Latimer County News

After nearly two weeks of combing the heavily wooded Sans Bois Mountain area in southeast Oklahoma, the Latimer County Sheriff's Office on Friday called off its ground search for a missing Eufaula family.

Prosecutors are deciding whether to file criminal charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene.

The FBI and state agents are looking for clues in the disappearance of an Oklahoma family that's been missing for two weeks.

Another search of a rural area near Red Oak in Latimer County is scheduled for Wednesday for any clues in the disappearance of a missing Eufaula family.

The search for a missing Eufaula family continued Saturday in southeastern Oklahoma, but the size of the search party was scaled back.

Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn and their six-year-old daughter Madyson were last seen October 9. Volunteers have spent the past two days scouring Panola Mountain in rural Latimer County, where the family's abandoned truck was found.

Search efforts for a family missing for two weeks in rural Latimer County got off to a slow start this morning due to muddy mountain road conditions.

A massive search for a missing family of three from Eufaula in rural Latimer County began this morning.

A Eufaula family of three that was looking at land to buy in Latimer County has been missing for nearly two weeks.

A family has disappeared in Latimer County. Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison and their six-year-old daughter Madyson live in Eufaula.

As jubilation dissipates over the discovery that Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy believed to have been trapped in a helium-filled balloon, was really at home, questions continue to arise.

The District 16 Task Force along with the LeFlore and Latimer County Sheriffs Departments executed a narcotics search warrant Friday night at the Leflore home of Joshua Pope.

A Norman resident was killed in a car collision Saturday morning on State Highway 2 in Latimer County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

An Oct. 23 court date has been set to hear a plea from one of the last two suspects arrested in a case involving thousands of dollars in outdoor furniture stolen by employees.

The following changes have been made to the On-System Load Posted List. The bridge on S.H. 1 over Rock Creek in Leflore County NBI # 05031 structure number 4036 0034 X located .3 miles east of the Latimer county line has been rerated.

WILBURTON This October you have your chance. While many Oklahomans fight the calendar to purchase a home before the $8,000 federal tax exemption expires in December, the buy of a lifetime could be deep in southeastern Oklahoma.

A former jailer is scheduled to appear in court Friday as one of the last three defendants in a case involving the theft of $80,000 in outdoor furniture.

E. F. "Baldy" Fields, 86, of Hartshorne, died Wed-nesday, July 15, 2009, at his home in Hartshorne.

A Wilburton woman died early Monday after a single-vehicle crash Sunday evening in Latimer County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

A small-town sheriff and his top deputy kept close watch over a lonely stretch of interstate in eastern Oklahoma, looking for drug couriers to fleece.