An unnamed female deer poacher from McIntosh County went online to perhaps find a date with a man, but instead landed a date with justice. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Warden Cannon H...

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy’s five-year contract has been extended through the 2023 season. OSU announced that his annual $125,000 raise would take his salary up to $5.125 million in the 2019 seas...

OKLAHOMA CITY - NewView Oklahoma believes that every child deserves to have a summer camp experience, and that’s why OWL Camp, or Oklahomans Without Limits, was created in 2000 for children who are bl...

Checotah High School graduate Valerie Mitchell has joined the Utica Park Clinic Gastroenterology group, which has offices in Claremore and Tulsa. Mitchell is an advance practice register nurse (APRN) ...

Felony Cases J ason Grant Dye: falsely personate another to create liability; possession of firearm after former felony conviction; knowingly concealing stolen property; possession of CDS; unlawful po...

RENTIESVILLE — Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center announceS a special presentation, “The Diary of a Union Soldier from Kansas,” to be held at the battlefield’s Visitor Center at 1 p.m. on Sa...

The Temptations - Motown Legends Tribute will perform in concert Saturday, Feb. 2 at Legacy on Main Street, 224 n. Main St. For those who would like to eat before the show, there will be a dinner at 6...

Checotah American Legion Post 21 Starting in January, the Checotah American Legion Post 21 will meet at 6 p.m. the first Monday of the month at the Senior Citizen’s Community Center. Fast Lanes, senio...

It’s been almost two months since that horrific night, a night that still seems dark for the Kirby family. However, they have not lost the light of hope at the end of the tunnel, and they are all stil...

It was incorrectly reported in the Dec. 20, 2018 issue of the McIntosh County Democrat that Charles Wayne Rea was charged with petit larceny. The item appeared in the Checotah Police Report that appea...

Chapter BX of PEO meeting Chapter BX of PEO will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 in the home of Sally Meador with Ina Bittle serving as co-hostess. Casey Bone will give the program “Star Light, Star B...

From time to time, law enforcement agencies benefit financially from enforcing law enforcement, usually from drug-related crimes. Property seized from those arrested is held until the agencies can con...

Just over ten years ago, two little girls went for an afternoon walk down a dirt road in a small town in Oklahoma and never made it back home. The grandfather of one of the girls was the first person ...

A 27-year-old Checotah man was injured in a two-vehicle accident west of Checotah on Jan. 8. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Jacob Mar was northbound on Business U.S. 69 two miles west of Che...

For those who have the flu, it may not be any consolation but the illness is not has severe this season as last. Between Sept. 1, 2018, and Jan. 8, 2019, the State Department of Health reported 13 dea...

AARP Oklahoma is accepting nominations for the 11th annual AARP Oklahoma Indian Elder Honors to celebrate 50 Native American elders who have positively impacted their community, family, tribe and nati...

Claude Wymon Voigt Aug. 18, 1930 - Jan. 5, 2019

WELLSTON – District 32 Rep. Kevin Wallace has created a hunter’s paradise between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. trophy white-tailed deer freely roam among the oak-filled timber on a combined 650 acres. Wal...

Mt. Olive Star Baptist Church will celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with two events – one at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20 and the other at 8:30 a.m., Monday, Jan. 21. This year, January...

FORT GIBSON — Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) Executive Director Dr. Bob Blackburn announced that Omar Reed has been named director of Fort Gibson National Historic Landmark. Reed joined the staff a...