TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma – A museum in Northeastern Oklahoma has opened a new exhibit inviting the public to learn more about the education system of the nation's largest Native tribe.

STILWELL, Oklahoma – After a two-year hiatus imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Oklahoma Bigfoot Symposium crept back into Adair County last weekend, bringing with it several aficionados, but only four vendors – and no sign of any especially hairy guests.

TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma – A Northeastern Oklahoma couple are heading to Romania to help take care of refugees who are fleeing Ukraine.

MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma – Problems related to contamination of radioactive waste generated at two Northeastern Oklahoma facilities shuttered decades ago have spread to a uranium mill in Utah – the last of its kind in the U.S.

KINGFISHER, Oklahoma — After a school board rejected a $1.5 million settlement offer, the attorney representing a former student suing the Kingfisher Public Schools district and its coaches for abuse says the matter is set to play out in federal court.

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – A crude oil hub in the Midwest has reported a drop in storage consistent with events around the country, as global financial markets continue reeling in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

VELMA — Velma Alma Public Schools Superintendent Raymond Rice confirmed Thursday Andy McGuire has been relieved of his volunteer coaching duties, effective immediately.

McALESTER, Oklahoma — A man convicted of killing four people in 2005 offered no final words before being executed Thursday.

Thich Nhat Hanh, a humble but deeply powerful Buddhist monk from Vietnam, died on Saturday at 95.  Most people in the U.S. will never have heard of him.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — In a county of less than 85,000 people, more than 1% of its population was summoned as prospective jurors in the high-profile trial of three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was jogging in their Georgia neighborhood.  

If Mark Zuckerberg seems irritable, he has good reason. His Facebook Empire is facing a digital scandal provoked by a former employee turned whistleblower.

When I was a boy in California in the 1960s, my family was pretty much the only family I knew that ate bagels. That’s probably because we were Jewish and bagels are a Jewish thing.

After a noisy election season of discontent, Republicans see their road to recovery in discouraging eligible Americans from voting.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. – A gunman killed five children, ages 1 to 9, and his 24-year-old brother in a mass shooting early Tuesday at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where they all lived together, along with the mother of the children. 

The violent mob that stormed the national Capitol Wednesday repulsed many voters who supported President Trump’s reelection but the insurrection did not demoralize his zealots in America’s heartland.

First-time Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller could have drawn from the collective wisdom of countless thoughtful Americans as she addressed the group "Moms for America" at President Trump’s rally in Washington on Tuesday.

Molly Ivins, the feisty Texas columnist and author, described herself thusly before succumbing to breast cancer 13 years ago:  “I spent most of my life feeling like I’ve been shot out of a cannon.”

My grandfather, Harry S. Truman, initiated the protocols for the peaceful transfer of presidential power as we know them today. He invited President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower to send over his Cabinet and staff so they could kick the tires, as it were -- be briefed by their predecessors, attend meetings, try out the office chairs.

Following the announcement Saturday that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, President Donald Trump ought to concede and leave office with more dignity than he has shown as commander-in-chief.

In Washington, flip-flopping never gets in the way of political want. Nor does holding to principle or telling the truth.

Last week many people noticed a strange, smokey sky over much of the country, not realizing why it was there. The haze was smoke carried across the U.S. by the jet stream from the giant wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington.

NORMAN -- Oklahoma University’s football team canceled practice Friday to march lockstep from the stadium to the campus Unity Garden to protest racial injustice and the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

If you oppose mail-in voting because President Donald Trump calls it a fraud, prepare to stand in long lines to cast your ballot on Nov. 3 Election Day.

President Trump’s weekend with reporters at his private golf club in New Jersey can be explained as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Earl D. Lawson's death by COVID-19 was doubly cruel.

LOCKPORT, N. Y. -- The great debate over voting by mail has begun.

INDIANAPOLIS – Federal health officials report a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths occur in the nation’s nursing homes, but the agency tracking their morbidity rates maintains a database riddled with incomplete information and errors.

GROVELAND, Mass. – This unpretentious Massachusetts town joined the national concern over racism this week when a white man resident told a young Black woman resident she made him feel unsafe driving through his neighborhood.

STILLWATER, Okla. – The governing board of Oklahoma State University Friday ordered the removal of the name of the state’s 9th governor from campus halls because of his racist reputation.

Some events have the power of a match set to a mountain of dry wood. The video from Minneapolis, showing a police officer killing George Floyd in broad daylight, his knee pressed hard onto a handcuffed man’s neck as he pleads to live, all 8 1/2 minutes of it — this has been such an event.