Webbers Falls News

Muskogee County officials should look at a countywide police force, a department that also provides law enforcement services to small towns.

The Gore and Webbers Falls Chambers of Commerce this week announced this yeara s Christmas Parade Theme, A Musical Christmas, chosen by a joint committee of both chambers.

NEWS A* Testimony begins in the first-degree murder case against Enrique Pacheco in stabbing death of 18-year-old Shelleigh PoorBear.

Webbers Falls Mayor Jewell Horne will not draw the $1,000 per month she was authorized to receive earlier this month as head of the East Central Oklahoma Water Authority, she said Monday.

Pearl McCutcheon has seen many changes during her life. McCutcheon, 86, spent her early youth north of Webbers Falls.

The Webbers Falls Police Department was forced to shut its doors Sept. 28 and now Muskogee County Sheriffa s Office deputies will be covering the town.

For folks living in the Three Forks region in our early history, travel was often dependent upon river conditions, for there were no bridges to help them get across.

I would like to alert you to a development concerning many citizens as they see their environment and property values being negatively impacted by numerous gas and oil field waste disposal operations.

Police operations in Webbers Falls have been taken over by the sheriff after CLEET informed the town it can no longer operate a police department without a police chief.

The Muskogee County Sheriff's Office took over law enforcement duties in Webbers Falls on Monday, said Mayor Jewell Horne.

NEWS * Former McIntosh County sheriff and undersheriff sentenced to federal prison.

OK, the number of local officials being charged with crimes is reaching the ridiculous.

At 15, Melissa Frye isn't old enough to give blood, but she came to Tulsa with 16 classmates to learn how to set up a blood drive at her high school in South Coffeyville, just south of the Kansas-Oklahoma state line.

The town of Webbers Falls has been served notice by the attorney for two former police officers that they are seeking damages for defamation, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and punitive damages.

Dairyman and rancher David Boyer said he's not sure why his family has been named for an award for their success.

Embezzlement charges were filed Friday against mayors and trustees of two area towns.

The fall 2009 Gore Cruise Night and Burnout will be Saturday starting at 5 p.m. The cruise itself will extend from Harpa s down to just before the Webbers Falls Bridge.

A Webbers Falls man died when a tree fell on him this afternoon. Billy Ray Moore, 59, was cutting a small tree that was holding up a larger dead tree in a field on his property off EW 110th Street in Muskogee County about 12:40 p.m., Muskogee County Undersheriff Randy Perryman said.

Authorities detonated three explosive devices after a Muskogee County drug raid at a rural spread where the suspects allegedly traded dope for stolen goods.

Three people were arrested and three explosive devices were detonated Saturday following a raid in Muskogee County, officials said.