Cherokee County News

An appeals court has stayed the scheduled Monday first-degree murder trial of a Muskogee man charged in the July 2007 killing of another Muskogee man.

Gustav may have been downgraded to a tropical depression, but it left a lasting impression on the Tahlequah area over the 24-hour period that ended Wednesday evening.

A $7,500 bond was set Tuesday for the Woodall School maintenance man after his arrest for allegedly taking money from a school office.

Many school superintendents hit a few bumps in the road at the beginning of each new school year, most of which are ironed out quickly.

A bench warrant was issued Tuesday afternoon for a rural Stilwell man who allegedly failed to appear for an arraignment in Cherokee County.

The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted 13 to 4 to assume operations of W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah during a special meeting Thursday, according to a media release.

A Tulsa man pleaded guilty Wednesday to marking through a sex offender notification on his driver's license.

Cherokee County authorities arrested a local woman Tuesday on charges that she embezzled more than $200,000 from her employer over the past three and a half years.

Fire officials said Monday the owners of a popular Cherokee County restaurant destroyed last week will rebuild the business.

An Oklahoma Indian tribe whose newest casino occupies that state's far northeast corner is planning road projects in Missouri and Kansas to accommodate the business.

Tahlequah police are investigating an alleged attempted money theft from a local restaurant.

Tahlequah police arrested a local man Tuesday on an outstanding warrant after a traffic stop.

A motorcyclist has been killed in a 4 vehicle crash on State Highway 82 in Cherokee County.

A Tahlequah man was bound over for trial Wednesday for an alleged armed robbery of a local convenience store.

A collision between two motorcycles, two pickup trucks and a van killed an Owasso man.

Cherokee County commissioners voted Monday to set a hearing for annexing territory into an Adair County water district.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning in a federal lawsuit involving a former drug task force investigator.

Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office wants the state Court of Criminal Appeals to rule on whether a judge properly dismissed an embezzlement charge against former prosecutor Richard Gray.

Law enforcers arrested two men for marijuana cultivation after executing a federal firearms warrant at a local residence.

The Cherokee Nation held a ceremony this week to mark the beginning of the historical restoration of the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Building, the oldest municipal building in the state.