(AP) - Josh Allen doesn’t need to win a Super Bowl to be No. 1.
The Buffalo Bills’ franchise player was voted the NFL’s top quarterback by The Associated Press in a preseason survey.
Oklahoma City Public Schools welcomed students to its newest high school campus Tuesday, a $116 million, 292,000-square-foot school on the city’s south side.
A discovery inside a 1971 college yearbook has given Life2Media Foundation founder Montye Purify a deeply personal reason to pursue an ambitious new mission: helping communities preserve their stories before they disappear.Purify recently learned that his father, Johnnie Purify Sr.
In special ceremonies held last Friday evening, longtime Konawa teacher and coach Don Gallagher was honored with having the high school track named in his honor. Gallagher is in his 50th year of teaching at Konawa.
THUNDER WIRE Russell Westbrook has announced his NBA retirement. The future Hall-of-Famer posted a self-made tribute video that highlighted his career accolades on Wednesday.
In the video, Westbrook wrote a caption that revealed his decision to hang up his sneakers.
In special ceremonies held last Friday evening, longtime Konawa teacher and coach Don Gallagher was honored with having the high school track named in his honor. Gallagher is in his 50th year of teaching at Konawa.
The Wewoka City Council tabled a proposed engineering scope of work for improvements to the city’s wastewater treatment plant at their meeting on Tuesday until they have a meeting with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
THUNDER WIRE Russell Westbrook has announced his NBA retirement. The future Hall-of-Famer posted a self-made tribute video that highlighted his career accolades on Wednesday.
In the video, Westbrook wrote a caption that revealed his decision to hang up his sneakers.
SSC Press Release Former University of Oklahoma women’s basketball Head Coach Sherri Coale shared lessons from her career and reflections on living intentionally during Seminole State College’s fall in-service on Aug. 12.
DEAR ABBY: Do charities and nonprofits share or sell donor information? For years, maybe decades, I've made quarterly contributions to two well-known charities for children's cancer research hospitals, and I truly believe in what they do.
DEAR ABBY: My brother “Earl” and I always had a very bad relationship. When I was 6 and Earl was 13, he molested me. Actually, he took my virginity. My mother caught him but whipped both of us and told me I should have known better than to allow it to happen. Fast-forward to when I was 17.
Kilgore Phyllis Ann Kilgore passed away Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at her home in Wewoka, Oklahoma at the age of 71.
She is preceded in death by her parents, sister, Janice Kilgore, brother, Robert Kilgore Jr.
Underwood Melvin (Mel) Ray Underwood, 87, longtime Seminole/Shawnee resident, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2026 at OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City.
The only son of Nancy Edna (Mills) and Clarence Ray Underwood, he was born June 3, 1939, in Seminole, Oklahoma.
Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Saturday⮚America 250 Block Party sponsored by the Seminole Arts Council in downtown Seminole 5-9 p.m.⮚ Seminole Masonic Lodge monthly breakfast 7 – 2 p.m.
There will be plenty to do in Seminole this Saturday as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.To start the day, the Masonic Lodge (1515 W. Wrangler Blvd.) will hold its monthly breakfast at 7 a.m.
More than 100 new laws take effect Wednesday.Many deal with the state’s fiscal year 2027 budget, which begins July 1.Other measures though are expected to impact public schools, employee pay and youth in foster care.
The Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research at the University of Oklahoma will launch its first Sovereign Policy Intensive in September, a new program designed for elected tribal officials that focuses on understanding broadly relevant federal systems grounded in departmental structures,...
Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Saturday⮚Early voting 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Seminole County Election Board, 200 S. Brown in Wewoka-Tuesday⮚Election Day. Polls open 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Monday⮚Graband go meal distribution 9 a.m. – noon at the Seminole Public Schools Administration building at 600 W. Strother (next scheduled event is Thursday, June 11)⮚ Butner Summer Pride 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Organized Crime Task Force raided two illegal marijuana grow operations near Seminole County last week.
According to a news release, on Wednesday, May 6 agents raided Benson Kush and Grand Growth, both in Prague.
The Strother Lady Yellowjackets hosted the Stroud Lady Tigers for the Senior Night softball game Monday.
Strother honored three of their seniors after the game. Seniors that were honored were Geneva Reynolds, Stevie Hogue and Emilie Echelle.