Waurika News

After law enforcement put eight people behind bars last week in Stephens County on charges of distribution of a controlled drug, the District Attorney Drug Task Force Team turned its sight toward Jefferson County.

The Chickasha Future Water Supply Committee met Thursday to discuss several potential plans for Chickasha water availability, with two potential studies helping the board create a tentative plan to supplement the current and future water supply.

A new construction company will get a shot at completing one of the county's longest-standing tasks, after the Jefferson County Commissioners accepted a bid for work on what has become known as the "courthouse improvements project." During a regular meeting at the county courthouse, the commissioners accepted a bid of $79,950 from BME Construction.

Prosecutors have charged a Waurika man with arson after they said he set his wife on fire.

A Waurika man faces felony arson charges after he poured gasoline over his wife's head and set her on fire, according to an affidavit filed in Jefferson County.

Authorities say a Waurika man faces felony arson charges for allegedly pouring gasoline over his wife's head and setting her on fire.

An Oklahoma man is behind bars after he admitted to pouring gasoline on his wife's head and then setting her on fire.

A Waurika man was charged in Jefferson County District Court Friday with arson in the first degree after he allegedly set fire to another person.

They're back. The birds that terrorized people in the Stephens County town of Corum near Lake Waurika have returned to the area.

After five years of spending most of his time living out of a suitcase, Mark Bryant was ready to settle into a job that didn't require logging so many miles and waking up in hotel beds.

Jake Boren urged his classmates to seek the answers to three questions. Nathan Howard turned to the tale of three servants to illustrate his hope for the future of all the Eagles about to leave the nest.

Thanks to a "gift" from the federal government, Waurika Independent School District No.

The Oklahoma State University-imported fire-ant specialist speaking at a control meeting near Waurika, Okla., last week admitted there is some sort of "redneck" mentality among men when it comes to killing fire ants.

Waurika_Waurika Lake is getting almost $900,000 in federal stimulus money. Almost $800,000 of that will be used to replace old and rotten wooden posts that connect guard rails next to the lake.

Heavy rain continues to pound southern Oklahoma tonight after a day of flooding and record rainfall.

When Cody Simmons' family moved to Waurika and he was enrolled in second grade at Waurika Elementary School, the new student was greeted by a woman who was still adjusting to the job of principal.

Chuck Brown knows he still has a job as city manager of Waurika. In a couple months, he'll also know more about how he's doing in that job and what's expected in the future.

Almost half-a-mile long strip full of cars lined Main Street Saturday for the second annual Cruising the Chisholm Trail Car Show.

A woman whose two minor daughters and their adult cousin died in a house fire in Ringling was arrested Wednesday on charges of child neglect and endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine, authorities said.

Officials may never know whether a fire that killed two teenage girls and their adult cousin in Ringling resulted from a methamphetamine lab because of the way fire investigators handled the probe, the Jefferson County district attorney alleged.