STILLWATER - The days of scooping peanut butter straight out of the jar with a spoon may be nearing an end. Researchers at the Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a bill by Senators Roger Thompson, R-Okeman, and Wayne Shaw, R-Grove, that would permit state agencies to enter into pay-for-s...

Ellen: What did the gorilla say when it dialed the wrong number? Ennis: “King Kong ring wrong!”

Feb. 18 – Feb. 25 T racie Sonnie Begaye: fail to stop at stop sign S amantha Wells: fail to pay taxes due to state/ expired tag J uvenile: furnishing tobacco to minors/possession by minor J uvenile: p...

To make these and other parts of our infrastructure work, we depend on engineers. Engineering is using imagination and technology to solve a problem. Some engineers figure out how to build things. Oth...

RENTIESVILLE – A representative of Hunter’s Home Living History Site, located in Park Hill, Cherokee County, will present a special program at Honey Springs at 1 p.m., March 2. Hunter’s Home is the on...

A little rainy weather didn’t slow down folks as they gathered for a barbeque feast at the Checotah Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet Saturday, Feb. 19 at the First Free Will Baptist Church Family ...

Book your tickets now for this Night of Comedy with Mike the Hypnotist, scheduled for Saturday, March 2 at Legacy On Main Street. This is a dinner-theater event, with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the show ...

BX to meet March 5 Chapter BX of PEO will meet at 4 p.m., Tuesday March 5 in the Sharpe House with Louise Slinkard serving as Hostess and Janie Underhill Co-Hostess. Karen Martin-Harding will be the A...

Friday, March 8, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the April 2 elections, McIntosh County Election Board Secretary Carole Hayes said announced. The fol...

Black History Month The black experience during the Great Migration became an important theme in the artistic move known first as the New Negro Movement and later as the Harlem Renaissance. The Great ...

Pat Smith Age: 80 Status: Widowed Number of children: 2 Grandchildren: 7 Careers: I worked as a sawyer with a skinner saw in a pile-wood mill. Hobbies: Reading my Bible Accomplishments: I raised two b...

Members of the Beta Sigma Phi Chapter XP3902 met Feb. 12 at the home of Gretchen Payne. President Shirley Davis opened the meeting with the following members repeating the opening ritual: Wilma-tine G...

The Jim Lucas Library hosted their Books Sandwiched In on Wednesday, February 13, with guest speaker, Ronald Young, who wrote the book “The Only Boy Who Danced.” Young, with a 33-year career in theate...

Most Americans have several different choices for communicating with one another: mobile phones, email, landline phones, the postal service. Today, computers, cell towers and satellites are essential ...

F.A.I.C. Volunteer Fire Department Breakfast Breakfast every third Saturday of the month serving scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, French toast, milk, juice an...

Mini Fact: As people use more energy, power plants have to make improvements to keep up. When you walk along a sidewalk, fill a bucket with water or turn on the TV, do you ever wonder how those thing...

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Performing at the Circle the State with Song Choir Festival (Region E), Friday, Jan. 25. Directed by Cryse Bodine. Accompanied by Andrea Denison. (Submitted photo)

“Clean” energy sources use natural forces, such as sunlight, wind and flowing water. For example, a tidal station uses a large dam called a barrage built across a river estuary. The tidewater is trapp...