Crime

By Patti Weaver     STILLWATER -- A 35-year-old Stillwater man, who remains jailed on $50,000 bond, avoided a jury trial this week on charges of strangling his girlfriend and resisting arrest by pleading guilty to both... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   STILLWATER -- A Perkins man, who admitted he maintained a house were drugs were kept in 2023, 2024 and 2025, has been released from the Payne County Jail where he was held... Read More.

By Patti Weaver      STILLWATER -- An investigation is continuing into a fatal shooting at 1:45 am Monday in the 200 block of W. Elm, Stillwater Police Lt. Terry Low reported in a news release.  ... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     STILLWATER -- A 42-year-old Cushing man has avoided a July 28 jury trial by accepting a plea bargain for a 10-year prison term followed by five years of probation for trafficking methamphetamine... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     STILLWATER -- An ex-convict has been accused of setting fire on two different occasions to the unoccupied leasing office of a Stillwater apartment complex, which his girlfriend reportedly had been told to... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     STILLWATER -- A 27-year-old ex-convict, who reportedly told police he needed help with rehab, has been accused of burglarized four cars and stealing a truck in the Teal Ridge neighborhood of Stillwater,... Read More.

By Patti Weaver     STILLWATER -- A Cushing woman, who was accused with her husband of having $23,520 from drug sales during a traffic stop, along with eight guns, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, buprenorphine, alprazolam and clonazepam... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   STILLWATER -- Bail has been set at $250,000 for an ex-convict accused of violently striking his girlfriend in the face -- breaking an orbital bone impairing her vision -- and choking her... Read More.

By Patti Weaver      STILLWATER -- A 60-year-old Edmond man has been charged with embezzling $23,580 from the Stillwater Pioneer Booster Club during a seven-month period between Oct. 4, 2021, and May 5, 2022, while... Read More.

By Patti Weaver   (Stillwater, Okla.) -- A 65-year-old Tulsa man pleaded guilty Wednesday to repeatedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old relative when he lived in Cushing in 2023, court records show.    Thomas Wayne Spencer was jailed... Read More.