1-4-05 - First News has learned that Durant is competing with Sherman to land a new Tyson Foods plant. Sherman put together an incentive package for Tyson two months ago, but one month later...

1-4-05 - The Sherman Police Department is getting some help when it comes to soothing children who are the victims of crime and accidents. 12 women from Mary's Quilt Shop donated 21 hand-stitched quilts to the PD on Tuesday.

1-4-05 - Sherman police say they’ve solved a string of burglaries that date back to 2003. They arrested two men late last week that they say are responsible for 18 burglaries - targeting an RV park as well as...

01-04-05 - Insurgents assassinated the highest-ranking Iraqi official in eight months Tuesday, gunning down the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards.

1-3-04 - A suspicious fire that destroyed four units of a Sherman apartment complex over the weekend may be the work of an arsonist. Police are hoping to question a man who lived in one of the apartments.

1-03-05 – Oklahoma smokers will pay more for cigarettes in 2005. On January 1st, a new law went into effect raising the price for a pack of cigarettes $.80 to help provide better healthcare. So far, store clerks in Oklahoma say they are still selling like normal.

1-3-05 - The FBI is on the lookout for a fugitive out of Bryan County. Claude McCormick, 61, is wanted for sexual abuse of a child. McCormick is considered armed and dangerous and might stil be in North Texas or Southern Oklahoma.

1-3-04 – A family of three was forced from their home early Monday morning. Fire broke out just before 4:00 a.m. at the Turtle Creek apartments in the 3200 block of Rex Cruse in Sherman. No injuries are reported and the family is staying in a local hotel...

01-4-05 – Just before 1 a.m. Tuesday, Love County Sheriff’s Deputies and Thackerville Police Officers began a pursuit with a wanted man driving a stolen pickup truck. The pursuit ended at a dead end of old Highway 77 south toward the river.

1-1-05 - Four Sherman families are homeless after an early morning fire New Year's Day at the Diamond Place Apartment Complex on LaSalle Street. Sherman firefighters evacuated 16 apartments just after midnight.

1-1-05- Authorities in southern Oklahoma are searching for two inmates who escaped from the Gene Autry Correctional Facility in Ardmore Saturday morning.

12-31-04 - A boy was seriously injured while riding a motorcycle on a dirt bike track east of Sherman Friday afternoon. Around 4:45pm his parents found the boy, who is approximately 11-years-old.

12-31-04 - Oklahoma's prisoners and guards will soon have to do without their nicotine habits. Today is the last day prison inmates can buy cigarettes before tobacco is banned in all state prisons.

12-30-04 - Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry is squaring off against a Hollywood action star as part of this year's Orange Bowl wager. Governor Arnold Swarzenegger is backing USC, Henry - OU.

12-30-04 - A Durant man is in serious condition after wrecking a motorcycle in rural Bryan County on Thursday. Troopers say the 29-year-old was heading north on highway 22 east of Caddo when he...

12-30-04 – A dog literally took a bite out of crime Tuesday night in Ardmore; attacking two would-be burglars. Jennifer Garrison and her dog rascal were sitting in her living room when they heard someone try to come through the window...

12-29-04 – Over 100 homeowners in Colbert are frustrated with their water service. They say day-by-day, they never know if their water will be on or off. City officials say the problem is due to a pine tree that’s roots grew into and broke a water pipe.

12-30-04 - Officials have identified the two men killed in a blast at a scrap metal plant in Muskogee, but officials are still trying to determine what caused the explosion that could be hear as far as 50 miles away...

12-29-04 The death toll from this weeks Tsunami is now estimated to be at least 76,700 people and that number expected to rise even more over the coming days. Now internation health officials say the worst is yet to come.

12-28-04 – With people inside, a 115-year-old building in Ladonia crumbled to the ground early this morning. The three people inside made it out of the building alive, but lost all of their possessions.

12-28-04 We're gearing up to go bowling. First Sports is on the road with bowl games this week and Next. Starting Tuesday December 28th, Matt Brown and John Engleman begin our coverage of the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio.

12-30-04 - The death toll from last weekend's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe rose to more than 117,000 Thursday as Indonesia uncovered more and more dead from ravaged Sumatra island...

12-28-04 – An 81 year old man is dead following a train crash in Collinsville Monday. Amos Penn was killed at the intersection of Highway 377 and Lynch Crossing. Investigators say he may have attempted...

12-28-04 – The second fire in a Grayson County neighborhood in less than a week kept firefighters busy Monday night. One firefighter sustained minor injuries. He was treated for a twisted an ankle...

12-27-04 – Vandals destroyed Christmas decorations at several Ardmore homes. Several blow-up decorations were slashed by a knife and a nativity scene was also trashed. The victims are offering a $100 dollar reward for any information that leads to an arrest.