Boynton News

Nov. 8--Having a police department has been a struggle for at least two Muskogee County towns over the last several months.

After two weeks of low water or no water pressure, Boynton residents were seeing a return to normal Thursday.

Boynton did not necessarily follow the Oklahoma Town Meeting Act in holding a special election Tuesday, but a local attorney believes what they did is better than what the act requires.

The town of Boynton has been turning off its water service at night since last Friday while officials try to determine what's causing the lack of pressure.

The former clerk and treasurer in Boynton has pleaded guilty to two counts of violating Oklahoma's Open Records Act for refusing to let town trustees see water department records.

OK, the number of local officials being charged with crimes is reaching the ridiculous.

NEWS * Muskogee man is in the new edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Embezzlement charges were filed Friday against mayors and trustees of two area towns.

A Muskogee County jury deliberated less than two hours Monday before returning a guilty verdict against Clinton Riley Potts, 34, in the Dec.

Five Muskogee area residents were named to Oklahoma Baptist University's academic honor rolls for the spring 2009 semester.

A state expert testified Thursday he could not link a gun to the 2004 killing of a Boynton man.

MUSKOGEE a ' A McIntosh County woman denied that she was having an affair and living with the man her former boyfriend is accused of killing more than four years ago.

Clinton Riley Potts: Court documents allege that he paid Jerry Chad Pippin $1,500 to kill Greg Clark, whose bloody body was found more than four years ago in his yard in Boynton.

Testimony is expected to begin today in the first-degree murder trial of Clinton Riley Potts, 34, of Hitchita.

It could be the bargain of all bargains. The State of Oklahoma has a bridge it wants to give away.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is looking for a new home for the outdated Cloud Creek Bridge near Boynton in western Muskogee County.

Oklahoma transportation officials are looking for a new home for a historic 98-year-old bridge in Muskogee County.

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McAlester Regional Health Center has an immediate full time opening for a RN-Quality Services Coordinator.

A letter was being written Monday to the state auditor requesting an investigative audit of the town of Webbers Falls.