Sallisaw News

District Attorney Brian Kuester recently announced that three nonpaying parents were jailed for 180 days and five more face arrest for failing to appear and pay child support at the Sequoyah County District Court child support docket on May 16.

A Sequoyah County Sheriff's investigator's report released Wednesday states the cause of death of the Monday shooting of a New Hope woman was suicide.

Earl Clead Stewart, 94, of Sallisaw, who died Monday, had a long history as a public servant.

Four people have been arrested and one suspect is on the loose after deputies make a drug bust on Interstate 40 in Sequoyah County.

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The former youth minister of the First Assembly of God Church in Sallisaw received a five-year deferred sentence Wednesday after pleading no contest before Special District Judge Larry Langley to one count of unlawful use of video equipment in a clandestine manner.

Sequoyah County Sheriff's investigators are investigating the shooting of a woman near New Hope as a suspected homicide.

Sheriff Ron Lockhart says the woman was pronounced dead at a hospital after she was shot in the torso Monday night.

Cherokee Principal Chief Bill John Baker addressed a full house Tuesday evening at a community meeting at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw.

The walls are up, but most of the interior work is yet to be completed on the Backroads Bar and Grill, north of Sallisaw.

District Judge Jeff Payton last week accepted attorneys' motions to sever the cases of the three male defendants charged with the July killing Jack Vincent Purselley.

The Muldrow splash pad, Roland and Sallisaw swimming pools will open Saturday. The splash pad hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week and is free to the public.

Sallisaw city commissioners completed a two-day budget meeting at the city water plant last week, as part of the meeting, city leaders discussed the city's 2011 and 2012 accounts.

Taking first place in the Cherokee Casino/CASC Scholarship Golf Scramber was the team of Marvin Thouvenel, Anthony Fornaszewski, Dalton Jasna and Paige Tolbert.

Cherokee Nation council members recently passed an act directing the Cherokee Nation Businesses to conduct a feasibility study to measure the use of the Sallisaw Creek Park for gaming, industry and a potential waterway port.

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Oklahoma's attorney general and assistant attorneys general would be able to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state under a bill approved in the House.

Although Amanda Grizzle, District Attorney's Office victim-witness coordinator for Sequoyah County, took a sick day recently to care for her 3-year-old son who'd just had dental surgery, her work-related phone and text messages never slowed.

Sallisaw City Commissioners on Monday re-adopted the requirement that all city employees live within a 20-minute travel distance from the city.

Failure to buckle a seat belt led to the arrest May 8 of two Sallisaw women on narcotics and other charges.