Welling News

A* Special Writer Betty Ridge discussed pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly forms of the disease.

Cherokee County employees will receive incentive awards for safety performances in 2009 after action taken Monday by the county board of commissioners.

Meral Alan Judkins reported to the sheriff's department a protective order violation on Tuesday.

Drivers along Oklahoma highways and area roads have noticed the vegetation along the roadside becoming increasingly brown and parched.

Three Welling residents were injured by a drunk driver in a head-on collision east of Tahlequah near Welling Friday evening.

An eastern Oklahoma man has been arrested and transported to federal court in connection with an investigation of a brutal dog-fighting conspiracy.

Brandy Evans reported to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office that the father of her children will not return her children to her.

A convicted robber was scheduled to appear in court Thursday on an application to revoke his nine-year suspended sentence, after being arrested with marijuana in his pocket on Monday.

Cherokee County sheriff's deputies arrested an area man early Tuesday after responding to a dispute that occurred at the Welling Bridge.

* Special Writer Betty Ridge was on hand this morning for WhiteBison's Tahlequah leg of a 40-day, 6,800-mile cross-country journey to present and former Indian school sites on a "Journey For Forgiveness." * Staff Writer Teddye Snell has an update on summer skin care.

A man and woman charged with knowingly concealing stolen property face a July court appearance after being arraigned Tuesday afternoon.

A Welling man who fired a gun at a longtime Tahlequah police officer last October was ordered held for trial Monday.

A dispute simmers in the hills and hollers of rural Cherokee County. Not a shooting war, mind you.

Cherokee County commissioners approved a series of documents Wednesday morning concerning an application for a $350,000 Community Development Block Grant.