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Assessor’s audit results

The Oklahoma State Board of Equalization certified that Lincoln County Assessor Jackie Holcomb’s office is in compliance with two major annual audits at its meeting on Dec. 1. The State Board reviewed information on all 77 counties and acted upon the recommendation of the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

Deferred sentences

A Stroud woman has admitted charges of enabling physical abuse of a minor and child neglect and has been handed two, five-year deferred sentences. Melissa Suzanne Reinhardt, 39, was formally charged April 8 in Lincoln County District Court with enabling physical abuse of a minor and child neglect.

Assault and battery charge

Chandler police and a Lincoln County deputy arrested a subject after they were called to a reported domestic assault of a woman who had suffered a stroke three weeks earlier.

Three arrested in county burglary

Three people from Stroud were arrested recently by Lincoln County Sheriff deputies and Stroud police officers charged with acting in concert with one another. Brandi Rae Brown, 47, Mavis Yevonne Brooks, 51, and Shawn Paul Brown, 26, each are charged with second degree burglary.
Wellston Christmas parade

Wellston Christmas parade

Wellston Christmas parade

Santa and his nemesis, yonder Grinch, made appearances at the Wellston Christmas parade Saturday. Santa made his run on a seasonally-appropriate red Farmall tractor.
Hearing continued in grow house bust

Hearing continued in grow house bust

Hearing continued in grow house bust

A pre-preliminary hearing has been continued again for the owner of a major illegal marijuana grow operation who was charged following her arrest by agents in June. Sai Ying Lin, 48, of Tryon, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court June 23.

School board contested races

The three-day filing period for school board offices closed last week and races developed in two Lincoln County school districts and in two Pottawatomie County school districts. In Carney, Ronald Brown, Jacob Thompson and Jesse Townsend will be on the ballot in the Feb. 8 primary election.

Trial set in murder case

A Lincoln County District judge has scheduled a jury trial for a Harrah man charged with first degree murder in the death of a 21-year-old Stroud resident earlier this year.

More charges in Stroud case

A Stroud man who was awaiting a preliminary hearing on two charges of assault and battery on a police officer faces a new felony count and two misdemeanors.

Hearing set in kidnapping

A preliminary hearing is scheduled next month for a man charged with two felonies, including kidnapping for extortion and robbery with a weapon.