Thinking ahead is important, but acting head is often critical. From the U.S. Capitol to the state Capitol, Oklahoma leaders acted in support of Oklahoma flood control dams well before the recent hist...

27 Oklahoma educators will embark on career-changing professional development experiences this summer, thanks in part to a new Tribal Alliance. The alliance is comprised of the Chickasaw Nation, Chero...

Okmulgee County Republicans will host their monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the OSUIT Student Union Conference Room. Richard Larabee, Okmulgee Vice-Mayor, will be the featured gues...

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) is investigating the homicide of a 37-year-old Creek County man who was found last Thursday floating in floodwaters. According to the OSBI, a suspicious d...

A semi tractor-trailer stopped by law enforcement officers on Interstate 40 Saturday night near Henryetta yielded 230 pounds of high-grade marijuana. On June 1, the semi truck was traveling eastbound ...

Okmulgee County Commissioners are asking county residents to stop driving around road closure signs, especially to stop stealing those signs during their Monday meeting. “I think I’ve lost about $4,00...

Town of Dewar announced the annual Summer Clean Up Dump Day will be held on Saturday, June 15 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. The first load of rubbish can be discarded for free with a current Dewar water bil...

Monday kicked off the first day of the Henryetta Public Library Summer Reading Program. First through eighth grade students in attendance enjoyed a special program about rockets and remote-controlled ...

Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta hosted a public preview and tour of its on-going emergency room expansion and remodel project on May 28. Tours were given through Radiology, the emergency room waiting roo...

After almost 20 years of covering Okmulgee County sports, Henryetta Free-Lance and Okmulgee Times Sports Editor Larry Owen is leaving his post May 31. Most people have seen Owen along the sidelines, c...

Guest speaker at the May 29 Henryetta Rotary Club meeting was Justin Been, new Henryetta Public Schools Athletic Director and teacher. A Henryetta High School graduate, Been is excited about being a p...

Susan Barnett and Dorothy Burden were hostesses for the April meeting of the Okemah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Pepino’s Restaurant in Okemah. The tables were beautifully de...

Okmulgee County had the second highest unemployment in April, according to the latest news from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. During April, Latimer County and McIntosh County tied for f...

Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat named Senator Roger Thompson as co-chair of the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) oversight committee on May 29. Senate Bill 1, signed i...

Henryetta will see many visitors this Saturday, June 1 during Summer Cruise Knight, Henryetta R/C Aviators Fly-In & Air Show and the Disc Golf Tournament. R/C Aviators event begins with flying at 9:30...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from February business. The monies they reported this period represent sale...

Oklahoma lawmakers closed out the 2019 session Thursday after nearly four months of debate on hundreds of bills that could impact the state for years to come. The final week of the session saw the pas...

Three more cases of measles have been confirmed in Okmulgee County, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) and the Okmulgee County Health Department (OCHD). The heath department s...

Wilson Public Schools Board of Education hired Larry Childers as a teacher and football coach for the 2019-2020 school year. On Wednesday, Childers stopped by the Free-Lance office to announce that he...