Checotah News

A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board on a fatal Oklahoma plane crash says witnesses heard the aircraft's engine "rev up" before it crashed.

The first country singer to win American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, Oklahoma, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 42-year-old Checotah man has been killed when the home-built aircraft he was piloting crashed.

A Checotah businessman was killed Saturday when the airplane he was flying crashed across U.S. 266 from his house west of town.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports that Douglas Hyer, 42, of Checotah died when his small plane took a nose dive in a rural area outside Checotah Saturday.

The first country singer to win American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, Oklahoma, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three.

Sarina N. Butcher, 19, of Checotah, Oklahoma, was killed along with another soldier on November 1, 2011 in Laja Ahmad Khel, Paktya province, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by an improvised explosive device.

The first country singer to win American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, Oklahoma, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three.

Sixteen-time Grammy Award winner Tony Bennett will perform later this fall in Tulsa.

The following open letter was written by Maj. Gen. Myles L. Deering to all Oklahomans after the recent return of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and 146th Air Support Operations Squadron from Afghanistan.

If the new city budget is approved, The City of Tulsa will greatly increase the cutting of municipal property.

The first country singer to win American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, Oklahoma, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three.