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Keep McAlester Beautiful’s J.T. Collier Memorial Foundation Scholarship recently awarded two graduating seniors with the ...
McAlester High School junior running back Jordan Clark wears the letters ‘e’, ‘a’ and ‘t’ on his jersey.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically ...
The music world lost two towering geniuses this past week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Both men made unique, influential ...
Oklahoma’s lawmakers are supposed to be accountable to the people who elected them, but our legislators conveniently forgot ...
Pocket veto” is the phrase for this week. Except during the last five days of the first regular session of the Legislature, ...
A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George ...
Few things are more American than protesting. First Amendment protections of free speech are broad.
In her eighth grade year at Frink-Chambers School, Kris Mitchell said she never thought a school picnic would get her interested in coaching basketball.
Jacob Thurman, Jerald Thurman's son, witnessed the execution and spoke afterward. He compared the past 20-plus years as the ...
The National Weather Service has rated McAlester’s June 7 tornado an EF1. Damage sustained in the downtown McAlester area came as a result of combined strong winds and the tornado, which ultimately ...
Nearly 26 years after he and an accomplice killed two people as part of a crime spree, 61-year-old George John Hanson was ...