Harmon County News

A southwest Oklahoma couple has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling from the Hollis Cotton Oil Mill where they worked.

Hollis couple Michael and Lori Edmonds pled guilty in Harmon County District Court Tuesday on embezzlement charges.

Steven Carter, 44, of Olustee, and Joe Don Allen, 47, of Hollis, have been arrested after a burglary in Greer County this past Friday.

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Lori Edmonds, the head bookkeeper at the Hollis Cotton Oil Mill, along with her husband Mike Edmonds, a truck driver for the company until April of last year, are said to have embezzled almost $120,000 from the mill.

A dairy in far southwestern Oklahoma has closed after months of downsizing. Carl Bromlow, the general manager of the Harmon County Dairy, says its final day was on Thursday.

A Hollis woman, Charity Pennington, 18, was Air Evaced to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City Friday after a wreck at the intersection of East County Road 1550 and North County Road 1810 in Harmon County.

Oklahoma's Hispanic population has grown by 55 percent since 2000, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the state.

HOLLIS a ' Officials are handing out bottled water to Hollis residents because of E. coli bacteria in the Harmon County towna TMs water supply, authorities said.