Jefferson County News

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Along with several administrative items, the Jefferson County commissioners addressed a couple of maintenance tasks during a regular meeting on April 15.

Dispatchers in Oklahoma and Carter counties, where flare-ups from Thursdays wildfires proved troublesome through Saturday, said this morning firefights were called off overnight when rains soaked the last hotspots.