The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) invites members of the public to cast votes for outstanding individuals and organizations and honor their work for children and families across the sta...

Attorney General Mike Hunter and tribal leaders collaborating after the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision on July16 released an agreement in principle for proposed federal legislation that will clarify resp...

Tasneem Al-Michael is the son of parents he admires, the younger of two children, the proud owner of a cat named Moon and the only person in the Al-Michael family who is undocumented. When he came to...

Based on 500 entries, the winner of this year’s Whole Hawg Days Poker Run could win $20,000 - which will buy a lot of pork. In addition to the Poker Run, the 36th Annual Whole Hawg Days festival will ...

Walmart said Wednesday, July 15, that it will start requiring shoppers to wear face masks in all its stores, The requirement, which applies to more than 5,000 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, became eff...

Paradise Jackson, a 40-year-old Eufaula resident, faces a Sept. 1 preliminary hearing on multiple charges, among them allowing a convicted sex offender to stay at her home where a 10-year-old girl was...

With triple digit heat across the state, many Oklahomans are looking forward to fall and cooler weather. Although there will be several more weeks of intense heat, gardening enthusiasts can get a jump...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • Friday, Feb. 23, 1906 New “Katy” Surgeon Dr. J.H. McCulloch this week received notice of his appointment as Checotah surgeon for the M.K.&T. Rail Road. This position wa...

Did you know on average, an American woman is expected to live five years longer than an American man? Since the 1920s, men’s life expectancy has continued to drop compared to women. During Men’s Heal...

Oklahoma State Veterinarian, Dr. Rod Hall, has banned all rabbit exhibitions in the state until Sept. 24, 2020, to allow time to assess the scope and range of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) in the r...

This is how Carly Dismukes and her show heifer, Vanilla, get ready for Charolais Jr. Nationals in South Dakota this week.

Yesterday, the Oklahoma Career Technology Center and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry announced new educational programs to help curb the workforce shortage in the meat proces...

Connors State College has announced the names of students on the President’s and Vice President’s Spring Honor Rolls. Among these are several students from McIntosh County. To qualify for the Presiden...

The 2020 Census is still underway - more than half the households across America have responded - and more are responding every day. Online, phone and mailed self-responses will continue throughout th...

A 64-year-old Checotah man has been charged with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old child. Ronald Warren Prince faces one count of first-degree rape by instrumentation of a victim under 14 and with l...

Checotah Public Schools is preparing for the 2020- 2021 school year. Personnel are working on guidelines and protocols to provide solid educational services while also assuring the school can offer th...

Senior residents parade Staff photos by LaDonna Rhodes

Severe storms pushed by winds estimated at between 60 and 70 miles an hour swept through the county late Wednesday and early Thursday, May 6-7. In the midst of the high winds and rain, Club 69, on old...

Almost a dozen teenagers last week completed a 200-mile horseback ride from Skiatook, 20 miles north of Tulsa, to Antlers, passing through McIntosh County on the trek. The riders, who called their jou...

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