Washington County News

A Washington County animal shelter is bucking a national trend. While adoptions are down across the country, a shelter is using photography to enhance the image of its homeless pets.

Candidates for boards of education in five Washington County school districts will file Declarations of Candidacy from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Dec.

The home's owner says when he went to the garage, a gunman, who police say is James Reed , pointed a rifle at him and forced him back inside.

Two men are in custody after a search of a Dewey residence on Wednesday revealed what investigators are calling a shake and bake meth lab.

DEWEY a ' A 36-year-old Dewey woman was charged with domestic assault and battery in Washington County District Court after a Saturday night dispute in which she allegedly grabbed her disabled mother by the hair and threw her out of a wheelchair, bit her sister and struck a child.

Authorities say he admitted to com- mitting inappropri- ate sexual acts with patients.

With Thanksgiving only weeks away and Christmas in less than two months, one local law enforcement agency plans on bringing the Holiday cheer to needy families throughout Washington County.

A Bartlesville man has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to abusing patients at a nursing home.

A Bartlesville man is behind bars after he allegedly attacked a boy riding a bicycle on Halloween and shortly after threatened to kill him.

A 58-year-old Washington County man is in jail after allegedly attacking a boy who lives in his northwest Bartlesville neighborhood on Halloween.

BARTLESVILLE a ' A 31-year-old Bartlesville man will not be allowed to care for the elderly or children under a sentence imposed by a Washington County judge after he pleaded guilty to abusing patients at the former Silver Lake Care Center nursing home.

Bartlesville police arrested a Bartlesville man Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to strangle his wife.

A Copan man faces charges for the rape of a girl under 14 years-old. Cody James Lea, 19, faces a charge of first degree rape.

The Washington County Health Department will host a free a oeno appointment necessarya flu clinic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct.

SENTENCED Kyle Willaford: A judge sentenced the former police officer to community service and substance-abuse treatment.

HELD WITHOUT BAIL Paul Lloyd Waller Jr.: He expressed surprise when a police detective said the Medical Examiner's Office determined that the knife wound that killed Steven Rippy was 7 1/2 inches deep.

A 63-year-old Bartlesville man charged with threatening to cut the ear off of an 11-year-old boy was arraigned Monday in Washington County District Court.

A Bartlesville man has been arrested for first-degree murder in the weekend stabbing death of another man.

Bartlesville police say a man has confessed in the stabbing death of Steven Rippy Jr.

Sign at entrance to the DPS campus The Washington County Health Department dispensed nearly 500 doses of the swine flu vaccine to students and staff at the Dewey Public School District Thursday.