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Yesterday | Duncan Banner

Jefferson County officials update

During a regular meeting at the Jefferson County Courthouse, the three county chiefs huddled with engineer Clark Mitchell and Kenny Wall from the Surface Transportation Program district office to work on a five-year bridge plan required by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and other entities.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Duncan Banner

Jefferson County brings elderly nutrition

With state funding cutbacks already underway, Jefferson County Commissioners are giving support to an effort to ensure that Tri-County Elderly Nutrition and senior citizens sites in the county will remain open.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition, Family, Elderly, Ringling, OK, Ryan, OK, Waurika, OK

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Duncan Banner

Youth workshop could use volunteers

With the turn of a kaleidoscope, the visible image changes. Thursday and Friday it won't be an image changing, but thoughts and actions.

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Wed Oct 07, 2009

NewsOn6 Tulsa

West Nile Blamed For Jefferson County Man's Death

Authorities say an elderly Jefferson County man has become Oklahoma's first death attributed to the West Nile virus this year.

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Tue Sep 29, 2009

Duncan Banner

Two arrested Sunday on drug trafficking charges

More than 55 grams of crack cocaine and powder cocaine are off the streets, along with two alleged drug traffickers, after a combined effort between three law enforcement agencies Sunday in which the arrests were made.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Waurika, OK

Thu Sep 17, 2009

KTUL

Woman Pleads Guilty To Drug Count

The mother of two children who died in a Jan. 5 house fire has pleaded guilty to endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine.

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Related Topix: Drugs

TulsaWorld.com - State

Jefferson Co. woman pleads guilty to drug count

RINGLING a ' The mother of two children who died in a Jan. 5 house fire has pleaded guilty to endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Ringling, OK

Sun Sep 13, 2009

Duncan Banner

Suspect held in bomb threat

With a Waurika High School student in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Juvenile Affairs, school authorities were praising the efficiency of the system in defusing a potentially dangerous situation.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Waurika, OK

Sun Aug 23, 2009

Duncan Banner

Church arsonist headed to prison

Justin Blake Adams will spend at least 10 years in prison after he was convicted of arson and burglary connected to a fire that destroyed half of First United Methodist Church of Waurika last fall.

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Related Topix: Waurika, OK, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Ringling, OK

Wed Jul 22, 2009

Duncan Banner

Detention center may be built

Representatives from three county entities combined their meetings at Jefferson County Courthouse on July 13 to discuss turning a failure of the past into a possible future success.

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Fri Jul 10, 2009

Duncan Banner

Five busted, four out on bond

Four of the five Jefferson County residents arrested in a multi-agency drug bust on June 24 are out on bond awaiting preliminary hearings, while a fifth remains in Texas.

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Related Topix: Waurika, OK

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Duncan Banner

Authorities make more arrests in Jefferson County

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.

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Related Topix: Waurika, OK

Fri Jun 12, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - State

Fiery domestic fight leads to arson charge for Waurika man

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.

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Related Topix: Waurika, OK

Duncan Banner

JeffCoa s courthouse improvements project takes step forward

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.

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Related Topix: Hastings, OK, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Waurika, OK, Addington, OK

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Duncan Banner

Waurika man sets fire to person

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.

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Related Topix: Fire, Waurika, OK, Oklahoma City, OK

Mon May 25, 2009

Duncan Banner

Waurika gets new city clerk in Bryant

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.

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Related Topix: Waurika, OK, University of Texas Pan American

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