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Read moreThe American Historical Association (AHA) has sent a letter to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and the state Board of Education registering our alarm at State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’s plans for a “complete overhaul” of Oklahoma’s academic standards for social studies.
Read moreCity and county law enforcement agencies have launched a crackdown on swimming in Sportsman Lake.
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The 2024 Chickasaw Historical Society (CHS) Ittafama Ithana (Gathering to Learn) Conference, conducted Aug. 8-9, provided opportunity to honor a longtime culture keeper and learn about tribal food sovereignty, past and present. The annual conference was conducted at the Artesian Hotel.
Read moreSorghum producers discovered a new pest in their crops on the Gulf Coast of Texas in the summer of 2013. Less than a year later, the sorghum aphid (known at the time as the sugarcane aphid) decimated Oklahoma sorghum, causing more than a 40% reduction in grain yields and thousands of dollars in economic losses for farmers. Having no familiarity with the sorghum aphid, most producers didn’t realize how quickly the pests would multiply or what that multiplication would cost them. By the time many Oklahoma growers realized they had a problem, sugarcane aphid populations had reached numbers nearly impossible to control. All sorghum fields suffered that year. Some were lost altogether.
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A suspect in the 2023 slaying of a Seminole man has been apprehended by Texas Rangers, the Seminole Lighthorse Police Department announced Friday.
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