Oklahoma panhandle News

Weather Service in Oklahoma Runs Social Media ‘Tornado Drill’

Melody Holeman has no TV and lives in such a rural part of the Oklahoma Panhandle that she can’t even pick up a signal on the weather radio that the Red Cross gave her. When powerful storms barrel through the …

NTSB Says Trains Not Speeding Before Oklahoma Wreck

The National Transportation Safety Board says trains that collided head-on last month in the Oklahoma Panhandle weren’t speeding at the time of the wreck. Three Union Pacific employees died in the June 24 accident near Goodwell. Another worker jumped to …

2 Trains Collide in Oklahoma Panhandle Sparking Fire

Authorities say two trains have collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle, sparking a diesel fire. Texas County Emergency Management Director Harold Tyson says he didn’t know if anyone had been injured in the Sunday morning accident near Goodwell, which forced the …