A 59-year-old Oklahoma City woman drowned on Lake Eufaula Friday afternoon, July 25. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Michele Watson stopped her 2025 Crest Tritoon in the middle of the lake n...

What: City Hall Open House When: Friday, Aug. 8, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Where: Eufaula City Hall, 64 Memorial Dr. Who: Open to the public – visit with Chief Carmack, City Manager Foos, and ODOT staff. Why: L...

On Sept. 15, 2021, K9 officer Tito tragically died from the heat after being accidentally locked in a police vehicle during training on a hot sum- mer day. While the handler was out of the car, he lef...

In November 2023, No. 9 Marina CEO Barry Hadlock donated an almost-new pontoon boat to the Eufaula to be used as a rescue boat. The boat had been damaged in a tornado that blew through Norman and hit ...

The start of the 2025-26 school year is two weeks away, on Thursday, Aug. 14, but there is plenty to keep students, parents and school personnel busy between now and then. The important dates posted b...

Help Lake Dog support our local K9 officers who have limited funds to pay for vet bills, food and tactical gear. We appreciate the services provided by these officers. Please join Lake Dog in supporti...

The Ironhead Parent Teach Organization will host its annual Back-to-School Bash Tuesday, Aug. 12 at the Eufaula Middle School gym from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more information contact PRO president...

Two opportunities to attend a public hearing to discuss issues, challenges and opportunities facing seniors aged 60-plus over the next four years will be held in August. The first meeting will be held...

Exciting things happening at Plumb Theatre! One of our favorite piano players, Bobbye Jones, from the Webbers Falls area, will be filling in for Cookie Eller, the first two weekends in August. Cookie ...

It wasn’t by chance that Landon and Lexi Donahue named their firstborn Elaina Grace, for it has been by the grace of God that their daughter’s battle with Rett Syndrome has brought awareness to an are...

A competency hearing for Louis Carl Guenther, 68, of Checotah has been set for 9 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27. Guenther is accused of beating and stabbing to death his sister, blues musician Selby Minner,...

MUSKOGEE – Joshua Lee Bolin, 26, of Sallisaw, entered a guilty plea to a Superseding Indictment of one count of Receipt of Certain Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, punishable by ...

If you would like to list your meeting or event in the Community Calendar, please email all the information to jerry@cookson.news, call the Indian Journal at 918-689-2191 or drop the information off a...

As public media stations turn to newsletters, social media and other platforms to urge viewer donations in response to CPB funding cuts, one question remains: What does the future hold for public medi...

Pre-preliminary conferences are set for two Haskell County men, one charged with murdering his mother and sister-in-law, the other charged with destroying evidence in the case and attempted kidnapping...

STAFF PHOTOS } SHAUNA BELYEU Not pictured was Doug Merchant who placed third and took home a check for $3,821.

On July 31, 1777 – The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army. 1813 – Marines landed at York, Lake Ontario, with soldiers to bur...

Brooks-McGuffin, Chase Alexander: attempted burglary in the first degree; malicious injury to property under $1,000 Cox, Ryan Yates Garrison: aggravated trafficking in illegal drugs; posses firearm du...

Thousands of marijuana plants and 1,183 pounds of processed marijuana were confiscated Monday during a raid conducted by an Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics’ Marijuana Enforcement Team three miles south o...

Recently, Craig Morgan — better known as Cat Daddy — walked into York Manor Nursing Home in Muskogee not like a guest, but like someone coming home. Guitar slung over his shoulder, smile wide, and hea...