CHOCTAW COUNTY –– The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), at the request of the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office, is conducting an investigation into a homicide/shooting/ suicide incident. On Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at around 7:35 a.m., Choctaw County received 911 calls about a shooting that occurred along Highway 147, approximately six miles north of Highway 70, in Choctaw County. Witnesses observed a male, later identified as Spencer Laine Dillishaw, 22, shoot a female, later identified as Ragina Vargus Dillishaw (26 years old), and a 6-year-old boy, before turning the gun on himself.

Livestock owners who plan to purchase hay over the next few months need to make careful and informed decisions to protect their animals, especially when purchasing hay from out of state. Buyers should be aware that the drought has significantly impacted forage quality this year.

funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This year’s awards include 17 for a new category that supports implementation of climate adaptation strategies, and 6 for a new category that supports implementation of community relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place actions. Since 2011, BIA’s Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience has awarded over $120 million to Tribes and intertribal organizations for climate adaptation, ocean and coastal management, and community- driven relocation efforts.

A total of 135 scholarships valued at more than $350,000 were awarded at the 2022 Chahta Foundation Scholarship Banquet. This year’s event, the first since 2019 because of COVID, was held at the Choctaw Cultural Center with 100 people in attendance.

Is the Constitution a religous document? Did it have a Biblical foundation? The fundamental act of our Founding, (the Declaration of Independence), recognizes the Creator God as the Source of Rights. It acknowledges that the purpose of civil government is simply to “secure” the Rights God gave us.

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Several Choctaw Nation Health departments have a new home in Stigler, Okla. On Oct. 27 the Choctaw Nation Health Clinic held a ribboncutting ceremony to celebrate the new extension location in the Stigler Office Building.

The solution to a rare but debilitating and often fatal blood disease may be as close as your medicine cabinet, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have discovered. Researchers in the lab of OMRF scientist Lijun Xia, M.D., Ph.D., found that lowdosage aspirin could prevent acute attacks of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or TTP, in mouse models.

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has announced that Kendall Morgan, 44, the former undersheriff of the Le Flore County Sheriff’s Department (LCSO) in Le Flore County, Okla., pleaded guilty to a criminal civil rights violation for using unlawful force on an arrestee.