New scam targets Oklahomans

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• Imposters claims to represent Attorney General’s Office Attorney General Gentner Drummond is warning Oklahomans about a new scam where imposters are calling citizens to tell them they have won money. The caller claims to be an agent with the Attorney General’s office and tells recipients they need to pay a fee to collect their winnings.

Early art designs featured in Choctaw Cultural Center exhibit

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The Choctaw Cultural Center’s newest exhibit “Bolukta: Mississippian Designs, Medallions, and Modern Choctaw Art” features recent works by Jane Semple Umsted. This exhibit allows for a closer study of the artist’s skill at creating traditional designs in the mediums of acrylics and batiks. The exhibit will open on April 16, 2024, and run through Oct. 19, 2024, on the center’s Exhibit Wall.

Public Records

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Felony 060 – Jonathan Lynn Lane: DUI. 061 – Kaeson Holman: Possession of firearm while on supervision.

Our Readers Want to Know...

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“A Choctaw County man died in the jail earlier this year and there has never been any kind of statement concerning his death. Why has there been no public statement? Dear Reader...
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Deuteronomy 10

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Tablets Like the First Ones 1 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. a 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

Zechariah 1

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A Call to Return to the Lord 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo: 2 “The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

Eclipse brings excitement to onlookers

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A bustling crowd of curious onlookers and enthusiasts gathered in Hugo Monday to witness the rare celestial event that has captivated much of the United States for weeks –– a solar eclipse that granted close to four minutes of totality for those in Choctaw County.
Eclipse brings excitement to onlookers

Three perish in Push. Co. plane crash

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ANTLERS — An Antlers man, his son, and a friend perished southwest of Antlers Thursday afternoon when their small aircraft crashed and burned at approximately 4:33 p.m. on E. 1960 Rd., just west of the N 4140 intersection three miles southwest of Antlers.

Local candidates to run unopposed

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After last weeks filings for declarations of candidacy for county offices, the incumbents will run unopposed. Filings for offices, include: • Choctaw County, Court Clerk: Laura Sumner.
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