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Seminole County -Birthdays- Today’s birthdays include Shane Batey, Sean Blackwell, David Bowman, Cleo Bradley, Sue Brotman, Jeana Casto, Lisa Choate, Deanna Clifton, Penny Dyer, Imogene Griffith, Joanna Harjo, Waylon Holtman Jr., Brandon Leslie, Abby McClellan, Angela Phillips, Jimmy Plotner,...

WASHINGTON — Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, and 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech there, thousands...

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2026Today is the 245th day of 2026 and the 74th day of summer.TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1666, the Great Fire of London began as a small fire in a bakeshop, ending three days later after destroying more than 13,000 buildings.In 1789, Congress created the U.S. Department of the...

WASHINGTON – The recent incursion by masked federal agents on Tohono O’odham land didn’t just anger that tribe, which has been trying to block border wall construction along the remote stretch it controls in Arizona.

GasBuddy, North America’s trusted fuel savings platform for more than 25 years, today released its annual Labor Day gas price forecast, predicting that average gas prices on the last summer holiday weekend of 2026 will be $4.03 per gallon, 87 cents higher than in 2025, and the highest Labor Day...

DALLAS (UPI) - Janna Little Boren, former wife of Oklahoma Gov. David Boren, and Texas oilman John Clinton Robbins III were married today in a private ceremony at a church. Robbins is president of Robbins Petroleum Co. of Longview, Tex.

At an Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting last November, member Becky Carson called on the board to shift its priorities to filling classrooms with properly trained, fully certified teachers.

The story about the upcoming Melvin Moran Open Golf Tournament that appeared in our Aug. 30 weekend edition contained an incorrect phone number.

Oklahoma House Republican leaders have blocked off three days next month to look into allegations of misconduct against a member of their own party.Rep. Mike Osburn, who chairs the House Rules Committee, said lawmakers will meet behind closed doors Sept. 8 to discuss the allegations made by House...