Is chocolate one of your top treats? If so, you are not alone. The average American eats about 12 pounds each year. This adds up to more than 3 billion pounds! People buy about 48 million pounds of ch...

The filing period for the April 2 city elections has closed. Former Public Works Director Todd Warren and Eufaula C.P.A. Nancy Marie Mouser have thrown their hats into the political ring, vying for a ...

Sen. Roger Thompson and Rep. Chris Kannady have been named to the Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse, replacing two legislative members who did not run for re-election last year. Oklahoma Attorney Ge...

1800 – USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to cross the equator. 1832 – 250 Marines defeated Malay pirates in Sumatra, Indonesia. 1861 – The Choctaw Nation declares its allegiance to the Confeder...

New hours for God’s Helping Hands and the Clothes Closet God’s Helping Hands and the Clothes Closet have moved to their new location at 600 Border St. in Eufaula. The days and hours of operation are: ...

We met For Wednesday Food and Fellowship at 5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. on January 30, 2019.   Every third Wednesday is a Community Food giveaway. We gathered for Children’s, Teens, and Worship at 6:30 p.m....

STILLWATER – When the weather is cold and limiting outdoor activities, it is a good time to tackle some house cleaning projects you may have been putting on the back burner. Cleaning out your pantry i...

How does one tell a “false prophet” today? Here’s the problem: they come from among Christians (or claim to be). 2 Peter 2:1-3 guides us: “But there were false prophets among the people (Deut. 13:1-5)...

RENTIESVILLE – Legacy Keepers R Us founders ShIronbutterfly Ray and Oscar Ray Sr. will present "Where the Legends Went” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center ...

The rejection of obedience to God today is portrayed often in the scriptures of old. As the word of Solomon the wise, “There is no new thing under the sun,” Ecclesiastes 19. The rejection of obedience...

Black History Month seminar set A seminar about Black History Month will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 10 miles west of Checotah. Rev. Samuel Cunningham, past...

RENTIESVILLE - More than 60 Civil War buffs attended a recent presentation at Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center by Prof. Tom Wing. Wing conducted a program based upon the Civil War diary of...

TULSA – Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU CHS) announced the establishment of multiple scholarship funds totaling $475,000. The funds come from the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw N...

Our theme for 2019 is RELATABLE: Connecting With God. Our current series is Engaging the Lost. Sunday’s sermon was The Hopeless from Psalm 22:1-5. We are called to engage the lost. Our call is to turn...

The Steve Kirby Bean Dinner and Auction was a huge success Saturday, raising over $30,000 for this former Checotah police sergeant who was critically injured in a car crash on Thanksgiving Day, 2018. ...

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, February 12, for the following 2019 Board of Education Primary Elections: • Checotah Public Schools: Member-Board of Education Office No. 4 • Warner Public Schools...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The number of students in public schools in Oklahoma continues to rise steadily, as indicated by the newest enrollment numbers released by the Oklahoma State Department of Education (O...

Remember when Jesus returned to his hometown of Nazareth and was teaching in the synagogue, and his old friends and neighbors became so upset when he started talking about God showing favor towards th...

STILLWATER — A statue depicting Nancy Randolph Davis, the first African-American student to attend Oklahoma A&M College, was dedicated in a ceremony Thursday when her lifesize sculpture was unveiled o...

To say the financial markets were a bit bumpy in 2018 may be an understatement. The S&P 500 was down 6.2 percent for the year, the first time this key index fell since 2008, during the financial crisi...