OKLAHOMA CITY –– Oral health plays a vital role in our overall well-being, and yet, many individuals face significant barriers in obtaining adequate dental care, ranging from insurance coverage to distance for receiving care.

Across the country, residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities along with family members, Ombudsman program representatives, citizen advocates, facility staff, and others will honor the individual rights of long-term care residents by celebrating Residents’ Rights Month. Residents’ Rights Month is an annual event held in October by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care (Consumer Voice) to celebrate and focus on awareness of dignity, respect, and the value of long-term care residents.

Publisher It seems for the most part American citizens have gotten into the habit of not wanting to get too involved in the operation of their government, their schools or most of their social organizations. “That stuff is for someone else to worry about,” most seem to say.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined Senator James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) in cosponsoring bipartisan legislation titled the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023. This legislation would take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until the budgets are passed.

Former President Donald Trump appeared to turn the focus of his stinging rebuke outside the courtroom door from Justice Arthur Engoron to blistering New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James before Day 2 of his civil trial in Manhattan.

FORT TOWSON — The annual Doaksville Candlelight Tour will be held on Friday, Oct. 13, and Saturday, Oct.

Felony 102A – Terral Jack Barnes: Larceny of auto, aircraft, or other motor vehicle. 102B – Gerry Vance Noah: Larceny of auto, aircraft, or other motor vehicle.

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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kevin Stuart Pollard III, age 23, of Clayton, Okla., was sentenced to 57 months in prison for one count of sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country. Pollard was also sentenced to 24 months in prison each for two counts of abusive Sexual Contact in Indian Country. All sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

There’s an old saying that you don’t really appreciate something until you don’t have it anymore. We all know that to be true in our personal life with each loss of a lifelong friend or family member.