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A rash of gang violence in Wewoka, a town of about 3,200 people 70 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, has residents on edge, churches calling for peace and local police asking state and federal ...
WEWOKA — On an overcast Thursday morning in a parking lot off State Highway 56 in this small city about 70 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, two police cars parked parallel to each other with ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Oklahoma.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 483 law enforcement agencies employing 8,639 sworn police officers, about 237 for each 100,000 residents.
The police force was increased and began to get the crime rate under control. The crime rate by 2001 was below average for the state of Oklahoma. The historic downtown received a face lift of new sidewalks, streets, lights and flowers. Wewoka was selected as one of Channel 5's Top Five Cities in 2004.
Lich Vu, 70, was violently thrown onto the pavement during an argument with Oklahoma City Police Department officer Joseph Gibson at the scene of a collision on Oct. 27, troubling footage shared ...
Born on January 19, 1980, [2] Heather Rose Rich [1] was the third child of Gail and Duane Rich, who moved to Waurika, Oklahoma, in 1974. The Riches chose Waurika for its insulating nature; it reminded them of their hometown of Elgin, Oklahoma—a "place where kids couldn't get into too much trouble because there wasn't much trouble to get into."
The four-person police force of Geary, a town of about 1,000 some 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, quit en masse Thursday with little explanation, and two members of the city council also ...
The J. Coody Johnson Building, at 124 N. Wewoka St. in Wewoka, Oklahoma, was built in 1916.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]It was deemed significant for its association with J. Coody Johnson, a grandson of slaves to the Creek Nation who became a Howard University-educated lawyer and who represented the Creek Nation before the U.S. Supreme Court.