OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office says a deputy was accidentally shot in the leg during a training exercise at the office's gun range.
Sheriff's spokesman Mark Myers says the deputy was wounded Monday and taken to a hospital for treatment— but that the injury is not life-threatening.
The names of the deputy and others involved in the shooting were not released.
The gun range is located at the department's training facility on the east side of Oklahoma City.
A Shawnee man was indicted recently on federal drug charges after a joint-agency investigation which included work done by the McAlester Police Department.
McAlester Pom competes in Tulsa
McAlester Varsity Pom Squad members and their coach, Yvonne Allford and assistant Kacyn Haney, recently attended the Universal Dance Association Pom Camp in Tulsa. The girls spent four days working and participating in camp activities and competing against other squads from the area.
A Shawnee man was indicted recently on federal drug charges after a joint-agency investigation which included work done by the McAlester Police Department.
Pittsburg and Latimer counties game warden Shane Fields fishes at this week’s Tuesday Night Jackpot at Lake Eufaula Cove. Fields began competing at TNJ three years ago, and this year he’s among the season-leaders for total weight caught.
Perhaps more than any other sport, fishing demands patience. Shane Fields knows this, and it keeps him from getting too frustrated on those days — like Tuesday night — when the fish just aren’t biting.
A two-time convicted killer, and death row inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, was executed via lethal injection Tuesday evening in the prison’s death chamber.
Facebook's addition of a way for its users to tell people their organ-donor status helped boost the number of people who registered as donors 21-fold in one day.
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