Dedicated to public education, school board members across the state are committed to providing every opportunity possible to students in their community. January is School Board Recognition Month, providing local schools and communities the chance to honor Oklahoma’s more than 2,500 elected school board members for their dedication and service.

Our Blood Institute is in critical need of type O blood donors, with supplies of both O-positive and O-negative blood at low levels following the holidays. With patients living in the balance every day, O donors are needed now to support hospitals and emergency responders.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” — John. F.

The Oklahoma Rodeo Pageants Council is announcing major changes to the format for the Miss Rodeo Oklahoma competition scheduled for June 9–12, 2026, in Woodward, Okla. The changes are designed to make the pageant more attractive and affordable to contestants across its four age divisions.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Chayse Anthony Beard, age 24, of Hugo, Okla., was sentenced to 57 months in prison for one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, and 57 months in prison for one count of possession of certain material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor. The court ordered the terms to be served concurrently.

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Two motorists were hurt in a traffic accident Monday along U.S. Highway 271, just south of the Pushmataha and Choctaw county line.

FORT TOWSON –– The Hugo Plant coal unit that continues to serve Western Farmers Electric Cooperative’s (WFEC) members as it has since 1982, will soon be joined by nine additional Siemens Energy gas turbines. The natural gas supply for this project will be supplied by a new pipeline owned by Oklahoma Natural Gas, a division of ONE Gas, Inc. This pipeline will bring natural gas 43 miles from Bennington Natural Gas Hub, located in Bennington, Okla., to WFEC’s Hugo Plant.

Amid a recent federal ruling on Oklahoma’s 20-plus-year lawsuit over poultry litter pollution of the Illinois River Watershed, Attorney General Gentner Drummond met today with a large group of poultry producers for a candid conversation about the case.

OSU Cooperative Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition Specialist Ionophores are feed additives that improve ruminal efficiency by shifting fermentation toward greater propionate production and reducing energy lost as methane in the rumen. The ionophores monensin (marketed as Rumensin by Elanco Animal Health and as the FDA-approved generic Monovet by Huvepharma) and lasalocid (marketed as Bovatec by Zoetis) are approved for growing cattle on pasture or in confinement and are commonly used in heifer development programs.