WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election-year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.
NORMAN, OKLA. — A New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company caused an Oklahoma opioid crisis that led to thousands of deaths, and must pay $572.1 million to fix it, a Cleveland County, Oklahoma, district judge ruled Monday.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted to reject pay increases for elected officials during a regular meeting Monday night.
WASHINGTON – Two members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation saw floor action this week on their legislation, and House members cast a significant vote in the on-going battle between Democrats and President Trump over congressional oversight into the Russia Investigation.
Lawyers who represent a man trying to win his freedom after being convicted of the 1984 murder of an Ada woman appear to have won a partial victory on Tuesday in their quest for sanctions against those responsible for withholding potentially exculpatory evidence.
TAHLEQUAH – For the sixth consecutive year, Cherokee Days is returning to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — Oklahoma’s delegation was split on Thursday’s votes for a $333 billion spending package that includes funding for a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border and would avoid another government shutdown.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Muskogee Little Theatre organizers worked hard to ensure that the Tulsa Ballet would travel to bring the magic of “Peter and the Wolf” to Muskogee schoolchildren during the day and power of dance to the community in the evening.
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BOSTON — GasBuddy, the only company connecting drivers with their Perfect Pit Stop, predicts that 2019 will feature a yearly national average of $2.70 per gallon, representing a 3 cent drop versus 2018, but warns that the national average could surge to over $3 per gallon as soon as May.
A partial government shutdown looms over the nation after President Donald Trump refused to sign a spending bill Thursday.
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BOSTON — It's no surprise that the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year. With the extra errands and traveling the holidays call for, a lot of that jingle-bell stress is transferred to the roads by the way consumers drive. In fact, GasBuddy, the only smartphone app connecting…
Muskogee native Sharon Lietzow holds dear her memories of President George Herbert Walker Bush.
A U.S. Postal Service employee said a teleconference is scheduled Monday afternoon to discuss how an executive order issued by President Trump to close the government on Wednesday will affect mail deliveries that day.
HOUSTON (AP) — He was the man who sought a "kinder, and gentler nation," and the one who sternly invited Americans to read his lips — he would not raise taxes. He was the popular leader of a mighty coalition that dislodged Iraq from Kuwait, and was turned out of the presidency after a single…
EUFAULA — A New Mexico man was charged with sodomy and lewd molestation in connection with the abduction of a 13-year-old North Carolina girl, according to court documents.
Chris Stapleton won the most awards and Carrie Underwood won female vocalist of the year at the 2018 Country Music Awards on Wednesday night.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – An ex-National Security Agency contractor sentenced to five years and three months in prison for leaking classified information will ask President Donald Trump to pardon her in light of his comments that her punishment was unfair.
After 17 people were killed when a duck boat sank on Table Rock Lake, lawmakers and experts are pledging to examine whether the amphibious vehicles should continue to be used commercially.
Seventeen people are dead after a severe thunderstorm capsized a duck boat in Branson, Mo., Thursday night.
BRANSON, Mo. -- When Delvia Dunning saw Charlana Bryant in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks, she could tell she was close to a breakdown.
The driver of the Ride the Ducks boat that capsized on Table Rock Lake on Thursday night was struggling to get the vessel to safety as he fought high winds and harsh waters, a woman who says she witnessed the event said Friday.
BRANSON, Mo. — Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said Friday morning that the bodies of the four missing people from Thursday night’s duck boat accident on Table Rock Lake have been recovered raising the death toll to 17 and accounting for all of the 31 passengers who were aboard.
Authorities say divers have found two more bodies after a duck boat carrying tourists capsized in southwest Missouri, bringing the death toll to 13.
A dozen Russian intelligence officers have been charged with conspiring to hack Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new indictment in the probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
ATLANTA — NFL owners approved a new policy Thursday aimed at addressing the firestorm over national anthem protests, permitting players to stay in the locker room during the "The Star-Spangled Banner" but requiring them to stand if they come to the field.
SANTA FE, Texas — The Latest on a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas (all times local):
At least eight people were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a high school in Southeast Texas, the latest eruption of gun violence to terrorize students and teachers alike.
“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states.
The spate of mass shootings leading up to and including the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day, left David Hadley of Crawfordsville, Indiana, “shocked and saddened” and wondering what he could do.
Lee Henderson closes his eyes and pictures Mary Turner holding her swollen belly and breathing heavily as she runs from the lynch mob.
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The former speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives and three other legislators paid a former female staffer $66,000 and her lawyers $44,000 to keep sexual harassment complaints against them hush-hush.
During a mid-March road trip through central Florida, we stopped in Lakeland for a visit to Florida Southern College.
Forrest Wolfe, 29, truck driver, died October 16 in Denison, Texas. A private memorial will be held at a later date. Bradley Funeral and Cremation Service.
Ruth E. Ray, 85, retired Elementary Teacher for Haskell Schools, left us Sunday,. Funeral Mass Monday, 10 AM, St. Joseph Catholic Church. Visitation Sunday, 1 to 5 PM, Keith D. Biglow Funeral Directors, Inc.-Muskogee. biglowfunerals.com
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