early voting begins today locally and across the state for voters that have issues or races to be decided next Tuesday. In Garfield County, early voting will be today and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Garfield County Election Board. In Enid a proposed school bond issue for Enid Publ...

EF)--Local residents will have the opportunity this evening to hear information on the Enid Public Schools proposed bond issue, and from the two candidates in the Ward 1 Enid City Commission recall election. Jeff Funk, Editor and Publisher of Enid News a...

PG)--An Enid man is facing two counts of lewd molestation. 42 year-old Jerry Wayne Fry was charged Wednesday in Garfield County District Court with the felony charges. Enid News and Eagle reports Fry appeared in court Thursday, and bond was set at $250,000. According to an Enid Police Department report, ...

CC)—The Enid Mayor and Board of Commissioners met Tuesday in study session and regular meeting. At the conclusion of the regular meeting, commissioners and Mayor David Mason met in executive session to discuss the efforts to bring a movie theater complex to town. After the meeting adjourned fr...

FC)--  A 15-year-old Kingfisher girl was killed while two other kids were injured after a single-vehicle crash near Kingfisher Friday night. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials said the crash occurred just before 11:55 Friday night on State Highway 33 about 6 miles east of Kingfisher. According to the...

SI)--Enid Police continue to investigate an incident last week, in which multiple shots were fired. Just after 5:35 p.m. March 7, Enid Police Department officers responded to Pine Valley Apartments in the 1000 block of S. 30th Street, for a shooting. Callers to the 911 center told dispatchers two people ...

WF)--A man was airlifted from the Lowe’s parking lot on Sunday after the Enid Fire Department responded and found him with his head trapped between the rear tires of a trailer and the floor of the trailer that was parked in the parking lot. EFD Chief Jason Currier told Enid News and Eagle, the repo...

AT)--On Tuesday the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an alleged student from Kremlin Schools threatening to come to school with a gun and shoot fellow students. Sherriff Cory Rink said an investigation was immediately started. Investigators spoke with several students, parents,...

ST)--President Joe Biden and Republican challenger and former president Donald Trump were big winners locally and in the state Tuesday in the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections. Biden received just over 72% of the votes cast in the Democrat primary in Garfield County. He easily outpaced fi...

JT)--Garfield County Associate District Judge Brian Lovell has been indicted in Texas on eight felony counts of deadly conduct discharge of a firearm related to an incident from Sept. 11, 2023. Enid News and Eagle reports the indictments were handed down by a grand jury Thursday. Bond was set at $10,000....

EV)--Early voting for Oklahoma's Super Tuesday election begins on today. State election officials say Oklahoma's presidential primary election is set for Tuesday, and there will be other propositions on the ballot for some voters. Oklahoma residents can vote at your county election board from 8:0...

WC)--The Enid area is expected to see wildfire conditions reach critical levels today, then a return to winter conditions tonight. The Breckinridge Mesonet weather-recording station recorded a high of 86 on Monday, breaking the 128-year-old mark of 77 set in 1896. The National Weather Service has much of...

CC)—The Enid Mayor and Board of Commissioners Thursday night approved the purchase of 160 acres of land for $1.2 million for the expansion of the existing industrial park. Officials said the additional land was bought to make the industrial park on 66th Street more marketable and to attract larger ...

HR)--A local man remains hospitalized and an Enid woman was arrested after of a pedestrian hit-and-run accident early Tuesday on West Wabash. Enid Police officials said 63 year-old William Blom was crossing north in the 900 block West Wabash about 6:15 Tuesday morning when he was hit by the Infiniti QX 6...

DA)--A former executive director of Northern Oklahoma Development Authority was killed recently in an accident near Drummond. Garfield County Sheriff Cory Rink said 78 year-old Larry Tipps died after a trailer he was working on fell on him. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 ca...