Sequoyah County Commissioners were reminded last Monday of the annual Don Butcher Fish Fry, which will be held on Sept. 28 at the Sequoyah County Fairgrounds and is sponsored by the SAC Nutrition Prog...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Samuel Jason Nutt, 50, of Sallisaw, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, and 3 years supervised release for ...

Richard “Ricky” Don Rainwater, 44, charged with the strangulation death of Larry Lane, Sr., was arraigned in Cherokee County Court last Tuesday before District Judge Sandy Crosslin, Sequoyah County Di...

The Reynolds Cancer Support House in partnership with the UAFS College of Health Sciences Dental Hygiene Program will be providing free oral cancer screenings from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 27. The screeni...

Slammin’ Sammy Rogers, 28, of Muldrow may not have won his bout in the cage Saturday night but it hasn’t changed his attitude one bit – because either way, Rogers said he is winning and conquering adv...

The owner and a worker of the China Doll Massage Parlor have been arrested following an investigation by local authorities, the Tulsa Police Department Vice Unit and an investigator with Homeland Secu...

An Arkansas man has been charged with violation of sex offender registration act after he reportedly began working at a local grocery store without notifying authorities as part of his registration ag...

A Colorado man has been arrested and charged after taking authorities on a pursuit on U.S. Interstate-40 near Muldrow, which ended after a Muldrow Police officer utilized his stop sticks. Jason Treube...

At what age is a person an adult? Age 27. They’re almost done with college. If you could change one rule, what would it be? Helping my little brother because he’s shorter! Of all the things you are le...

A low cost spay neuter clinic will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 4 at the Sallisaw Animal Care Facility. Registration for surgery will be taken from 10 a.m. to noon, Sept. 25, Sept. 26 and Sept....

Political spending by secretive groups that are allowed to hide their donors have already spent what is likely a record amount this year to influence Oklahoma political races. An Oklahoma Watch review...

The Muldrow Lions Club is making plans for Old Settlers Day 2018 to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Muldrow City Park. Marvin Brant, secretary and past president of the Muldrow ...

This Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, 2018, will be the 100-year anniversary of the Armistice ending World War I. Sallisaw VFW Post 4518 wants to honor the WWI veterans and the families who lost loved ones. Th...

The Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation (APCF) will host a free prostate cancer education and screening event on Sept. 27 at the Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House, located at 3324 S. M St. in Fo...

An Arkansas man has been charged after he reportedly took a car without the owner’s permission to buy some methamphetamine and never returned. Leonard L. Wiley, 38, of Fort Smith, has been charged wit...

The Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation is temporarily opening the Mutual Help/Rural Rental Homeownership waiting list for qualified Native American families in Sequoyah County. Families may subm...

The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith has released the list of students receiving degrees and certificates during the spring 2018 semester and the first summer term ending in July. Conferred were th...

The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith will hold its annual Majors Expo from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Reynolds Room of the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, offering students an opportunit...

“Frankly, I’m running sideways trying to figure this thing out,” Steve Carter, District 2 commissioner for Sequoyah County, said regarding a request for a liquor license by ABLE for a Sallisaw store. ...

Governor Mary Fallin have announced that the state and tribe are forming a coordinating council to evaluate the expansion of poultry growth in northeast Oklahoma. The Coordinating Council on Poultry G...