Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn died of prostate cancer Saturday, almost 45 years after surviving another form of the disease - malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer. In January, 1995 I was Senior Sta...

Felony Cases Karl Benjamin Schenk: burglary in the first degree; aggravated assault and battery Tracy Lee Tindell: falsely personate another to create liability Misdemeanor Cases Kal-El Antwoine Beckh...

JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR Grammy Award-winning country music legend Joe Diffie performed in Eufaula on July 6, 2019, along with another famed musical artist, Gretchen Wilson. They were part of the Ju...

With this new way of life, all ages face significant challenges. Adults must work from home or seek unemployment assistance. Youth must do their coursework over the Internet and with computers and, fo...

The new coronavirus has not stopped Friendship Kitchen from feeding the community. But it has forced a change in delivery. The Kitchen, comprised of volunteers from several area churches, now serves t...

Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges announced the following changes at the McIntosh County Courthouse. In light of Supreme Court Administration Directive No. 2020-29 we are going to adopt the fol...

“The municipal governing body may enact and enforce such ordinances, rules and regulations as it deems necessary for the protection of the public health, not inconsistent with state law; and may estab...

With recent rainfall and warmer weather, fishing for crappie and white bass is heating up statewide. These species are beginning their annual spawning routines by moving into shallower water, making t...

In the early spring of 2018, Speaker Joe Byrd found a seat on the airport shuttle headed to Tulsa International Airport, and over the radio heard a familiar, yet surprising sound: the Cherokee Youth C...

“Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight,” reported the blind beggar whom Jesus had healed. The Pharisees were criti...

McIntosh County Treasurer Betty Whisenhunt has announced that all penalties and interest on the second-half payment of the 2019 ad valorem tax payments will be waived if remitted to the County Treasur...

A Bristow man and wife were killed in a twovehicle accident near Hitchita Sunday. Erwin and Janet Christensen, both 62, were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries. According to the Oklah...

At a special meeting of the Eufaula City Council Thursday, March 26, it was unanimously approved to amend the directives in a recent Declaration of Emergency by Mayor James Duty. A March 16 Declaratio...

A motorcyclist was critically injured in a single vehicle accident north of Eufaula Sunday evening. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, at about 7 p.m. William Barton, 27, of Checotah, was ridin...

Not too many years ago distance education was more or less a novelty. A nice idea, but folks didn’t think it would every replace the classroom, where students would learn by face-to-face interaction w...

STILLWATER – Health officials are warning rural communities to be just as cautious as more densely populated areas in their response to the spread of COVID-19. A lower rate of person-to-person transmi...

Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges sometimes thinks outside the box. When the state supreme court restricted the courthouse to employees, subject to some narrowly tailored exceptions, he moved c...

School Superintendent Jeanette Smith helps volunteers load a bus with food to be distributed to students at bus stops throughout the district. Smith said more than 400 meals were distributed by the bu...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from January business. The monies they reported this period represent sales...

With the recent scare of COVID-19 one local resident decided he wanted to do his part to help watch out for his fellow neighbor. That’s why Michael Pendley, along with the help of his wife, Nicole, st...