SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Okla. - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a 49-year-old man drowned in the Illinois River on Saturday while kayaking.Jeremy P. Brasuell from Web ... Read More

On Memorial Day weekend in 2002, a barge crashed into a support beam holding up the I-40 bridge. Cars and trucks plunged into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people. Read More

It has been nearly two and a half decades since a barge struck the Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, leaving more than a dozen people dead. Read More

Twenty-four years after a barge slammed into the I-40 bridge near Webbers Falls and dropped a 503-foot stretch of highway into the Arkansas River, the town is again pausing to remember. Fourteen ... Read More

It's been 24 years since more than a dozen people were killed and many others were injured when a barge crash caused the Interstate 40 bridge to collapse into the Arkansas River in Webbers Falls. Read More

An officer-involved shooting in Webbers Falls on March 16, 2025, prompted an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The incident occurred during a traffic ... Read More

MUSKOGEE COUNTY, Okla. - Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) issued a Blue Alert for Billy Williams on behalf of the Webbers Falls Police Department. Williams is suspected of shooting a police officer ... Read More

Eighteen of those collapses happened in the United States. Among them were a 2002 incident in which a barge struck the Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, sending ... Read More