Waurika News

During the routine Monday meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, a full-time employee for the fairgrounds was hired.

With state funding cutbacks already underway, Jefferson County Commissioners are giving support to an effort to ensure that Tri-County Elderly Nutrition and senior citizens sites in the county will remain open.

The October distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission were down again across the area.

Seventh-grade students are in a time when they're learning who they are and are on the brink of making major life choices.

Shannon Smith's oil painting, Stage IV, was picked as People's Choice in a recent art show, but having cancer is not a choice.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnston of Waurika, Okla., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday.

The numbers didn't look good for the September distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

More than 55 grams of crack cocaine and powder cocaine are off the streets, along with two alleged drug traffickers, after a combined effort between three law enforcement agencies Sunday in which the arrests were made.

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With a Waurika High School student in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Juvenile Affairs, school authorities were praising the efficiency of the system in defusing a potentially dangerous situation.

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Justin Blake Adams will spend at least 10 years in prison after he was convicted of arson and burglary connected to a fire that destroyed half of First United Methodist Church of Waurika last fall.

Waurika Police Chief Earnest Tolle has been placed on paid suspension, pending an appearance before an appeals board.

Waurika Police Chief Earnest Tolle has been placed on paid suspension, pending an appearance before an appeals board.

Waurika Police Chief Earnest Tolle has been placed on paid suspension, pending an appearance before an appeals board.

Motorists and business that have been using areas along the west side of the historic Waurika Rock Island Depot as a parking lot need to find a new place to stash their vehicles.

Four of the five Jefferson County residents arrested in a multi-agency drug bust on June 24 are out on bond awaiting preliminary hearings, while a fifth remains in Texas.

After law enforcement put eight people behind bars last week in Stephens County on charges of distribution of a controlled drug, the District Attorney Drug Task Force Team turned its sight toward Jefferson County.

The Chickasha Future Water Supply Committee met Thursday to discuss several potential plans for Chickasha water availability, with two potential studies helping the board create a tentative plan to supplement the current and future water supply.

A new construction company will get a shot at completing one of the county's longest-standing tasks, after the Jefferson County Commissioners accepted a bid for work on what has become known as the "courthouse improvements project." During a regular meeting at the county courthouse, the commissioners accepted a bid of $79,950 from BME Construction.