Okemah News

The Okemah school district relies heavily on the government to keep students from going hungry.

Dr. Claud Evans of Okemah has been named a 2009 Distinguished Agriculture Alumnus of Oklahoma State University's Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

Iowa singer/songwriter Chad Elliott's much anticipated album "Redemption Man," will be released in Cherokee, on Oct.

More than 310 National Junior Swine Association exhibitors from 12 states gathered at the Grady County Fairgrounds in Chickasha, Okla., for the 2009 NJSA Southwest Regional on Sept.

Several hours without a cell phone may seem like an eternity for college students, but that's what they had to endure Monday.

An Okemah woman who said she embezzled nearly $60,000 from a youth services agency to help with family expenses is trying to sell her house to repay the funds.

OKEMAH a ' Two teenagers have been arrested on first-degree murder complaints after a man was found dead in the eastern Oklahoma town of Okemah.

An ambulance driver who was at the heart of a traffic stop that led to a scuffle between a state trooper and a paramedic believes the officer should be reassigned elsewhere.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol disciplines a trooper caught on tape in the now infamous confrontation with a paramedic.

Hang your head out of the window for a second ... do you hear the rousing folk revival that is pouring out of Theatre Too? If not, then what are you waiting for? There is a radiant, good ole revival happening downstairs at Theatre Three with their current offering, Woody Guthrie's American Song .

A $250,000 monument symbolizing American Indians and their forced removal to Oklahoma will be erected at the Council Oak Tree in Tulsa next week.

A citizen of the open road since he was in his teens, balladeer Woody Guthrie sang and played "for his chips" in waterfront saloons, on skid rows, and in hobo jungles all over the U.S. He wrote over 1,000 songs, was heard by millions on recordings and in concert appearances and on radio programs.

A local school superintendent has been suspended with pay after his arrest for the alleged rape of a 5-year-old girl.

U.S. singer and songwriter, one of the legendary figures of American folk music.

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.