Regional Conditions and Fire Behavior

Statewide: • Excessive heat (temperatures 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more) and dry conditions have created fuel availability and increased wildfire activity. While initial attack operations have contained most fires, large fires remain possible in adverse terrain or heavy timber/brush.

Wildlife Commission accepts $50,000 land donation

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission accepted a $50,000 donation supporting a recent land purchase and honored several Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation employees during its regular August meeting.

Bulletin Board

CUSHING August 6 Freshman Orientation, Cushing High School, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.August 7 Rotary Glow Ball Fill the Bus Golf Tournament, 6:30 p.m. start, Buffalo Rock Golf and Venue August 10 Fifth Grade Orientation, Cushing Middle School, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Parents welcome from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

New District Attorney releases statement regarding Butler hearing

STILLWATER — The newly elected District Attorney of Payne and Logan Counties Jeremiah Gregory has issued the following statement after the Aug. 3 hearing in the matter of Jesse Mack Butler: “Today was the final hearing in the matter of the criminal case against Jesse Mack Butler.

Monthly mesonet

July begins with destructive winds, ends in a heat wave Mother Nature supplied fireworks of her own on July 4 as a destructive windstorm swept across Oklahoma, with Norman hardest hit. The month closed under a punishing heat wave, with widespread tripledigit temperatures during its final third.

Deadline nears for state waterfowl stamp contest

OKLAHOMA CITY — Artists have only a few weeks left to enter the 45th annual Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp Design Competition.Artwork must be delivered to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation headquarters in Oklahoma City by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Aug.

Jones rules the clay as the micros fight it out at Port City

Sand Springs driver wins Restrictor feature; Mannford and Cushing racers grind through crowded Saturday program By the time the feature races rolled onto the dirt Saturday night, Port City Raceway had become its own small, roaring universe.Engines snapped against the humid August air.

Traffic Stop becomes trafficking case

Front-seat passenger accused of possessing 30 grams of methamphetamine STILLWATER — A 50-yearold man, who was a frontseat passenger in a car during an early morning traffic stop at Main and Little Streets in Cushing, has been jailed on $50,000 bond pending his arraignment this week on charges of...

110 mph chase through Cushing

STILLWATER — A 57-year-old Cushing man, who was convicted of endangering others while eluding an Agra police officer at 100 mph in a pickup in 2016, has been charged with endangering others while eluding a Payne County sheriff's deputy at 110 mph in a motorcycle -- until he crashed out eight...