Washita County News

Authorities and family members are searching for a missing Elk City man. Anthony Holland, 51, was last seen June 21 at a gun show in Elk City.

Voters have approved new jails in two Oklahoma counties. Washita County residents voted in favor of a three-quarter-cent sales tax that will go toward building a new jail and renovating the current one.

Woodward County Commissioners took a step Monday toward building a new jail by entering into an agreement with an architectural corporation to have a plan developed.

People are being asked to leave their homes in Wellston in Lincoln County because of grassfires there, according to media reports and an Edmond woman who has relatives there.

Hollywood has moved to Oklahoma, as the upcoming film, "The Killer Inside Me" plans casting calls and schedules filming throughout the state.

State jail inspector Don Garrison remembers a time not long ago when meetings with county commissioners statewide filled his daily calendar.

Washington Post columnist George Will recently has written of how the national Endowment for the Humanities is distributing to schools throughout the nation a compilation of 40 works of art titled "Picturing ...

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