Weleetka News

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is announcing the creation of a new cold case unit.

National Weather Service meteorologists and Okfuskee County emergency management officials said a storm that moved through east-central Oklahoma on Thursday produced a brief, weak tornado.

The storm moved through at about 11:15 a.m. Thursday morning. Officials from the National Weather Service and Okfuskee County Emergency Management surveyed the damage and determined that a weak tornado was briefly on the ground.

Heavy rain and wind pounded parts of Oklahoma, leaving minor damage and flooding in parts of the state.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown says the reward will be renewed Wednesday for another 90 days.

Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Jade Whittaker, 11, were shot with two weapons, police say.

Many homes and business have to clean up after Thursday night's storms. The superintendent of Weleetka Public Schools said they have flooding in their primary building.

The clock continues to tick on state investigators trying to solve the homicide of the Rev.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has set up a booth at the Oklahoma State Fair this year in an effort to solicit the public's help to crack unsolved cases.

State investigators sent a formal request to the FBI for help in solving the grisly killing of a pastor inside her church in Anadarko.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents say many recent tips in the case of two girls shot to death near Weleetka last year are "not-so-valuable." Agents say they've received a large number of new tips since the reward in the case was raised to $160,000. A group of Tulsa-area oilmen last week helped increase the reward in the killings of ...

A coalition of Tulsa-area oilmen have helped increase to $160,000 the reward offered for information in the shooting deaths of two girls near the town of Weleetka last summer.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents say many recent tips in the case of two girls shot to death near Weleetka last year are "not-so-valuable." Agents say they've received a large number of new tips since the reward in the case was raised to $160,000. A group of Tulsa-area oilmen last week helped increase the reward in the killings of ...

A Wetumka man accused of locking a girl in a tool box for 16- hours this week also faces previous charges of child abuse and violating a protective order involving the same girl.

WETUMKA a ' A Wetumka man arrested Tuesday is accused of locking a 16-year-old Weleetka girl in a toolbox for 16 hours and holding a heated screwdriver against her body.

No murder case in recent memory has been more frustrating for law enforcement, the families of the victims and the general public than the unsolved shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka on June 8, 2008.

New developments in the murders of two young Weleetka girls. The reward to find the killer increased significantly Thursday.

The reward to find the killed of two girls in Weleetka has gone up to $160,000. An anonymous donor has given $70,000 and a two area oil companies, Dexxon Inc.

State investigators announced that an increase in the reward offered for information in the shooting deaths of two girls near the town of Weleetka last summer has been raised to $160,000. The money was donated from an anonymous donor and two Tulsa area independent oil companies, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Kathryn Cole considered it harmless horseplay when her granddaughter, who had just turned 5, reached over and touched her breast during a dinner at her home last September.