Delaware County News

A 22-year-old Tulsa man was killed when his motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve just outside Jay in Delaware County.

Glenn Stinchcomb has a nostalgic attachment to the old Beck Mill in southeastern Delaware County.

Voters in Sand Springs and Owasso overwhelmingly approved more than $60 million in bonds for school improvements Tuesday.

A Delaware County boy underwent an hour-long surgery, receiving more than 100 stitches in his face and neck, after being mauled by a Great Dane at a Grand Lake dog walk.

An Adair County jury has acquitted an area man on charges of transmitting threatening letters.

Faith-based programs are the key to turning around the drug problems in northeast Oklahoma, a state official said Wednesday.

Services for Toney Gerald Bennett, 28, and Elijah Daniel Bennett, 4, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Roberts Chapel Funeral Home in Westville.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics will host a public forum to discuss crime and substance abuse 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Grove Civic Center, 1820 S. Main Street.

About 75 people turned out for a town meeting Thursday evening to hear city and school leaders discuss "sexting" and the abuse of prescription drugs in Fairland.

Cherokee County's jobless rate increased slightly in August, an Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission report states.

The Delaware County jail, despite a threat of fines by the state for overcrowding, was able to handle the influx of 35 inmates after a state drug raid, according to the sheriff's office.

MIAMI, Okla. - Drug agents served 70 search warrants Monday morning before dawn in what the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics calls the largest operation in the state.

It's time again for the annual DAM J.A.M. Bicycle Tour. Barbara Hawkins, president of the Pryor Area Chamber of Commerce, said 450 cyclists have pre-registered for 18th annual event.

A man who is suspected of beating a woman to death more than a year ago was arrested Tuesday after a lengthy investigation into the slaying.

Family members say the girl's father died in a drowning near Mexico. CHARGED WITH MURDER Roger L. Dry: He is accused of killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter, who officials said died of shaken-baby syndrome.

ACCUSED OF SHAKING BABY Roger L. Dry: Delaware County authorities say he violently shook his girlfriend's daughter, 2-year-old Emily Hernandez, after she began crying Monday.

A Delaware County man has been charged with first degree murder for shaking a child to death.

A child was found unresponsive Monday at a home in the area of Kansas, Oklahoma in Delaware County.

A 16-year-old Delaware County boy accused of raping and stabbing a teenage girl 20 times last month remains in the Tulsa County jail held on $200,000 bail.

A former Jay minister confessed to police that he had an a oeinappropriate, unlawful sexual relationshipa with a 15-year-old girl while he was the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church, a court affidavit states.