Freedom Celebration: The temperature outside was sizzling but that didn’t stop the fun and excitement of Freedom Celebration. The City of Checotah and the Chamber of Commerce worked hard on the city’s...

Two people died on Lake Eufaula during the long July 4 holiday weekend, including a four-year-old girl from Edmond who drowned Sunday morning at Sandy Bass Bay and a 64-year-old Poteau man who died in...

A report of a stolen vehicle led to a high speed chase and a dramatic confrontation between law enforcement and a suspect in the case. Following the chase and altercation, Allen William Terry, 32, of ...

A single vehicle accident caused damage to the front building of the Boom-a-rang Diner in Checotah on Wednesday, July 3. Police reported that an elderly couple, regulars at the diner, were coming in t...

The Eufaula Round-Up Club Rodeo will be July 25, 26, and 27 at 8 p.m. at the McIntosh County Fairgrounds and one lucky contestant will walk away with the title of Rodeo Queen on Saturday. Queen conte...

Christmas in July postponed Christmas in July with the Chamber of Commerce was postponed last week but will be going on July 13-20. Participants will have one week to collect elf parts. Then find Dela...

Mayor Daniel Tarkington is still taking care of city business and in his spare time tearing up the race track, a hobby he’s enjoyed since the age of 15. During the 2019 race season he has already comp...

Truman Dixon: Exceptional in the classroom and on the court Truman Dixon has been long noted as a successful basketball coach. He was exceptional in the classroom and on the court. I had the opportun...

The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma A&M Colleges recently approved a budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that keeps tuition flat for Connors State College. “We are grateful to the legislators...

Jamie Burke: all there traffic violations Heather Marie Bird: operate MV with license suspended; false information to officer Tory Anna Lee Crockett: petit larceny Shelby Tyanne Milo Bohuslavicky: pet...

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission will welcome southwestern Oklahoma bank executive Rick Holder, 60, of Creta in July. Gov. J. Kevin Stitt appointed Holder to an eight-year term from Distr...

Oklahoma’s pollinator community plays an important role across our state and the Wildlife Department is partnering with other Oklahomans to learn more about one pollinator, the American bumble bee. Bu...

Elevation above normal, water 78 and murky. Blue and channel catfish good on cut bait and shad below the dam, and around channels, main lake, and tailwater. Crappie good on minnows and tube jigs aroun...

Abernathy, Wesley Lane Allen, Edmond Monte Anderson, Gary Don Bahe, Mandy Gail Bear, Larissa Leann Boyles, Daron Ray Brown, James Burnett, Cody K. Carter, Kevin Dale Coffey, David Conner, Courtney Lav...

Farmer’s Market every Saturday The Checotah Farmer’s Market is located in Martin’s Meat Market parking lot on the Northwest corner of Main and East Gentry - every Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Authority ...

Felony Cases Demarco Latrel Patterson: rape, second degree Pruitt, Kevin Ray: domestic abuse (assault & battery); disrupt/prevent/interrupt emergency telephone call (MISD) Daniel Stacey Rosson: felony...

The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association’s 67th Annual Convention and Trade Show is scheduled for July 19 and 20. A key element of OCA Convention is the Cattlemen’s Educational Series, including four dive...

On July 11, 1656 – Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Col...

Dirt, or rather soil, falls into two interesting measurements of time in Blane Stacy’s life – eight hours and eight seconds. Rodeo and dirt – or as Stacy calls it, “Soil” – have each come to garner a ...