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A Weatherford man was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter by a judge on Tuesday. The ruling came after a two day bench trial that started on Monday in Custer County District Court. 22-year-old Cole Issac Phillips was convicted of the crime that took place on April 4, 2020 in a home in the 700 block of East College Street in Weatherford, where he shot another man two times after a dispute over marijuana. Phillips would claim during a preliminary hearing last November, and again during test...

By News Director Jared Atha The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics conducted two raids Friday morning at a home and a medical marijuana farm in Logan County, seizing about ten to fifteen thousand plants due to criminal activity. A couple months ago, OBN received a tip that there was marijuana being sold in bulk on the black market. Mark Woodward, spokesman for OBN, said the business in Guthrie appears legal, however behind the scenes it is a different story saying OBN is looking at this as a criminal...

By News Director Jared Atha A Clinton man received a felony charge last week in Custer County District Court after allegedly sending sexually graphic letters to two women. According to court documents, 41-year-old Jason Dale Schmidt received one felony charge of transmitting a threatening letter after actually sending two similar letters to two women last September. According to the probable cause affidavit filed last week, an investigator reviewed a report of a woman who received one of the le...

Severe storm chances return this afternoon and tonight in the region. KOCO Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane says he expects a tornado watch to be issued for mainly southwest Oklahoma. Currently the National Weather Service in Norman has issued a tornado watch until 9 p.m. for area south west Oklahoma counties including Greer, Kiowa, and Jackson. The watch includes Altus, Granite, Hobart, and Mangum. Lane says areas around and including Elk City, Clinton and Weatherford have a small risk of tornad...

By News Director Jared Atha A bill that seeks to correct funding disparities for brick-and-mortar public schools in low property value areas while addressing charter school funding passed the House on Wednesday. Senate Bill 229, co-authored by Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, creates the Redbud School Funding Act, which proposes using medical marijuana taxes and the Common School Building Equalization Fund to provide annual per-student funding grants to eligible school districts and charter schoo...

The latest Elk City sales, use, and cigarette tax numbers were revealed during the recent Elk City Commissioner's meeting.

Because the 2020 census data has not yet been released, the maps released on Wednesday were drawn using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015-2019 American Community Survey. The ideal population was 38,939 for each House district and 81,935 for each Senate district, although state law allows for a variance of up to 5%. The largest district is still House District 61 in the Panhandle and northwest Oklahoma, which grew from 7,981 square miles to 8,296 square miles. The smallest district is Ho...

The Elk City Commission is scheduled to meet in regular session Wednesday afternoon. According to the posted agenda the business as usual affair will see the Commission consider several purchases including a 2020 Tahoe Police Package for just over $53,000, a bid for a new equipment trailer for the street department for $58,450, two 30 yard roll-offs for $12,470, and equipment for the water plant for the replacement of defective equipment for just over $22,400. All budgeted items. The Commission...

By News Director Jared Atha After a police investigation, it was determined that a man’s claim of being hit by a car while riding his bicycle may have been untrue. According to an accident report from the Weatherford Police Department, the incident occurred on the afternoon of April 5 when, according to the juvenile female driver of a 2011 Hyundai, while clearing the intersection of Saber Lane and Terrace Drive, the driver noticed a man, later identified as being a Lawrence Sittingbear, on a ...

A Shamrock, Texas man passed away after a motorcycle accident Monday afternoon in Wheeler County. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred at a county road intersection 12 miles north of Shamrock when 61-year-old Robert Miles was riding his 1995 Harley Davidson northbound on CR 19. DPS says the rider failed to yield at the intersection of FM 1906 and struck the 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe driven by 36-year-old Shana Reeves of Wheeler. DPS says the collision was so har...