Weleetka News

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.

The two girls were shot multiple times while walking on a rural road last year. Area residents bid on dozens of items while purchasing five dollar food plates.

About two dozen volunteers from a Tulsa company traveled to Weleetka to help revitalize the downtown that was damaged by fire.

Weleetka residents are hoping to raise some serious cash on Sunday. The murders of 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker and 11-year-old Skyla Jade Whitaker have hit the tight-knit community hard.

Family and friends join together to remember the girls who were gunned down on a rural road exactly one year ago today.

AM 740 and FM 102.3 News/Talk KRMG's Steve Berg reports most people, including officials, think the killer of two Weleetka girls last year is someone who actually lives in the area.

Law enforcement officials pleaded Monday for the public's help in finding the killer or killers of two Weleetka girls on the anniversary of the shootings.

"I do believe that if you allow yourself to cry to grieve over it, then you don't carry this weight," Zingman said.

Residents will gather at the high school Monday for a service of community healing, recalling the lives of two young girls who were murdered near here on June 8 last year.

Monday will mark a year after the murders of two young Weleetka girls which left the community shocked and scared.

It has been a year since the shooting deaths of two young girls in a small town south of Tulsa, an unsolved crime which shocked the area and the nation.

State investigators are planning to discuss publicly the unsolved murders of two young girls who were found shot to death nearly a year ago along a dirt road in rural Okfuskee County.

Weleetka residents refuse to give up their revenue and retail services in the wake of a devastating blaze.

An investigator from the state Fire Marshal's office interviewed witnesses today in Weleetka.

Friday's fire left downtown looking as if a bomb went off, Mayor Jimpsey Micco said.

A fire burned down about two-thirds of a city block here, one of several that broke out across Oklahoma Friday.

Firefighters are searching for the cause of a fire that destroyed an entire city block in Weleetka.

A fire in a flower shop in downtown Weleetka turned into a raging inferno that consumed at least five businesses, including a famous restaurant.

You can check out pictures by clicking the slideshow link to the right. 12:54 - Crews from Holdenville, Wetumka, Okemah, and Henryetta are on the scene.

More than a city block of Weleetka is on fire. A police dispatcher says crews from all over are fighting the flames.