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Friday Night Scores - Nov. 6, 2009 Ada 7 vs McAlester 21 Konawa 6 vs Stratford 21 Bowlegs 22 vs.

Friday Night Football Scores - October 30, 2009 Ada 38 vs. Tahlequah 20 Coalgate 13 vs.

William "Bill" Marion Gardner, longtime Stuart resident, passed away October 23, 2009 at his residence at the age of 51.

Sen. Susan Paddack is helping area students learn exactly what it is a state legislator does - and why students should care about what happens at the State Capitol.

It took Catoosa's Blue Whale, Foyil's Totem Pole, a town named Hooker, Nowata's Bowling Ball Fence and the grave near Tahlequah of Mr.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper who is on leave for the second time this year over excessive force complaints said in his report on the latest incident that he hit a man with his baton only after the man appeared to physically resist arrest.

Serious questions have arisen regarding the legal counsel of an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper accused of using excessive force more than once while on duty.

What are Tulsans talking about today? OHP Trooper Daniel Martin, last seen in video in May choking a paramedic, is on paid administrative leave again after being accused of using excessive force.

The man who accused an OHP trooper of using excessive force has now been charged with obstructing an officer.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is in the middle of another controversy involving an officer who made national headlines after he was caught on tape choking a paramedic during a traffic stop.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper involved in a scuffle with a paramedic back in May is on paid administrative leave after once again being accused of using excessive force.

DISTURBANCE 500 block E. 13th: Joseph Knighten, 27, Wynnewood, was arrested Sept.

A Holdenville man was injured in a motorcycle crash Monday. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Tony Lemay said the wreck occurred on Spaulding Road about one mile south of Oak Ridge Road just after 2 p.m. Lemay said 37-year-old Robert Martin was driving a 2002 Honda Motorcycle north when he swerved to miss another vehicle going south.

Priscilla Christine Johnson, 90, of Harvest, Ala., died Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, at her home.

A nonprofit group that performed a study of Oklahoma school district Web sites this summer says most of the sites don't meet basic criteria for transparency for taxpayers.

HOLDENVILLE a ' Hughes County resident Sue McLoud has a tax warning for rural Oklahoma residents: Living outside the city limits wona TMt necessarily exempt you from paying city sales and use taxes.

Konawa City Council's debate on allowing first floor residences on Broadway ended in Thursday evening's meeting with a 3-2 split vote.

A concrete slab that billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens' scrawled his signature in as a child has been returned to Holdenville.

HIZZONER JUDGE COOK: U.S. Rep. John Sullivan has introduced a bill to rename the old federal courthouse in Tulsa after the late U.S. Senior District Judge H. Dale Cook, who died last year at 84.

Diamondback Cor-rectional Facility has received the Disabled American Veterans' award as the state's top military-friendly employer in the large company category.