Okemah News

Chad Elliott, formerly of Spencer, will travel to the Woody Guthrie Festival in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Okla., for a performance on July 9. Elliott was named top songwriter in a contest sponsored by the festival.

The life and legacy of American music legend Woody Guthrie will be celebrated July 8-12 at the 12th annual Woody Guthrie Festival.

"Research shows that two of the most influential musicians of the Depression era - or quite possibly ever - never met.

William Whitaker visits the site where his daughter, Skyla Jade Whitaker, 11, and her friend Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, were killed on June 8, 2008.

The Okemah Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and Grape Ranch winery will host a Jazz and Blues Festival 2 to 10 p.m. today at Grape Ranch winery, six miles south of I-40, exit 221, on Highway 27 and one mile west in Okemah.

" A press conference Monday will not delve into the DNA evidence in the shooting deaths of two girls last summer.

GARAGE SALE, hosted by Green Country Blue Star Mothers Chapter 12, 8 a.m. until noon Friday and Saturday, Green Country Blue Star Mothers Chapter 12 building , 24th Street and Peak Boulevard.

State investigators are planning to discuss publicly the unsolved murders of two young girls who were found shot to death nearly a year ago along a dirt road in rural Okfuskee County.

A weekend scuffle between state troopers and paramedics who were taking a woman to the hospital has been turned over to the Highway Patrol's internal affairs unit and a county prosecutor.

Kevin Younger received the Outstanding Student Teacher of the Year award from East Central University in Ada.

In the days before air conditioning, handheld fans were a common sight. Politicians handed red, white and blue ones out at political rallies.

A tribal judge of the Muscogee Nation has ruled that the tribe's central government, not individual chartered Indian communities, should control casino funds from the communities with gaming operations.

Woodward will once again play a role in the annual Lt. Governor's Turkey Hunt. Woodward was of the original communities when the turkey hunt, designed to spur economic development opportunities in the state, was started under Lt.Gov. Robert Kerr 23 years ago.

My wife Cindy and I were fortunate to have been given some of the tickets to see "Woody Sez" at the Lyric at the Plaza theater in OKC.

After 40 years of pastoring churches, the United Pentecostal Church International awarded the Rev.

TableMAX Gaming, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TableMAX Corporation , a developer of electronic table games, has installed two TableMAX Systems at Creek Nation Casino Okemah in Okemah, Okla.

Once again, Oklahoma City will be in the spotlight as it welcomes the American premiere of Woody Sez: the Words, Music and Spirit of Woody Guthrie .

Mattie Caldwell may not remember how old she is, but the U.S. government never forgets.

You can check out pictures by clicking the slideshow link to the right. 12:54 - Crews from Holdenville, Wetumka, Okemah, and Henryetta are on the scene.

A woman who went missing for more than a month last year has been accused of hiring a co-worker to kill her husband.