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McAlester Regional Health Center has an immediate full time opening for a RN-Quality Services Coordinator.

A letter was being written Monday to the state auditor requesting an investigative audit of the town of Webbers Falls.

Haskell town councilors voted in a special meeting Monday to accept a proposal from Boynton to pay out $25,877.15 owed for water Boynton buys and sells to its citizens.

Two food handler classes will be held this week at the Muskogee County Health Department, 530 S. 34th St.

Kaidence Kastler-Ragsdale enjoys her first birthday. She is the grandaughter of Mike and Vickie Ragsdale.

A Stillwater police officer has been suspended without pay from his job at a junior high school after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Competency testing was ordered Monday for two people to be charged with cruelty to animals in the death and skinning of a seven-week-old Jack Russell terrier.

Air Force officials say 33 students and instructor pilots will be temporarily transferred to Randolph and Laughlin Air Force Bases in Texas as a strike at Vance Air Force Base continues.

The town of Boynton has about $15,000 in the bank and more than $40,000 in debts, Mayor Marie Wilson said Friday.

Marie Wilson was named mayor in a 2-1 vote at the Town of Boynton's regular meeting Monday.

Small towns may be allowed to hold elections at their town meetings, but they should still hold open, verifiable elections.

The resignation of the town clerk isn't the only problem facing Boynton these days, citizens were told as they attended a special meeting of the trustees Thursday night.

Doyle Reed looks the part of a heavy equipment operator. His skin is weathered. His large hands are proof that he worked hard for many years.

Clerk/Treasurer Pauline Osburn, under threat of a second arrest, released a handwritten list of past-due water bills, one totaling more than $8,000, another more than $7,000. Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson said his office has started an investigation into Boynton's town financial records.

An ongoing dispute between employees and town councilors at Boynton over who has access to town records resulted in charges being filed against the clerk/treasurer. Boynton Town Clerk and Treasurer Pauline Osburn was charged Friday with two misdemeanor counts of violation of the state Open Records Act.

NEWS * Police hope someone will be able to identify Drug Warehouse robbery suspect.

A group of enterprising families are building the community of Boynton using a cattle program.

A judge dismissed a first-degree murder charge against Jerry Chad Pippin, whose trial was to start Monday.

A charter bus and dozens of other vehicles have collided on snowy interstate in New Hampshire this morning, shutting down part of the highway.