Sequoyah County News

A Sallisaw man accused of beating his girlfriendsa children waived his right to a preliminary hearing Oct.

Sequoyah County Commissioners approved the county's 2009-10 budget at their Monday morning meeting.

Authorities said the report on four Sallisaw vandals who were caught Friday took almost a full ream of copy paper when they completed it Monday evening.

Sallisaw police arrested four men accused in a string of burglaries and vandalisms in Sequoyah County.

Vandals hit Sallisaw High School late Thursday or early Friday and drove school buses into buildings, rammed other vehicles, and destroyed classrooms.

Lewis Warren, former District 2 Sequoyah County Commissioner, turned himself into police Tuesday, two days after he left the scene of an accident.

Sequoyah County Commissioners are awaiting a new budget, based on evaluations by County Assessor Donna Graham.

On Wednesday Sallisaw Police and District 27 Drug Task Force served five narcotic search warrants and arrested nine people including one juvenile.

A semi tractor-trailer traveling west and laden with cattle, toppled over and slid across the eastbound lane on Interstate 40 in Sequoyah County Thursday injuring one person and killing 20 head of cattle.

A Mississippi man was injured Thursday when the tractor-trailer rig he was in overturned on Interstate 40, states an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.

David Dewayne Collins was charged with first-degree murder Sept. 30 and additional charges of first-degree arson and possession of a firearm after former felony convictions were added Oct.

The Boys and Girls Club of Sequoyah County second annual Taste of Sallisaw will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sallisaw High School Commons Area.

A jockey was killed when he fell from his horse during a race at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw.

A jockey was killed when he fell from his horse during a race at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw.

Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd dies again this week. The first time it happened, on Oct.

The home built by David McNair Faulkner no longer exists, but its location will be on the annual tour of the Sequoyah County Historical Society Oct.

Sequoyah County Commissioners tabled a final decision on the countya s 2009-10 budget Tuesday, until they found out the results of Tuesdaya s special election on a half-cent sales tax for the county jail and sheriffa s office.

A Muldrow woman who is a suspect in the beating death of a Fort Smith, Ark., man was arrested at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Drugs, drug paraphernalia and a possible methamphetamine lab were found Sept. 20 at a mobile home in Ramms Mobile Home Park in Sallisaw.

A late night house fire destroyed a home northwest of Muldrow on Flat Rock Road.