Sallisaw News

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A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to put a Sallisaw man on trial for a 1997 beating death during a robbery.

A judge scheduled a trial for Rex Robbins in connection with the 1997 murder of Mitchell Nixon.

Federal and state authorities are offering up to a $2,500 reward for information about the death and mutilation of an American bald eagle found in Sallisaw in March, 2013.

Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ruled Friday that Rex Robbins III should be bound over for trial in the beating death of 28-year-old Mitchell Nixon.

Oklahoma Wildlife officers are trying to find out who killed a baby bald eagle. The bird was found mutilated in Sequoyah County, on a sidewalk outside a Motel 6 in Sallisaw.

A Sallisaw woman has pleaded guilty to charges of trying to sell her two children to a Fort Smith, Ark.

Misty VanHorn, a Sallisaw woman accused of trying to sell her children to raise money for her boyfriend's bail, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of trafficking in children.

The body of 35-year-old Sandra Carter Davis was found by hunters on Wild Horse Mountain on Thanksgiving Day, 1978 -- six months after she was last seen leaving a bar in Sallisaw.

Although the King of Rock 'n' Roll died in August 1977, Elvis Presley's music and persona's influence remain to thrill and motivate millions of listeners, said Cullipher, a Sallisaw-based Elvis Presley tribute artist.