Tahlequah News

Cherokee County commissioners met briefly in special session Wednesday morning at the courthouse for some housekeeping items.

The Cherokee Nation's attorney general says it's likely the Tahlequah-based tribe will appeal a decision about its historical status made by the new head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.

A Tahlequah bank is one of 10 institutions nationwide selected to receive stimulus dollars to help American Indian communities, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.

One of the last things Shirley Pettengill did for the Oklahoma Historical Society was get killed in the line of duty.

The court issued an order Friday for the return of two children to Brandy Evans, custodial parent of the youth.

* Staff Writer Sharry Mouss gets you up to speed on what's going on at the Cherokee Heritage Center this summer.

Cherokee Nation officials in Oklahoma are asking for people with artifacts relating to the Cherokee Nation to return them for use in a museum.

The Tahlequah Archaeological Society will meet Thursday, June 25, from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Carnegie Room at the Tahlequah Public Library.

Oklahoma could be facing a shortage of teachers in the future as the number of retiring educators exceeds the amount coming into the profession.

During the regular meeting of the Tahlequah Public Works Authority Friday morning, members approved the $19 million budget for the new fiscal year.

A Tahlequah man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking $5,000 from the United Keetoowah Band while working for the tribal housing office.

One person has been found dead by firefighters battling a house fire near the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.

Local authorities apprehended a local man this week after a chemical smell was emanating from his motel room.

Among the performers Saturday at Prelude to the Symphony in Florence will be the reigning Miss Cherokee, a great-great-niece of a Florence resident.

A Cherokee County jury deliberated for approximately four hours Wednesday before convicting a Sallisaw man of first-degree manslaughter and three other charges.

Things got pretty hot at the Tahlequah Public Library Tuesday - or at least, it looked that way to the kids who were treated to the live, interactive show.

Tahlequah City Hospital recently implemented a scholarship program designed to encourage students to choose a career in the medical field.

Cherokee County prosecutors have filed second-degree rape charges on a pair of men in connection with separate incidents.

Testimony will resume at 9 a.m., today, in the first-degree manslaughter trial of a Sallisaw man charged after a fatality car crash in Tahlequah.

Somehow, the centuries seem to merge on the gracious grounds of the Murrell Home.