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Amy Schmidt
Funeral Services for Amy Schmidt, age 47, of Clinton were held Monday, July 1, 2024, at the Clinton, Custer Ave. Church of Christ, with Pat Peters officiating, burial proceeded the service Monday in the Stafford Cemetery, both services were under the direction of the Lee Hometown Funeral Home. Amy Noelle...
Claressa Whiteskunk
Funeral services for Claressa Jeanelle Whiteskunk, 39, of Weatherford, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in the Hammon Emergency Response Center in Hammon. She was born March 15, 1985, in Oklahoma City. She died June 27, 2024, in Oklahoma City. Services are under the direction of...
Kathy Regier
Memorial services for Mrs. Kathy Regier, age 81, longtime Cordell businesswoman, will begin at 10:00am Monday, July 8, 2024, in the Cordell First United Methodist Church, 216 South Glenn L. English Street with Reverend Michelle McCarty officiating. Arrangements for Kathy and her family are under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee...
Avery Ryan Short
Funeral services for Avery Ryan Short, 1, of Weatherford, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 5, 2024, at the First Baptist Church of Weatherford. She was born June 12, 2023, in Yukon. She died June 28, 2024, in Weatherford. Services are under the direction of Lee Hometown Funeral...
Oklahoma man executed for rape, murder of 7-year-old former stepdaughter
After spending more than 40 years on death row, an Oklahoma man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 7-year-old girl was executed on Thursday. Richard Rojem Jr. was given a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m., prison officials confirmed. He’d been the longest serving inmate on Oklahoma’s death row.
Oklahoma executes Richard Rojem Jr. in ex-stepdaughter's murder
Oklahoma executed death row inmate Richard Rojem Jr. by lethal injection Thursday morning, making him the second death row inmate to be executed in the state this year and the ninth in the country. Rojem, 66, was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m., and he did not seek any last-minute stay.
Convicted murderer Richard Rojem Jr. executed Thursday morning
MCALESTER, Okla. — Days after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole board denied clemency, Richard Rojem Jr. was executed Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Rojem was convicted in 1984 of kidnapping, raping and killing 7-year-old Layla Dawn Cummings, his former stepdaughter. Court records said Cummings was...
Smithsonian exhibit coming to Weatherford
During Wednesday’s weekly Weatherford Rotary Club meeting, members of the club were able to learn about an exhibit coming to the Al Harris Library at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.The Rotary program was presented by Frederic Murray, Instructional Services Librarian at the Al Harris Library. Murray has been at SWOSU for 18 years and spoke about an exciting experience coming to the library…
Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Executed After 40 Years Of Incarceration
Oklahoma Death Row inmate Richard Rojem was executed on Thursday morning after spending 40 years behind bars for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of his 7-year-old stepdaughter. Rojem was convicted and sentenced to death after his 7-year-old stepdaughter Layla Dawn Cummings was murdered in Elk City in 1984. Now, 40...
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