Devol News

Services will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, April 11, 2013, at the First United Methodist Church, Grandfield, Oklahoma, with Rev.

The Comanche Nation has begun construction on a hotel to go with a casino in Cotton County just north of the Red River in south Oklahoma.

The casino is celebrating its 10th year. The Comanche Red River Casino breaks ground Friday morning on an 87-room hotel next to the casino in Devol, Okla.

The Kiowa Election Board will be conducting a special election Dec. 22. All eight seats on the tribe's business council and four seats on the Kiowa Housing Commission will be on the ballot.

An attorney for an Oklahoma death row inmate asked the state's highest criminal appeals court Tuesday to instead give him a life term, arguing that a judge didn't account for mitigating circumstances when re-sentencing her client to death for the 2003 murder of a state highway patrolman.