Last week the OKGOP State Committee body met for two separate State Committee Meetings, one of which was presented a resolution to remove our Chairman. We tabled it to be brought forth at a future tim...

Legacy on Main Street presents a dinner/theater production of On Fire: A Jerry Lee Lewis Tribute Saturday, July 27. The dinner and show are $75. Show alone is $35. Doors open at 6 p.m., dinner is at 6...

According to the National Weather Service, dangerous heat will persist in the days ahead, with the heat index climbing to the 105-115 degree range. On Thursday, July 4, it will be sunny and with a hig...

SALLISAW - Andrew Cox, 46, a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant with a storied 25year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, isn’t content with leaving his legacy in the past. Instead, he’s embarked on a new m...

On May 29, Bryon James Pollard, 53, and Charlene Hadie Wurster, 50, of Checotah, were charged with physically abusing Bryon’s 87-yearold father, James Pollard. According to police investigators, the e...

A single vehicle accident near Hanna claimed the life of an Okmulgee man Saturday. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patro...

Kimberly Dawn Reed, 39, pled guilty recently to rape by instrumentation of an exotic dancer at the 69 Cattle Company strip club as well as multiple other charges. The Hanna resident, on June 10, also ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - In a memorandum to Oklahoma school superintendents, State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced the implementation of foundational texts in curriculum. Effective immediately, all Oklah...

Will the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Territorial Committee give us a little at a time. We are not prepared to take it all at once. We know our people will object to so radical a change as is p...

AMANDA GRANTHAM BRANCH MANAGER The Eufaula Memorial Library is temporarily closed for repairs and mold removal, but we have programs and library services at the Eufaula Community Center. While we are ...

Honey Springs Battlefield will hold its annual memorial service honoring the 161st anniversary of the Battle of Honey Springs near Checotah on Saturday, July 13, at 10:30 a.m. The memorial service wil...

If you want to be wise enough to make good, Godly decisions, be sure you pursue the right kind of wisdom. James, brother of Jesus, writes about two kinds of wisdom: wordily and heavenly. One is demoni...

MUSKOGEE —Eastern Oklahoma Library System (EOLS) has announced the launch of a facilities initiative to rejuvenate aging buildings and library interiors across the six-county system. This initiative i...

EODD Area Agency on Aging will host a fraud prevention conferences for seniors 60 and older on July 12, 19 and 26. The conferences will be held at the EODD office at 1012 N. 38th St., Muskogee. Regist...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Humanities (OH) is accepting applications from Oklahoma organizations wishing to apply for funding up to $10,000. Grant applications are reviewed by the OH Board of Trustees i...

\As a Christian, I believe that Jesus was the most spectacularly unique person that has ever lived. Jesus came to Earth to save us. He did not come to save us from the political system. He did not com...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a statefunded Catholic charter school in a case testing the wall of separation between church and state. In a majority decision, the court blocked t...

Oklahoma executed Richard Rojem Jr. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday after nearly 40 years on death row. Before the execution, Rojem, 66, declined to give final words and sa...

LAWTON – Over the past several days, The GEO Group and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have worked together on a one-year contract to continue operating the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitati...

BOLEY – There’s nothing quite like building something by hand, and that’s what 32 inmates at the John Lilley Correctional Center in Boley did when they constructed a new central control building from ...