Heavener News

POTEAU/HEAVENER - The parents of a slain wister woman are defending their daughter and dispelling rumors, all while trying to keep the public focused on finding her killer.

POTEAU, Okla. - The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has lost its good standing with a national organization.

Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a man in a homicide probe that began more than a year ago.

An medical examiner soon will sign off on the cause of death of Jody Rilee-Wilson, a Roxbury native whose body was found under suspicious circumstances near an Oklahoma state Park in early May.

WISTER a ' Authorities are seeking help from the public in their investigation of a Wister womana TMs unsolved death.

Heavener dispatcher and reserve police officer Trena Nixon turned herself in to authorities on Friday and has been charged with with 21 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Two Muskogee residents, a Tahlequah man and a Stilwell woman were among those indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury meeting in Muskogee.

A part-time police officer from southeast Oklahoma has won a new car as part of a state lottery promotion.

United States Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling announced the results of the June 2009 Federal Grand Jury.

OG&E recently began delivering 1,000 electric fans to agencies serving low-income and elderly citizens across its 30,000 square mile service area.

Authorities in Oklahoma and New Jersey are investigating the death last month of Jody Rilee-Wilson. Her body was discovered on May 8 in the area of Poteau Mountain near Heavener Runestone State Park.

Jody Rilee-Wilson's Chevrolet Blazer was located last week in the parking lot of the Pig Out Palace in Henryetta, Okla., according to news reports, and investigators said the car had been in the lot between three and four weeks.

New York, NY, June 11, 2009 -- Central National Bank of Poteau has recently deployed Edcomm Bankera s Academya s bank training solution, Bankera s Academy Unlimited.

A road that was closed when an Oklahoma lake flooded has finally reopened. Highway 270 has been closed for more than two weeks because of flooding at Lake Wister.

By Laura Young, Managing Editor The body of Joe Neff was discovered by two fishermen Sunday evening.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is still working on a case involving a suspicious death in Leflore County.

ROXBURY -- Oklahoma authorities have identified the body of a woman found Friday in a densely wooded state park as a 2003 graduate of Roxbury High School and daughter of the township's deputy mayor.

A woman's body found in an Oklahoma state park is not that of Kathleen Garza, a Coppell woman who went missing last month.

Authorities said the badly decomposed body of a woman has been found in a state park in southeastern Oklahoma.

Two men died in separate vehicle crashes on Sunday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.