The Coffeyville Police Department and Independence Police Department are seeking the public’s help in locating a person who is believed to have robbed two convenience stores on Monday and Tuesday.

Commander Mike Brown of the Coffeyville Police Department said an unknown male robbed the Bailey’s Corner Store at 1308 W. Eighth shortly after 7 p.m., Monday. A story employee told police that a male entered the store, brandished a silver handgun and demanded money. The employee complied with the suspect’s demands and the suspect then fled the area on foot towards the east.

On Tuesday night, the Casey’s General Store at Penn and Oak streets was robbed by an armed male who matches the same description as the Coffeyville robbery the night before.  However, the Casey’s store employee said the suspect was carrying a black or blue handgun.

Brown said the male suspect is between 5-foot-2 and 5-foot-4, weighs between 140 and 150 pounds, wears a black hoodie, black or gray pants, and black gloves. He also wore a red bandana around his face.

The Coffeyville and Independence police departments are asking that anyone with information regarding this robbery to contact local police at 620-252-6010, 620-252-6110 or the Coffeyville Police Department’s Crime Tip Line at 620-252-6133.

Southwire Company, a producer of wire and cable products, has announced an agreement to purchase certain assets of Rhode Island based American Insulated Wire Corporation (AIW), a subsidiary of Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc.

Southwire will acquire the AIW brands and two manufacturing facilities in Coffeyville and Douglas, Ga., both of which produce a variety of electrical wire and cable products for the commercial, industrial, retail and OEM markets.  The purchase is expected to close by the end of February.

“Acquiring AIW will allow us to diversify our product offering while continuing to strengthen our position in our core copper building wire business,” said Stuart Thorn, Southwire chief executive officer.

Leviton officials had no comment on the pending sale of the AIW brand.

Southwire is based in Carrollton, Ga.

BY ANDY TAYLOR
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A Caney resident who has been the subject of nuisance complaints took a swipe at city councilors Monday, saying he would contact the American Civil Liberties Union about the council’s practice of starting each meeting with a prayer.

Kenith Butts was present at Monday’s monthly council meeting as part of the council’s ongoing efforts to enforce nuisance ordinances at his property on North State Street. Butts was cited by the City of Caney on Christmas Day for harboring fowl, which is against city ordinances.
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Some Cherryvale city residents will see a slight increase in their monthly trash rates while others will see a decrease in their monthly trash bills as a result of a new contract signed between the Cherryvale City Council and Allied Waste on Monday. Allied Waste is the city’s trash provider.

City councilors voted unanimously to adopt a trash contract whereby trash rates will increase 45 cents per month for those city trash customers who do not use an Allied Waste poly-cart. Trash customers who do use the company’s poly-cart will see a $1.55 per month drop in their trash rates as a result of the new contract.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR

CANEY — Veronica Rosales has never taken an art lesson.

Never learned how to properly hold a sketch pad and color pencil.

Nor has she heard the words of advice from an art professional.

No need to.

She’s already making a name for herself.

The eighth grade student at Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School recently won first place in the nation in an art contest sponsored by Bikers Against Child Abuse and Izumicon, which an annual animae art festival in Oklahoma City, Okla.
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CHERRYVALE — “Stomp the ‘Streaks” is the theme for the 2010 Cherryvale High School Winter Sports Homecoming Week, which will be celebrated next week (Jan. 25-29).
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CANEY — Details about the unsolved 1970 murder of Osage County rancher E.C. Mullendore III may soon be revealed with the words of a Caney man lending a key to the crime.

The Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise revealed Tuesday that one of its columnists, Dale Lewis, who is known in the newspaper as the Original Buffalo Dale, had been subpoenaed last week to testify in a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma City as the grand jury investigates the murder of E.C. Mullendore III. Mullendore was beaten and shot to death at his vast ranch headquartered in northeastern Osage County, Okla., on Sept. 26, 1970. The ranch headquarters were less than seven miles from Caney while the ranch itself abutted many properties in the rural Caney area.
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