Crime

By Patti Weaver    (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Stillwater man, who admitted financially exploiting a vulnerable adult, was sentenced this week to six months in jail followed by four and one-half years of probation... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   (Stillwater, Okla.) -- An alleged drunk driver of a flatbed pickup truck, who along with his passenger reportedly had been kicked out of the Blue Diamond... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   (Stillwater, Okla.)  -- An accused arsonist told a city jailer he used medical marijuana about 90 minutes before setting a fire at the Mission of... Read More.

By Patti Weaver    (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Cushing man was sentenced Tuesday to seven and one-half years in prison for shooting two children with a BB gun -- an 11-year-old hit in the... Read More.

By Patti Weaver  (Stillwater, Okla.) -- In an unusually quick verdict in a trial last week, a Payne County jury deliberated only 47 minutes before convicting a man of sexually battering three female clients... Read More.

By Patti Weaver    (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A Cushing man, who reportedly has mental health issues, has been jailed on $15,000 bail pending a March 7 court appearance on a charge of breaking into... Read More.

By Patti Weaver  (Tryon, Okla.) -- Former Tryon Police Chief Jered Prickett received $70,987.69 in unauthorized payroll between July 2016 and May 2019, a misappropriation of public funds, State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd... Read More.

By Patti Weaver  (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 26-year-old Stillwater man avoided a jury trial this week by accepting a plea bargain with the prosecution for a five-year prison term in a home invasion and... Read More.

By Patti Weaver    (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 21-year-old Cushing man was arraigned by video from the Payne County Jail on Tuesday on a felony charge of breaking into a truck parked at Raw... Read More.

By Patti Weaver    (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A driver accused of running a roadblock and speeding up to116 mph in an attempt to elude a sheriff's deputy before crashing southwest of Cushing at Highway... Read More.