Crime

By Patti Weaver   (Stillwater, Okla.) -- In a remarkably rapid verdict, a Payne County jury took only 35 minutes to convict a man, who considers himself a sovereign citizen and represented himself at his trial... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- For the second time in less than three months, former third-grade teacher Kimberly Simmons Coates has been charged with public intoxication, this time on Nov. 6 in the... Read More.

By Patti Weaver       (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 61-year-old Yale man has been accused of setting fire to grass in and around Eagle Road and Airport Road in rural Payne County while intoxicated, in... Read More.

By Patti Weaver       (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 55-year-old Glencoe man on probation for methamphetamine possession, who pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd molestation of a 7-year-old girl he babysat on many occasions,... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Stillwater woman with a history of violent crimes has been given three concurrent 12-year prison terms for attacking her boyfriend, being a felon in possession of a... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   (Stillwater, Okla.) -- In a strange turn of events, former third-grade teacher Kimberly Simmons Coates has been jailed on suspicion of being intoxicated in Payne County District Court on Monday afternoon --... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- Arrest warrants have been issued for an ex-convict from Bristow charged with passing two forged checks to Bill's EZ Out in Cushing and committing domestic violence in Creek... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- At the close of an extremely emotional sentencing hearing in which a sobbing girl said in court last week, "I can never forgive what he did to me,"... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 44-year-old Cushing man, who allegedly yelled "F... you" to the court at his arraignment from the Payne County Jail, has been charged with burglarizing Greenfield Mechanical while... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     (Stillwater, Okla.)  -- A 20-year-old man has been charged with driving a truck over a 19-year-old woman, who suffered a fractured pelvis, broken tailbone and fractured spine, but not stopping at... Read More.