A traffic fatality three miles east of Longtown in Pittsburg County is being investigated by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at about 5 a.m. Sunday, Dec.l, on SH 9 and County Line r...

A plaque officially designating McIntosh County as a Purple Heart County will be presented to the county commissioners at a special meeting to be held at the courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. M...

Daddy Daughter/ Mommy & Me Blizzard Ball Dec. 6 from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Checotah Middle School Old Gym, 1st and Jefferson Hosted by the Checotah Color Guard and Band Christmas Open House at Freedom House...

The Heartland Heritage Museum & Gallery came alive during the Checotah Art Guilds 4th Annual Holiday Art & Craft Holiday Show & Sale on Saturday, Nov. 23. For over five hours artists and locals got to...

Olivia Sloate, a native of Tahlequah, is the most recent recipient of the Oklahoma P.E.O. Continuing Education Grant. The maximum grant was awarded to her as she pursues a Bachelor of Science in nursi...

(left) Tim Rice and his crew had a good turnout for their 2nd Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov. 25. Rice started this tradition in honor of his late mother, Beverly Ann Barrow, who also gav...

An effort to create a county planning and zoning committee to combat companies who have begun taking steps to build wind farms in McIntosh County hit a speed bump at Monday’s commissioner’s meeting. T...

MUSKOGEE – Jerry Brandon Pearce, 55, of Indianola, has entered a guilty plea to one count of possessing an unregistered explosive device, The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District o...

A candlelight vigil for Peggy McGuire was held by her family this past Saturday near the four-way stop across the street from Stidham Public School. Peggy’s family is still searching for answers to wh...

114 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, January 5, 1911 WHAT DOES IT MEAN? City Attorney John Vaughn is just now busy speculating whether the two sticks of dynamite found in his yard Monday m...

November’s meeting on the 21st was a smashing success with over 120 people present, lots of chili was eaten and the McIntosh GOP successfully launched the Freedom Brigades which is a non-partisan citi...

FORT GIBSON — The Christmas candlelight tours at Fort Gibson Historic Site will take place on Saturday, Dec. 14, starting at 6 p.m. Guests will be led by candlelight through scenes of 19th-century lif...

November 2024 will enter Oklahoma’s vast and storied weather lore as one of the most extreme months in state history, shattering records for both the highest statewide average rainfall and the most to...

The Checotah Middle School canned food drive ended this past week with over 1,700 cans and $1,100 raised for the First United Methodist Church Mission Food Bank that helps locals who are struggling wi...

With winter gently knocking on the door, we celebrated Thanksgiving. Our hostesses, Georgia Small, Kit Lund and Jeannie Russell, did a beautiful job of decorating in fall colors and, of course, turkey...

Locals may have wondered why a man was carrying a cross through downtown Checotah on Nov. 15 and then through Eufaula on Nov 19, but for those who were brave enough to stop and ask, one mans journey a...

MUSKOGEE - After 25 years a man who brutally killed a victim in rural Mc-Intosh County was convicted of second-degree murder last week in federal court in Muskogee. Patrick Dwayne Murphy, 52, of Verno...

Candidate filing for the Board of Education begins Monday, Dec. 2, for McIntosh County school districts. Those who wish to file for a Board of Education office must submit a Declaration of Candidacy t...

Over 200 producers turned out last Tuesday evening for the McIntosh County Cattlemens Association Annual Membership Banquet at the Checotah Senior Citizens Center. MCCA President Josh Emerson thanked ...

Channel 6 news anchor Craig Day was the guest of honor at this years Lights On Eufaula celebration, an event hosted by Karen Weldin and Vision Eufaula. Hundreds of fans filled the streets, visiting st...