Brent News

His grandparents are Joy Ogle and the late Richard Ogle of Felt, Oklahoma, Elnor Harland of Texhoma, Edward Lee Harland of Oklahoma City, and great-grandparent Buena Shilling of Texhoma.

Charles Cox, looks over the rubble that is left of his home after a fire broke out Monday.

Sequoyah County Commissioners apologized Tuesday to a room full of the countya s volunteer firefighters, and said a proposition to take money from a sales tax fund to pay county bills was a mistake.

Sequoyah County Commissioners, when they tried to take $40,000 from the county fire departmentsa fee account at Mondaya s commission meeting, ran into questions posed by county firefighters about what they consider their money.

Sallisaw Jail inmates Timothy Sumpter and Matthew Long escaped from the city jail shortly after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, but where captured shortly after.

The Adrian McGowan family home on Wildhorse Mountain south of Sallisaw burned early Monday.

A Pocola man was admitted Thursday to a Fort Smith, Ark., hospital in critical condition after a single vehicle crash a mile north of Muldrow.

Sequoyah County prosecutors say the shooting death of a man by his daughter near the unincorporated community of Brent was justified and no charges will be filed.