OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. Avery Frix (R-Muskogee) on Friday hosted a bipartisan interim study examining Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) for those in Oklahoma’s seven pension plans. Several lawmake...

Checotah band members make District. Front row, left to right: Claralee Given, Ivy Ferguson, Jesse Kimble, Alyssa Quimby, Matigan Marion, Alexis Duval, Alazander Ball. Second row, left to right: Domin...

The 2019 Shop Checotah Christmas Give-Away program sponsored by the Checotah Chamber of Commerce is currently underway. For the past several years, Shop Checotah has been giving away thousands of doll...

Santa has lots of helpers at Christmas time in Checotah. Some of those helpers showed up at the Lions Club meeting on Nov. 12 to discuss the annual Angel Tree program that is now underway. This Decemb...

The Warrior’s Journey Honor Event and Dinner hosted at the First Assembly of God in Checotah had a great turnout on Thursday night, Nov. 14. Seventy-one veterans and veteran’s spouses were fed grilled...

The district attorney’s office has filed charges against ten parents for neglecting or refusing to compel their children to attend school. Eight of the defendants live in Checotah, two in Eufaula. Tho...

A single-vehicle accident three miles west of Hitchita Sunday claimed the life of a Beggs woman. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Sarah Owens, 33, was driving a 2010 Polaris Razor ATV south o...

In the Nov. 7 issue of the newspaper, a court report stated that Checotah resident Steven Ogle was cited for failure to restrain a dangerous dog. Ogle said the animal was a calf, not a dog. “I don’t h...

Local Flavor, the annual event that brings together area restaurants to give folks a sample of their menus, will be held Dec. 3 at the Xtreme Banquet Hall on Lakeshore Drive in Eufaula. The popular ev...

MUSKOGEE – Rafael Torres, 35, last week entered a guilty plea in federal court to the February 3 kidnapping of a wrecker driver in McIntosh County. The Oklahoma City resident could be punished by up t...

WASHINGTON––The fate of nearly 13,000 undocumented Oklahomans and 700,000 undocumented nationwide now rests with the six men and three women justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thousands of advocates ...

It mimics flu symptoms, but doctors say the Australia Norovirus is what is hitting Oklahomans hard in parts of the Midwest and keeping them out of work and school for up to a week. Noroviruses are a g...

WARNER, OK – Kamin Cooper, Checotah, Oklahoma is serving as a member of the Connors State College Shooting Sports Team in Warner, OK. Cooper is a Sophomore at CSC and pursuing an Associates of Science...

Orville Jones, 63, of Turpin, was injured in a single-vehicle accident Nov. 12 on Interstate 40 west of Checotah. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Jones apparently became sleepy while driving...

WASHINGTON - A veteran organization and the nation’s largest social media companies told a congressional hearing this week that imposters from foreign countries are using social media to exploit forme...

Anthony Shane Hammer, 36, is scheduled to stand trial in January on a charge of threatening the McIntosh County Courthouse. He will appear in court for a sounding docket at 9 a.m. on Jan. 24, at which...

"Heaven's Window" definitely opened up for 12-year-old Ava Rose Johnson on Nov. 2 at the Native American Music Awards in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Johnson won Best Independent Recording by a New Artist with...

Shai La Enni McGirt, 23, Eufaula, pled guilty last week to possession of a stolen vehicle and knowingly concealing stolen property. The charges are the result of an investigation by the McIntosh Count...

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. Since then, the li...

Checotah Public Schools invited all veterans and the community to the Checotah Veterans’ Day Breakfast and Assembly at the CHS Event Center at 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11. A hot, homemade breakfast was ...