Checotah News

A 65-year-old woman from Kansas City, Mo., has died after a rollover crash on Interstate 35 about six miles north of Perry in Noble County.

At least one person was killed in an accident that forced the partial closure of a highway in northwest Oklahoma City.

The public is invited to participate in the upcoming Independence Day Tea Party, a family-friendly event to be held at Civitan Park from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Football coach Bob Stoops and basketball coach Jeff Capel have received new contract extensions featuring bonuses aimed at keeping them at Oklahoma long-term. Regents governing the university voted Wednesday to approve the new contracts that would keep both of the coaches in charge of the Sooners for seven more seasons.

Oklahoma will get only a tiny part of a $9.75 million settlement with the parent company of clothing retailer TJ Maxx that is related to the company's data security practices.

Area schools will be able to buy various types of new food service equipment with federal economic stimulus money distributed through the Oklahoma Department of Education.

The nations of the world have a legitimate reason to search vessels going into and coming out of North Korea.

TULSA, Okla. An upcoming Gilcrease Museum exhibition will provide unique insights into how British and Cherokee societies viewed each other by first-time observers during the pre-Revolutionary war era.

A Pawnee County judge has sentenced a Hallett man to 25 years in prison for the death of his wife.

A Tahlequah man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking $5,000 from the United Keetoowah Band while working for the tribal housing office.

A then-McIntosh County sheriff and undersheriff charged last month with taking confiscated cash from a motorist were part of a $30,000 FBI sting that originated with another traffic stop 19 months ago, federal documents show.

A new $5.3 million water treatment plant brings Checotah into compliance with state water regulations and increases the city's capacity for growth, officials said.

The Checotah Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the 43rd Annual Old Settlers' Day on Saturday.

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The Fort Gibson Corn Festival Committee will host the Miss and Junior Miss Fort Gibson Pageant at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Fort Gibson High School Auditorium.

Norman police are investigating after a man is struck and killed by a train near the University of Oklahoma campus.

Police in Beggs are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found in a bathtub of a nursing home.

A teenager who was convicted as a youthful offender in the death of a Checotah man must now go to prison.

Checotah FFA has fulfilled an exceptional year of well-rounded victories in a variety of FFA competitions.

An woman accused in a deadly hit-and-run accident in Oklahoma City has been charged with second-degree murder.