Closing out her competitive season for 2020, Stella Tracy, 11, of Eufaula, captured the top spot in the world for Girls Wakesurf at the Nautique Masters Championship held in Pine Mountain, Georgia on ...

On August 20,1494 – Columbus returned to Hispaniola. He had confirmed that Jamaica was an island and failed to find a mainland. 1619 – The 1st African slaves arrived to North America aboard a Dutch pr...

They called it the “Indian problem.” The white settlers wanted more land, and the tribes held rich acreages. Removing tribes from the Southeast was more than just an idea by the time Andrew Jackson w...

Once upon a time there lived a prince named Prince Sammy. This prince was very sad, for his mom the queen has fallen ill. This queen had a disease that was not curable with the tail of the Purple Geck...

After months of delay, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, world-renowned 3D illusion artist Tracy Lee Stum is scheduled to begin work Sept. 12 on a massive mural at 115 Selmon Road. Work on the ...

Oklahoma Blood Institute will be coming to Checotah and setting up a community blood drive at the Checotah Walmart on Friday, Aug. 21 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Every donor will receive a free COVID-19 an...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • April 20, 1906 San Francisco in Ruins An Earthquake, Followed by Fire, Has Devastated the City - Thousands Are Reported Dead San Francisco, April 19, 2 p.m. - Thirty ho...

The prestigious P.E.O. STAR Scholarship, for the 2019-2020 academic year was presented to Caton Skaggs, a senior at Eufaula High School. The scholarship was presented at the Eufaula Inspiration Garden...

Oklahoma’s natural world has long been the focus of our state’s talented photographers and is at the heart of the Wildlife Department’s Outdoor Oklahoma magazine’s Readers’ Photography Showcase, relea...

On August 6, 1787 – In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin debating the first complete draft of the proposed Constitution of the United States. 1819 – Norwich University, th...

Through numerous accounts, one thread of Kickapoo history remains: forced movement. It was something the tribe experienced so frequently, and in such a manner, that their origin cannot be connected t...

The impeachment trial for Matthew Komalty, chairman of the 14,000 member Kiowa Tribe, was halted Thursday after the Court of Indian Offenses ordered a delay. Komalty sought the delay because of a conc...

Back doors, secret shops, shady exchanges, cryptic messages on bulletin boards. This is how Belinda Davis remembers the underground weed sales in the Arkansas college town of Fayetteville where she gr...

1st place story winner in the library’s summer reading program, ages 6-9 years-old, Gael Vega.

STILLWATER – Oklahomans are being asked to go against their natural curiosity and greenthumb tendencies, setting aside mail deliveries of mystery seeds from China instead of planting them. The package...

Margaret Floyd became a Foster Grandparent in December of 1989, after an administrator at Stidham School who went to her church kept asking her to be a “granny.” He asked her enough times that she fin...

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State University agricultural economics researchers teamed with their peers at Purdue University to conduct a national survey of U.S. residents to determine beliefs and knowledge...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • March 30, 1906 Cold-Blood Murder Henry K. Thompson is shot down by J.D. Hartfield, at Bennett Henry K. Thompson, a prosperous farmer living seven miles east of Checotah...

Jade McPeak passed her state title of Oklahoma Junior Miss United States Agriculture this weekend to Ali Cole, former Junior Miss Muskogee County. McPeak now reigns as the National Junior Miss United ...

Elvis tribute artist Brent Giddens will perform a concert, An Echo of the King, on Aug. 8 at Legacy on Main Street, 224 N. Main, Eufaula. Concert tickets are $35. Doors open at 7 p.m. The concert begi...