Kenneth S. Long, age 77 of Yale, Oklahoma, passed away on Monday,
January 18, 2010 at his home. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m.,
Friday at Fellowship Baptist Church, 200 E. Chicago, Yale.
A former inmate in Cushing's private prison was charged Friday with
repeatedly stabbing another inmate in the Cimarron Correctional
Facility with a home-made knife on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
A prison inmate has been ordered to appear in court Feb. 1 on a charge
of possessing marijuana in the Cimarron Correctional Facility in
Cushing -- that was allegedly delivered to him by his mother.
A Cushing woman who admitted Friday that she had stabbed a man on New
Year's Day of 2009 has been given a 180-day jail term as part of a plea
bargain, court officials said Tuesday.
"When we look forward, everything is going to Hades in a hand basket. When we look back, things have gotten better."
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