Dorothy Louise McGarry, 91, of Weston, Mo., passed away May 7, 2026. Dorothy was born Feb. 21, 1935 in Choctaw County, Okla., to Claude and Leona (McQueen) Harless. She married Raymond Howard McGarry on June 19, 1953 at the Baptist Church of Soper, Okla.

Blessings for a Defiled People 10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai: 11 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says: 12 If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”

to point The political season is heating up across Oklahoma and a number of other states, and new technologies are already causing problems that were rare in the past. A recent “AI” generated ad in the Oklahoma governor’s race has a photo of one candidate embracing Hillary Clinton as if they were buddies and makes other false or speculative comments about them.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Ross Ford, R-Broken Arrow, recently commended the governor for signing into a law a bill that adds the operational area of an airport to the list of places considered as critical infrastructure.

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City television station (KFOR) has aired a story stating Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt may be considering calling a special session of the legislature to ban the use of artificial intelligence in political ads, following a News 4 investigation into an AI-generated attack ad running in the Republican primary to pick his successor.

FBI Director Kash Patel says prior administrations looked the other way on election cheating but “those days are over.” Despite evidence to the contrary, liberal voting activists have spent years minimizing cheating concerns and portraying those who want to investigate such problems as “election deniers.” But the Justice Department, FBI and Homeland Security are now systematically exposing electoral fraud from noncitizen voting to ballot-box-stuffing schemes that are turning the table in epic fashion. The latest strike came Monday when a longtime voting activist in California reached a deal with federal prosecutors to admit to illegally paying homeless people to sign election petitions and paying people to register to vote in a two-decade scheme that allegedly leveraged the Democratrun state’s lax mail-in voting system, which sends ballot forms to everyone whether they ask for them or not.

Four teams from the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority (CNHSA) have been honored with the 2024 Director’s Award from the Indian Health Service, recognizing their outstanding contributions to improve the health and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

The Choctaw Nation Talihina Community Clinic (TCC) is moving locations to better serve patients and the community. The new location, at 818 Dallas Street, Talihina, Okla., officially opened on Monday, May 11, 2026 as Choctaw Nation Health & Community Care.

Choctaw County Election Board officials recently completed their biennial County Election Board training sponsored by the Oklahoma State Election Board. Local businesses contributed refreshments for the training session, with El Kanelo Restaurant donating bottled water and Pruett’s Food Store, through Kendall Ward and Brandon Wofford, providing snacks for attendees.

ANTLERS –– Seven Practical Nursing students graduated from Kiamichi Tech - Antlers on Thursday, May 7, 2026. According to the program director, Shelly Swalley, Practical Nursing graduates complete 1,508 hours of class time and clinical hours in 18 months and must pass a rigorous exam in order to graduate.