Oklahoma’s top auditor says the FBI and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office are interested in a critical audit that indicates more than $1.7 million in utility revenue collected by a small southeastern Oklahoma…

Arkansas-based Simmons First National Corporation has announced the completion of its purchase of both Southwest Bancorp, Inc. of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and First Texas, BHC of Fort Worth, Texas.

Heavy thunderstorms with strong winds, large hail and possibly tornadoes are forecast during the weekend in much of Oklahoma and Arkansas and parts of Texas.

The Board of Governors at Missouri Southern State University will meet at 1 p.m. today in the boardroom in Billingsly Student Center.

The Bill & Virginia Leffen Center for Autism will celebrate 10 years of helping children with autism spectrum disorders with a special community event.

Authorities have found the body of a man who had been shot in the basement of a boarded-up northern St. Louis County home while investigating a small fire there.

Authorities say a woman has been shot while attending a candlelight vigil for a slain man in St. Louis.

     The days of sharing locker rooms for the Crowder College baseball and softball teams might soon be over.        A sizable donation Thursday helped Crowder College reach its goal for an indoor athletic facility.       Carl and Sara Ledbetter, who have been part of Neosho Missouri and the college for decades, donated $25,000 to the Roughrider Fieldhouse project.     “We’re just grateful for the chance to do …

Kansas City and Saint Louis had been engaged in a friendly battle of the cities — each vying to be the home of the new Amazon headquarters.   Now they’re joining forces. Missouri officials are proposing an innovation corridor between Kansas City and St. Louis for a new Amazon location instead of a single headquarters in one of the metropolitan areas.      Missouri is submitting the application on Thursday. Missouri Chief Operating Officer Drew Erdmann says an inn…

 Local officials have confirmed that Montgomery County is among three Kansas counties that are finalists for a new Tyson Foods Inc. chicken-processing plant.     the other sites are in Cloud County in north-central Kansas and Sedgwick County in south-central Kansas.      The Montgomery County proposed site is in Coffeyville.     State Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Heather Lansdowne said Wednesday that 16 communities in Kan…