Stigler News

Ruth I. Stout, 87, longtime Muskogee resident passed away Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at the Haskell County Hospital.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. At least that's what I see when I walk into any given store now.

A motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene after striking a deer Thursday on Oklahoma 2, one mile south and two miles east of Quinton in Haskell County.

Little is known about the basic economic principles of open-air markets and bazaars, which have existed for centuries.

Hillary Noelle Forrester of Glenpool, Okla. and formerly of Stigler, Okla. and Ryan Andrew Mottern of Glenpool, Okla.

A Stigler man pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of bank robbery in federal court in Muskogee.

MUSKOGEE a ' Larry Eugene Walden, 57, of Stigler, pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery Thursday in U.S. District Court in Muskogee.

James Leroy Vail, 69, of Hoyt, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, at his home. No services are planned.

Ginger Reimer, director of Rogers County Young Entrepreneurs, was guest speaker at the Inola Area Chamber of Commerce's September meeting.

A Tulsa County judge has sentenced a woman to 107 years in prison for a hit-and-run accident that killed five people in November 2007.

A preliminary hearing will continue at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 for Austin Michael Mullins, 26, who is charged with cruelty to animals in the June shooting of a Jack Russell terrier.

A grand jury investigation will get under way in McAlester this week into alleged crimes by a convicted child rapist.

Forrester-Mottern Hillary Forrester of Glen Pool, Okla., daughter of Chuck and Doreen Forrester of Stigler, Okla., will be married Sept.

Three students sustained minor injuries after the school bus in which they were riding was struck by a sport utility vehicle.

Crystal Risenhoover Bordelon, home for a two week visit, was the featured speaker at two area gatherings recently.

A Stigler man accused of bank robbery was indicted last week in U.S. District Court in Muskogee.

Haskell County commissioners lost another battle Friday in their ongoing court fight to have a Ten Commandments monument remain on the courthouse lawn in Stigler.

MUSKOGEE a ' A federal court indictment has issued against a Stigler man accused of robbing a bank in Sallisaw earlier this year.

A Stigler man was killed after he ran off a Haskell County road and was ejected from his vehicle, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Haskell County commissioners must pay the legal fees of the ACLU of Oklahoma in its lawsuit against a Ten Commandments monument in Stigler.