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3 days ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A pre-preliminary hearing has been continued for a Meeker man facing two felonies. A bench warrant for his arrest was issued at the same time but has now been returned. Richard Allen Foster, 61, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court March 14, 2025, with failure to comply with sex offender registration and sex offender living within 2,000 feet of a school.
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3 days ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body Meeker Town Board of Trustees have approved both the General Operating and Public Works Authority budgets for 2025-2026. They unanimously approved a General Operating budget of $923,040 which is about $76,000 different than the current budget which ends June 30. They also adopted a resolution on the budget that begins July 1.
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3 days ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A Meeker man has died in a one-vehicle traffic collision over the weekend in Kingfisher County. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Robert Cottrill, of Troop J, who investigated the collision, identified the driver who died as Aaron C. Standlee, 42. Cottrill said Standlee was pronounced deceased at the scene by Kingfisher EMS due to injuries sustained in the collision. He reported that the collision occurred just before 7 p.m. on County Road N.
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1 week ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body Chandler Board of Education members re-employed all of its support, approved open transfers to the Chandler School District for School Year 2025/2026, hired six new personnel and accepted four resignations during their most recent meeting. The new employees hired include Courtney Clark, cafeteria staff worker; Brittany Cook, paraprofessional; and elementary teachers Jon Onstroski, Shelby Lavendusky and Madison Worley; and an elementary counselor, Brandi Perkins.
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1 week ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
AChandlerwomanhas been arrested for allegedly embezzling $170,000 from a Meeker business and she was transported to the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler. Meeker Assistant Police Chief Scott Wilson identified the woman as Lesa Manning, 64. Court records show that a $25,000 bench warrant was issued for her arrest on June 12. Special Judge Emily Mueller set Manning’s bond. Her initial appearance is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 23.
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1 week ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
An Agra man scheduled to go to trial on several counts of child sexual abuse has entered a no contest plea instead and drawn a suspended term. John David Somers, Jr., 33 at the time he was charged, appeared before District Judge Sarah Bridge recently and entered a no contest plea to four counts of child sexual abuse. The judge advised him they were 85 percent crimes. As a result of a plea bargain, he withdrew his original plea of innocent and entered the no contest plea.
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1 week ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A Harrah man, rather than go to trial, has pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16. Christian Watkins was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court with the two counts. Recently, appearing before Associate District Judge Joe Dobry and as the results of a plea deal, withdrew his previous of guilty and entered a plea of nolo contendere. The judge found him guilty on both counts and the judge advised Watkins they were 85 percent crimes.
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2 weeks ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A 59-year-old man facing multiple charges for alleged sex crimes against minors has been been convicted of child neglect. Mark Leon Miller, Sr., of Midwest City, appeared before District Judge Sarah Bridge March 25 on formal charges filed against him on Aug. 15, 2024 in Lincoln County District Court. They included enabling child sexual abuse, enabling child sexual exploitation and child neglect. The jury has recommended two years in prison as punishment. Associate Judge Joe Dobry.
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2 weeks ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A pair from Edmond, charged with five felonies each and who have each pleaded innocent to the charges have been set for trial the second week of the current jury term. Whitney Nicole Akins, 34, and Anthony DeShawn Holman, 36, each face charges of first degree burglary, kidnapping, possess firearm during commission of a felony, assault with intent to commit a felony and pattern of criminal offenses.
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2 weeks ago | 
lcnok.com | Mike McCormick |Mike Mccormick
Body A Wellston woman has died from injuries she suffered in a three-vehicle traffic collision on U.S. 177 in Pottawatomie County and a Wellston man was critically injured in the crash. State Highway Patrol Trooper Preston Davis, of the Patrol’s Traffic Homicde Divsion, identified the woman who died as Janice Marie Olson, 56. The trooper said she was transported to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City with head and trunk injuries and was pronounced deceased by OU Medical Trauma.
