BREAKING NEWS
News
The Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign has been a Christmas tradition since 1891, when Captain Joseph McFee resolved to provide a free Christmas dinner to the poor of San Francisco.
Sports
The Lincoln Christian Bulldogs dominated the Checotah Wildcats (8-2) in a 56-21 Class 3A-3 District title game Friday night at Ogle Field in Checotah.
By Rodney Haltom
Hundreds remembered Roland High School football coach Waymon Potts during services at the high school gym on Monday.
Potts, 50, apparently died of a heart attack, on Nov.
By Chris Day
18-year-old Guner Womack headed out for his deer stand last week with his bow in hand, he had no idea he’d leave with a buck that could go down in the record books.
Commentary
It’s it funny that sometimes we take something temporary (like a job or a relationship) and then suddenly it turns into 10 years of actually keeping you from where you should have been.
There are almost 8,000 children in Oklahoma’s foster care system. Most of those are kids under 12 years old, and many of them also have brothers and sisters in the system.
By Joe Dorman, Ceo
The men who gathered in that blistering humid room in Philadelphia in 1787 to create our governing document did not represent a cross section of the American population.
Lifestyle
Eighth-grade middle school students participated in a lesson created by the K20 group of the University of Oklahoma.
Pre K winners of the PAWS awards were from left to right: Kayzlea Moham, Jase Wilks, Jonah Coleman and Kaitlyn Saenz.
On May 24, 2019, the staff of Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center was forced to evacuate the only prehistoric American Indian archaeological site open to the public in Oklahoma due to historic flood
Obituaries
Abner Bogner Stubbs passed away on Friday, October 25, 2019 in New Braunfels, Texas. He was born in Corsicana, Texas on March 2, 1925 to Loyd and Pauline Stubbs.
Robert “Bob” Lee Wright, lifelong Checotah resident, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 in Checotah at the age of 87.
Checotah - Coy Ray Moore, 86, former Checotah resident, died Tuesday, October 15, 2019 in Redondo Beach, California. Checotah – Ron Hurst, 72, died Wednesday, October 16, 2019 in Eufaula.
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