The Nowata County Commissioners met for a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday morning at the Nowata County Annex. The commissioners discussed ongoing improvements to the Nowata County Courthouse.

People living in Nowata County will have a new sheriff in two days. Voters elected Terry Sue Barnett to take over the job after investigators recently arrested Sheriff Kenny Freeman for embezzlement.

The Nowata County Sheriff has been arrested, News On 6 has confirmed. Sheriff Kenny Freeman is in the Washington County Jail after two OSBI agents arrested him on a single count of embezzlement. It’s ...

Nowata County is looking for ways to fix its problem-plagued jail. On Monday, county commissioners learned details of a 69-page report about safety and security concerns. This comes just days after a ...

There’s a new sheriff in Nowata county who’s hoping to clean up a department marred by controversy. In Tuesday election, Terry Sue Barnett won more than 80% of the vote over outgoing Sheriff Kenny ...

Nowata County Commissioners discuss courthouse maintenance at this week's meeting. On point of discussion was who was responsible for routine tasks such as ...

NOWATA COUNTY, Okla. — In a brief meeting on Wednesday morning, Nowata County commissioners accepted former Sheriff Terry Sue Barnett's resignation, and swore in Interim Sheriff Mirta Hallett. Hallett ...

NOWATA, Okla. — The Nowata County Sheriff’s Office says there is work underway at the jail amid its closure that set into motion a chain of controversy. Interim sheriff Mirta Hallett says the kitchen ...

NOWATA COUNTY, Okla. — Nowata County declared a State of Emergency after April's rain caused damage to dirt roads. Laurie Summers, director of Nowata County Emergency Management, says after last month ...

NOWATA — Nowata County is without a sheriff’s agency after Sheriff Terry Barnett resigned along with the undersheriff, the rest of the county’s deputies and most jail staff over safety issues related ...

Update (9:30 a.m. Wednesday): At a meeting early Wednesday, Nowata County commissioners accepted the resignation of Terry Sue Barnett and appointed Mirta Hallett as interim sheriff. She was a major at ...

NOWATA COUNTY, Okla. — A mystery surrounding six missing guns from a local sheriff's office may now be solved as one of their former deputies is accused of having some of them. Those guns disappeared ...