CLPS meet at the Katy Depot The Checotah Landmark Preservation Society have their general meetings the second Thursday of each month at the Katy Depot, located at the corner Paul Carr Drive and Emmy’s...

Muskogee - Every child in foster care deserves someone in their corner. This summer, you can be that someone. CASA for Children is offering a new volunteer training class beginning this July. The trai...

The theme of the May meeting was, appropriately, May flowers. Our hostesses Jan Kreiger, Karen Willoby and Janis Davis did a great job! The door prizes were lovely, freshly potted flowering plants. Th...

All-American is back and better than ever! Show your patriotic spirit by giving blood at one of Our Blood Institute’s All-American Blood Drives happening across the state June 13 through July 21. Whet...

The superintendent of the state’s largest online charter school stepped down this week amid a massive downs i z i ng. Another top administrator resigned in mid-April. And the Statewide Charter School ...

WASHINGTON— Kalyn Free — a Native American attorney and longtime Oklahoma Democrat — is running again for DNC vice chair, hoping to reshape the party’s focus on rural and Indigenous communities follow...

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Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reached the south and Texas through General Gordon Granger. 1865 – Eman...

Rank and organization: Commander, U.S. Navy, Air Group 15. Place and date: First and second battles of the Philippine Sea, 19 June 1944. Entered service at: Florida. Born: 16 January 1 910, Bessemer, ...

Event held Sunday afternoon, June 15, at the Honey Creek Battlefield site.

The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention June 6-7, at the Grand Casino Hotel and Resort in Shawnee. The top award a newspaper can r...

Managing Editor Jerry Fink of The Eufaula Indian Journal and the McIntosh County Democrat was inducted into the Oklahoma Press Association Half Century Club on Saturday, June 7 at the Grand in Shawnee...

Two Muskogee men charged with killing a Eufaula resident were ordered to appear at a preliminary hearing in district court at 10 a.m., Thursday, July 3. Suspects Kyren Omari Boulware, 19, and Michael ...

Two people from Marshall, Texas were killed, and four others were injured in a harrowing four-vehicle pileup on U.S. 69 half a mile south of the Muskogee City Limits at about 2:20 p.m. on Monday, June...

Rep. Tim Turner, R-Kinta, announced some good news and some bad news at the Monday morning Monthly County Commissioner meeting. First, the bad news, at least for those who oppose wind turbines in the ...

Don’t miss Old Settlers Day this Saturday. This family tradition in Checotah is one of old friends, new friends and lots of good ol’ fashion family fun. Always the second Saturday in June, the town ho...

Bring us your tattered and weathered flag. Observe as our local Boys Scouts and DAV members honorably retire it. Starting at 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Free Cookout, Games and Raffle At Veterans Park, 114 N Broa...

CLEARVIEW - The ending of slavery in the United States, celebrated annually on or around June 19, will be celebrated on Saturday June 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The celebration will take place at th...

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation recently honored the late veteran William “Bill” Antrum Fox Jr. by naming a bridge after him. The William A. Fox Jr. Memorial Bridge is on SH 9 East at Nine M...