Bryan County News

The remains of what could be a Bokchito girl stuffed in a plastic, buried, then dug up and taken across the country.

We're following a bizarre story that's unfolding in Havre, and this one has implications across several states.

A southern Oklahoma couple buried an 11-year-old girl, dug up her remains several times and moved the body from place to place for more than a year, according to arrest warrants issued Tuesday.

A 31-year-old Caddo, Okla., man has died at a Dallas hospital, one day after suffering extensive injuries in an accident on U.S. Highway 69 in Bryan County in southeastern Oklahoma.

Bryan County Commissioners Monty Montgomery, District No. 1, Tony Simmons, District No.

A Durant woman has been charged with allowing a convicted sex abuser to abuse a 14-year-old girl.

U.S. Congressman Dan Boren will host an official ribbon cutting and open house at 1 p.m. Wednesday at his new district office in Durant, located at 112 N. 12th Ave.

Bryan County Commissioners discussed several items of business Monday morning, including approving a bid for a four-door sedan to be used by the Sheriffa s Department and accepting a volunteer fire department as part of a county district.

Bryan County businessman Chris Pierce announced today his candidacy for the District 21 State Representative seat now held by John Carey.

Breaking news out of Bryan County. Authorities, wrapping up the scene at U.S. 70 West out in front of the Jiffy Mart in Mead, where a two-year-old was reportedly hit by a vehicle.

For the first time in the history of the tribe, there will be no election for the Choctaw Nation Tribal Council because no one filed against the incumbents.

A Bryan County man was robbed of his winnings and then assaulted after leaving the Choctaw Casino early Friday morning.

Pictured are, from left, Adam Frey, OG&E material handler, Pamela Robinson, Bryan County United Way director, Steve Dill, OG&E serviceman, Kathy Gooding, SODA Area Agency on Aging director, Tiffany Neal, SODA ombudsman supervisor, Debbie Odom, SODA information assistance coordinator, and Elizabeth Reynolds.

A local highway is to be renamed after Leon Sherrer. Sherrer, left, is being presented with a state resolution by State Rep.

The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the sheriff of Bryan County, Okla., that, if approved by the U.S. District Court in Muskogee, Okla., will resolve the Department's employment discrimination complaint against the Sheriff, also filed today with the court.

DURANT a ' A suspect arrested over the weekend for suspicion of shooting and robbing a man remains in jail on no bond while the Bryan County District Attorneya TMs Office prepares charges.

DURANT a ' Local law enforcement were dispatched Friday at about 10:30 p.m. to the 900 block of W. Cedar Street in regards to a shooting.

A Denison, Texas, man arrested in March for outraging public decency after authorities said he exposed himself at the Denison Dam could be facing an additional charge.

A man punched out two windows causing serious injury to his arm Tuesday night. At about 8:50 p.m., Officer Logan Prather, Durant Police Department, was dispatched to the 200 block of South Fifth Avenue in response to an injured man.

GA: Scientists tapped for wastewater plant study McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted Officials from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division will meet with scientists from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography next week to discuss how to study a coastal river that would be affected by a controversial wastewater treatment ...