A Muskogee man convicted of a misdemeanor in connection with the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol was ordered Friday to serve 20 intermittent days in confinement, two years of probation and pay restitution totaling $500.

BRUNSWICK, Ga.— After more than 11 hours of deliberation, jurors — 11 white and one Black —delivered guilty murder verdicts Wednesday on three white men accused of killing a Black man jogging in the street of their Brunswick, Georgia neighborhood.

When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, the boundaries it shared with Spain were not fully known. President Thomas Jefferson argued that the purchase also included the territory of Florida. But Spain disputed this fact.

Oklahoma Republican Congressman Markwayne Mullin, District 2, is in the spotlight again after reports surfaced that he tried traveling to Afghanistan for an unauthorized evacuation of five American citizens.

Federal workers will mark a national centennial when they gather for the state NARFE conference Aug. 26-27 at Muskogee Civic Center.

WASHINGTON — "This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance."

Assaults

This year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs celebrates 75 years of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

ATLANTA — Georgia has two Democrat senators and the Democratic Party has control of the U.S. Senate. 

U.S. Senator James Inhofe said Tuesday he was not going to join a group of senators who plan to object the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.

ATLANTA — After three counts of the same 5 million ballots, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Monday his office will recertify the results: President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia.

Marriage licenses

Muskogee residents Elexis Watson and Haylee Dawn Davidson have earned spots on the Rogers State University President's Honor Roll for Summer 2020.

Burglaries

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The only Native American man on federal death row was executed by lethal injection at 6:29 p.m. Wednesday at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Daniel Lewis Lee, convicted in the 1996 murder of three family members in Arkansas, was executed by lethal injection shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. It was the first federal execution in 17 years.

Jeffrey Gerritt, editor of the Palestine, Texas, Herald-Press, Monday won journalism’s most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

ATLANTA — Georgia’s coastal cities were quick to shutdown beaches to curb the spread of COVID-19. That was until Gov. Brian Kemp’s shelter-in-place order late last week reopened the beaches.

WASHINGTON — FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of Oklahoma to supplement the state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on Jan. 20, 2020, and continuing.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Former U.S. Senator has died at age 72.

The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted to reject pay increases for elected officials during a regular meeting Monday night.

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.