Crime

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 35-year-old Cushing man, who admitted he tried to set fire to his residence in the 1200 block of E. Cherry Street, has been placed on 10... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- An ex-convict from Cushing, who remains jailed on $250,000 bail, avoided a jury trial today by pleading guilty on Friday to trafficking $11,500 worth of methamphetamine in... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.)  -- On the day after a Payne County jury was selected for his first-degree manslaughter trial last week, a pick-up truck driver pleaded guilty to driving under the... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Cushing man, who was arrested 11 days after reportedly crashing a stolen 2014 Honda and attempting to elude a sheriff's deputy from McElroy and Fairgrounds Road... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- Bail has been set at $1 million for a 54-year-old man accused of second-degree murder of his oldest brother, who died of a... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   (Chandler, Okla.) -- Former Tryon Police Chief Jered Dewayne Prickett, 48, who admitted embezzling and misappropriating town funds between Jan. 1, 2013, and May 13, 2019, has been placed on five... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Payne County jury composed of eight men and four women deliberated for two and one-half hours before convicting a Perkins man of repeatedly sexually abusing a... Read More.

By Patti Weaver       (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 33-year-old Tulsa man has been given a 10-year prison term by Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley for providing heroin to his 29-year-old girlfriend, who... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Cushing man and his teen-aged son, who were both arrested Friday, have been charged as co-defendants with breaking into Cushman Cannabis dispensary located eight blocks from... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 63-year-old Cushing man has been charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old female relative at his residence.     Thomas Wayne Spencer has been ordered... Read More.