With the wind at their backs, officials from Horizon Wind Energy, owned by EDP Renewables, the world's fourth largest wind energy player, gathered on the Slick Hills terrain of southwestern Oklahoma yesterday with state and local dignitaries and project landowners to celebrate the start of operations at Blue Canyon V Wind Farm.

I am writing my column this week after a day of meetings in Dresden, Germany. We are six hours ahead due to their daylight savings time, so I have been trying to adjust to the different time zone for my meetings.

October is National Head Start Awareness Month. The Washita Valley Community Action Council is the grantee for the local Head Start program in Grady and Caddo Counties.

Trail Dust: Before horses, dogs toted burdens When the earliest Spanish explorers ventured upon New Mexico's eastern plains, they discovered Indians there, mostly Apachean-speaking, who were true "dog nomads." Most people I suspect, have never heard of them.

Today, EMILY ANNE SAUPITTY, 53, of Apache, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGuisti to serve 27 months in federal prison for embezzlement from the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Police in a small Oklahoma farming community are warning local religious leaders to secure their churches after a pastor was brutally stabbed while awaiting parishioners in her church.

Police in a small Oklahoma farming community are warning local religious leaders to secure their churches after a pastor was brutally stabbed while awaiting parishioners in her church.

Finally, Alan Mindemann, Apache, Okla., is doing something that gives him a lot of satisfaction.

APACHE a ' Caddo County investigators are looking into the drowning of a young child over the weekend.

Terrell Anquoe, a Kiowa tribesman from Apache, Okla., had his face painted in intimidating fashion Saturday as a participant in a w arrior dance depicting confrontation and conquest of enemies.

First responders to receive free legal services Saturday Oklahoma Bar Association's Young Lawyer's division will provide free will and probate services to Enid's first responders through its Wills for Heroes program.

T his year's Oklahoma FreeWheel will wind its way through rattlesnake country and the not-so-flat terrain of western Oklahoma.

Several thousand acres of winter canola growing in Oklahoma's wheat country has lived up to its name.

There could be some benefit to having the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds if the legislators abide by them.

Dozens of lives lost, thousands of homes destroyed. It was one of Oklahoma's darkest days.