Sequoyah County News

A home northwest of Vian, Oklahoma is destroyed by fire just after 6:30 p.m. Monday after an explosion, according to Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart.

A Muldrow man was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections on multiple counts in four separate drug-manufacturing cases.

It was one of the worst tragedies to ever occur in Sequoyah County, with 14 dead.

District Judge Jeff Payton last week accepted attorneys' motions to sever the cases of the three male defendants charged with the July killing Jack Vincent Purselley.

Problems surrounding the Sequoyah County 9-1-1 call center continue to plague the county commissioners.

Cherokee Nation council members recently passed an act directing the Cherokee Nation Businesses to conduct a feasibility study to measure the use of the Sallisaw Creek Park for gaming, industry and a potential waterway port.

Although Amanda Grizzle, District Attorney's Office victim-witness coordinator for Sequoyah County, took a sick day recently to care for her 3-year-old son who'd just had dental surgery, her work-related phone and text messages never slowed.

The Muldrow Teens Energetically Empowering Neighborhoods Coalition members are gearing up for the Sequoyah County Bark for Life, a canine-friendly mini Relay for Life.

The Oklahoma State Treasurer last week released a listing of people and organizations that have unclaimed property in the state treasurer's office.

A man convicted in 1997 of first-degree murder with malice aforethought in Sequoyah County District Court, Ronald Lynn Burnett, 35, of Sequoyah County, was passed to the second stage of the parole hearing process.

Men begin work on the city sewer line, Monday on Opdyke street. Construction will replaace 2,565 feet of 18-inch PVC sewer line, 1,164 feet of 8-inch PVC sewer line, and encase them with 70 feet of 16 inch road bore and 16 manholes.

Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart recently received the Red Feather award from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation .

Eight rolloff dumpsters will be delivered by Sue's Recycling for the annual clean up day in District 3. Dumpsters will be in place for the scheduled clean-up day on Saturday.

A helicopter prepares to land on the refueling platform after spraying one of the Interior Least Tern islands along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System in Oklahoma.

Sequoyah County Commissioners on Monday opened three sealed bids for a replacement vehicle for a sheriff's department vehicle that was wrecked last month.

A 2010 Chevrolet pickup went into Lake Tenkiller on Sunday night after it jumped out of gear.

The Scoufos Law Office in Sallisaw, Elisa Stacy, agent for Farm Bureau of Sequoyah County, and Nadia's Gyros & More in the Central Mall Food Court in Fort Smith, Ark., are hole sponsors for the 10th Annual Carl Albert State College Scholarship Golf Scramble at Shadow Creek Country Club in Sallisaw, Saturday.

Oklahoma Department of Transportation recently opened the first of eight planned state-of-the-art weigh stations.

Sallisaw sewer line replacement is scheduled to begin Monday. The project will take place near Rock Creek near Oak Street, with 150-day deadline for completion, according to Scott Neel, project manager.

A Muldrow man claims his neighbor threatened him with a shotgun, and another neighbor has written derogatory threatening comments on his car and the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Department is unresponsive to the threat.