Okmulgee County officials have declared a disaster emergency due to widespread flooding and infrastructure damage caused by recent heavy rains. All county district crews are working to make ...

OKMULGEE, Okla. — Police said Okmulgee High School was placed on a temporary lockdown and one student was taken into custody on Tuesday. Okmulgee Police said officers responded to a report of a ...

Feb 6, 2025 Feb 6, 2025 Updated Mar 16, 2025 0 Okmulgee Public Schools will be paying out two years of its three-year contract with its soon-to-be former superintendent, who was on the job for ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) is investigating after receiving reports of abuse at Okmulgee High School.

The Okmulgee Public Schools Board has approved a resignation agreement for Superintendent Clay Vinyard, effective June 30, 2025. Vinyard will be on administrative leave until that date.

OKMULGEE, Okla. — UPDATE: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt released a statement on the situation at the Okmulgee County Jail this week. “This is the direct effect of the broken system created by ...

The Okmulgee County Jail has its own administration and is overseen by the Okmulgee County Criminal Justice Authority. Upon arrival at the jail, there were 15-20 Muskogee Creek Nation Lighthorse ...

OKMULGEE, Okla. -- An Okmulgee police officer who was wounded Thursday in a shootout during a police call has been identified. Okmulgee Police Officer Dustin Clark was shot in the left groin by a ...

While the medical examiner is still waiting to identify the seven bodies, investigators "are no longer looking" for the two teens, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice told reporters outside the ...

The bodies of seven people, including two missing girls and a man convicted of rape and charged with new sex crimes involving a juvenile, have been found on property in rural Okmulgee County, Oklahoma ...

An Okmulgee man is making it is his mission to restore a historic hospital. He said it's the oldest Black hospital still standing in Oklahoma. He's asking for help to preserve its rich history.

OKMULGEE — A couple of hours before dawn on Labor Day 1999, an enormous fire spread through an entire block of downtown’s busiest thoroughfare — Sixth Street. And by mid-morning, little more ...