Edmond OK

Every state has those places people talk about in a lower voice. Not because they are flashy or impossible to get into, but because they never miss. In Oklahoma, I have noticed locals share certain restaurant names carefully, almost strategically, like they are protecting a good thing. These are not trend-driven...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Fire crews put out three fires near Lake Hefner Parkway and 122nd on Wednesday afternoon. The on-ramp to Lake Hefner Parkway is closed near 122nd Street while crews battle three fires in the area. Two of the fires are in the grass near the highway. The third...

There’s a stretch of Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma that I can never just “drive past.” The parking lot is always packed, trucks and road-trippers squeezed in tight, and before I even open the car door I can smell fried chicken in the air. It’s the kind...

OKLAHOMA — A Bethany Middle School employee was arrested Wednesday after police say the individual was caught using a THC vape device on school property. According to the Bethany Police Department, officers responded to the school after receiving a report that an employee had been using a THC vape in a bathroom...

Two top Oklahoma County jail employees were fired because they were lovers who created a hostile work environment and not for being whistleblowers, the jail trust claims in a federal court filing. When asked about the new allegations, an attorney for the former jail employees told The Oklahoman the explosive...

You can smell it before you see it. That slow, steady hickory smoke hanging in the air is what pulled me toward Leo’s BBQ. Since 1974, this place has been doing one thing exceptionally well, and it does not need flashy updates or reinvention to prove it. The ribs arrive tender enough to make you pause, the meat...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Credit card users could soon be paying more after the state Senate approved a measure that would increase a cap on what businesses could charge their consumers. Senate Bill 2132, by Sen. Spencer Kern, R-Duncan, would increase the surcharge fee, or the amount that businesses can charge their customers,...

Responding to reports of gunfire just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oklahoma City police say they arrived at a northwest Oklahoma City trailer to a chaotic scene that left one man dead, another wounded and an officer in the hospital. Officers located a wounded man and got him to a nearby...

The nonprofit Oklahoma City Search & Rescue Team has issued an alert for a missing Yukon juvenile. Leah Linhart, age 15, was reported as a runaway after last being seen around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 leaving the Yukon High School campus near E Vandament Avenue and S Yukon Parkway.

A phoned-in threat sent St. Anthony Hospital’s Midtown campus into lockdown Monday afternoon, after a caller said they planned to come to the facility and commit an act of violence. Staff moved fast, securing entrances and screening anyone coming in while Oklahoma City police converged on the hospital. Authorities...