Okfuskee County News

A bomb-sniffing dog that specializes in finding bullet casings scoured the scene Wednesday where two young girls were shot to death this month but did not find any additional evidence.

A former prison secretary accused of having sex with an inmate has been charged with first-degree rape in the latest in a series of Oklahoma cases involving allegations of sexual activity between inmates and ...

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is distributing information nationwide in the search for a suspect in the murders of two girls whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on a rural road after they failed ...

Agents with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday that a specially trained dog looking for gunpowder and bullet casings found nothing at the scene where two girls were killed on June 8. ...

Investigators are looking into new leads and returning to the scene where two girls were murdered less than two weeks ago.

Authorities are still searching for a suspect in the killings of two young girls on rural Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.

June 17 - Troopers have arrested a man armed with a shotgun at Weleetka High School.

Investigators with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are still searching for a suspect or suspects in the brutal murders of 11-year-old Skyla Whitiker and Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13.

Investigators have blocked off the dirt road this afternoon where two girls were found shot to death Sunday evening.

Investigators talked with a witness who said he saw two girls moments before they were killed along a county road in east-central Oklahoma , a state agent said.

He was standing in the middle of the dirt road: a tall Native American with a long ponytail tucked beneath a baseball cap.

' The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is now offering a $14,000 reward to find the killer of two girls in Okfuskee County.

THE INVESTIGATION, A MYSTERY: Weleetka girls Taylor Dawn Paschal-Placker, 13, left, and Skyla Jade Whitaker, 11, were best friends.

Two girls were found dead last night north of Weleetka in Okfuskee County, authorities said.

All-black Oklahoma town tour set for Saturday Take a trip back to a time when segregation forced African-Americans to establish their own towns to maintain a peaceful existence in early Oklahoma.

The annual Paden High School and Okfuskee County High School alumni banquet will be held today in the fellowship hall of Freewill Baptist Church, two miles west of Paden.

Thunderstorms are moving from southwest to northeast across Oklahoma this morning and will continue through the day. via NewsOK.com

The state's unemployment numbers improved from January to February, according to figures released recently by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. via The Shawnee News-Star

“I don't want to know who did it; I don't want to know how it happened. I just want to be able to find him and put him to rest.”

Twenty years ago, Dwayne McCorkendale was shot to death as he called his wife from a pay phone. via TulsaWorld.com - Legal

“Unfortunately, at statehood, the first piece of legislation was to segregate rail cars and waiting facilities”

In the late 1800s, the red-dirt territory that was to become Oklahoma was the land of exile and hope. via NewsOK.com