Archive - 2013
February 1st
By
Tracy Steffenson, Publisher
Antlers Police Department’s Officer Stewart Stanfield responded to a call from the Garden Walk Apartments in Antlers after a neighbor reported hearing children crying, yelling and items being thrown in a neighboring apartment.
According to reports, Officer Stanfield arrived at the apartment complex just in time to see an adult female screaming for help while running with a baby carriage with a small child inside, and trying to hold onto two female children who were crying. The female was identified as Shelia Knox.
Average retail gasoline prices in Oklahoma have risen 13.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.16/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 2,294 gas outlets in Oklahoma. This compares with the national average that has increased 4.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.31/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Board of Directors held its final 2012 session on December 13th in Oklahoma City. The Board of Directors is comprised of 25 representatives from member agencies across the State of Oklahoma consisting of both lawyers and clients. Lawyer representatives are selected from local bar associations and other legal organizations. Client representatives are selected from clients and agencies who service our clients.
The Pushmataha County OSU Cooperative Extension Service in Antlers would like to Welcome Julie Staiger to our office. Julie will be the new Family -Consumer Sciences and Half Time 4-H educator for our county.
January 28th
By
Tracy Steffenson, Publisher
When an inmate in Pushmataha County jail found out that her Dell Laptop had been pawned, an arrest warrant was issued.
Police Chief Dwayne Morgan received a call from the Pushmataha County Jail and the jailer told him that Amber Kirkley was currently incarcerated in the jail due to a violation in drug court and was picked up on November 19, 2012. Kirkley had found out that Bobby Ray Merritt had pawned her laptop computer at Duncan’s Pawn Shop and she wanted to file charges against Merritt.
By
Tracy Steffenson, Publisher
In December, the U.S. health officials announced that this year’s influenza season had started early and they predicted it would hit the United States hard. Unfortunately, as reports from around the country make clear, they were right.
Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, expressed support for raising additional taxes as a part of any negotiation for deficit reducing measures. On the CBS Sunday program, Face The Nation, Leader Pelosi was quoted as saying the recent fiscal cliff tax increase of $620 billion was “Not nearly enough on the revenue side.”
Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) issued the following statement in response to Leader Pelosi’s call for raising taxes on more Americans:
