A McAlester woman found guilty of abusing and neglecting a child for more than a year was sentenced Tuesday to serve 20 years in a federal prison. Ashley Schardein, 29, and her husband, Billy Menees, 31, were each found guilty by a federal jury in February 2023 on counts of child abuse in Indian country and child negle...

A McAlester man was arrested recently on the charges of domestic assault and battery against a pregnant woman, domestic assault and battery by strangulation, violating a protective order and disrupt or preventing an emergency phone call. According to an affidavit, a woman was found outside a home on West Delaware Stree...

Polls are open until 7 p.m. for several local elections across the state and in Pittsburg County. Municipal elections are being held in the following Pittsburg County towns and cities: Krebs, Hartshorne, Haileyville, Kiowa, and Quinton. Pittsburg County school boards with elections on the ballot are Savanna and Indiano...

Motorists traveling on North West Avenue between West Electric Avenue and West Carl Albert Parkway can expect detours beginning today, March 31, through Friday, April 4, 2025, due to ongoing work on the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) Project 14. Truck traffic will be redirected east to North A Street, then...

The City of McAlester installed a three-way stop at the intersection of Tanglewood Drive and Crooked Oak Lane. The update includes new stop signs and stop bars - thick painted stripes on the pavement indicating where drivers should stop. The project's next phase will include additional striping along Tanglewood Drive, ...