The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) has announced it will be posthumously awarding Judge Lisa Tipping Davis with the Kate Barnard Perseverance Award. The award recognizes a lifetime of ac...

OKLAHOMA CITY — On Thursday, April 18,  Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 868 into law after it was unanimously approved by the House and Senate.   Senate Bill 868 provides for the Oklahoma Departme...

Dates set for CHS Alumni Checotah High School Alumni  mark your calendars  for June 28-29 for the CHS Alumni gathering. For more information contact: Imogene Duvall 918-473-2781 Horseshoe competition ...

Eufaula Masonic Lodge #1 presented a $1,500 check recently to Under One Roof. The money represents matching funds for the non-profit organization, which raised $1,624 at a benefit breakfast. “The $1,6...

Toni Lambert will perform a Barbra Streisand Tribute Show on Saturday, May 4. This is a dinner concert present by Legacy on Main Street. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., the concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Pur...

Lake Eufaula State Park’s annual Easter Egg Hunt attracted hundreds of adults and their children to the Deep Fork Campground Center Field Saturday. (Staff photo)

STILLWATER — Medical researchers debate the precise mechanism, but the association between cold weather and intensified joint pain is well known to people with degenerative joint disease, or osteoarth...

Country music star Gretchen Wilson will headline a July 4 weekend concert at the Xtreme RV Resorts amphitheater, Eufaula Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Pam Rossi announced Thursday. Joini...

Do you know a teen who could benefit from spending a week hiking and canoeing, while learning about natural resources in a beautiful forest? Oklahoma Forestry Services invites girls and boys between t...

OKLAHOMA CITY — On Friday, May 3, dozens of young people in Oklahoma will go on strike from school to protest the government’s failure to take action to stop climate change. They will join hundreds of...

We pray you had a safe, great Easter.   We met evening Food and Fellowship at 5:45 - 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.   Every third Wednesday is a Community Food Giveaway.   We assembled for classes,...

STILLWATER - Thanks to its generous donors, Oklahoma State University’s Center for Veterinary Health Sciences recently awarded $542,270 in scholarships to 158 different veterinary students. Among thos...

WILBURTON – Eastern Oklahoma State College alumnus and McAlester Chief of Police Gary Wan-sick will deliver the keynote address for the 2019 Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. in the C.C...

Floyd Joseph Ball Jr. entered a blind plea in February to the rape and kidnapping last year of his former girlfriend. A blind plea is a guilty plea made by a criminal defendant when they have not ente...

State Sen. Roger Thompson has been appointed to the Budgets and Revenue Committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).   Thompson, who chairs the Oklahoma State Senate’s Appropria...

The Friends of Eufaula Memorial Library is an inquisitive group. During the organization’s April meeting last week, members had lots of questions for City Manager Jacob Foos. In opening remarks, Foos ...

I had the honor to escort my father, retired Army Master Sgt. Harold Haltom, on an Oklahoma Warriors Honor Flight (OWHF) to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, April 16. He is my father, and my hero. The two-...

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

MUSKOGEE – The former congressional candidate charged with three counts of sexual abuse of children was bound over for trial following a preliminary hearing on April 16. Daniel Ethan Edmonds, 35, Poru...