Board also approves Buddy Anderson to serve as interim treasurer effective Nov. 1 The Pottawatomie County Board of County Commissioners on Monday gave approval for most of the Sheriff’s Office operations and staff to relocate offices in the coming months, while Sheriff Mike Booth and courthouse security offices and personnel will remain in the 1930s-built courthouse.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Questions over whether the Osage Nation reservation in northern Oklahoma still exists will next be answered by the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals. Osage County District Judge Stuart Tate ruled last week in a criminal case involving a Native American defendant that the Osage Nation reservation was disestablished by Congress and that the state therefore retains criminal jurisdiction there.
Charles describes ‘weight of history’ in speech to lawmakers LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has addressed lawmakers in Parliament, telling them “I cannot but help feel the weight of history which surrounds us.” Charles told members of the House of Commons and House of Lords that he would follow his late mother Queen Elizabeth II in upholding “the precious principles of constitutional governance” that underpin the U.K.’s political system. He paid tribute to his mother, saying: “As Shakespeare said of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was a pattern to all princes living.” King Charles III and his siblings escort queen’s coffin EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — As Queen Elizabeth II’s four children walked silently behind, a hearse carried her flag-draped coffin along a crowd-lined street in the Scottish capital Monday to a cathedral, where a service of thanksgiving hailed the late monarch as a “constant in all of our lives for over 70 years.” Four days after the 96-year-old queen died at her beloved Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands, a military bagpiper played as her oak coffin, draped in the royal standard, was borne from the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh under late-summer sunshine.
The Pott. County Free Fair, held at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center, ended Saturday.
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School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University Pets can develop chronic pain for a variety of reasons, but because they cannot verbally tell us when they’re hurting, overcoming the communication barrier can quickly become challenging for pet owners who want to alleviate any and all pain in their fourlegged friends. Dr.
ODWC The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation offers a glimpse of state fishing conditions, including conditions at Konawa Lake in Seminole County. SOUTHEAST Konawa: September 4.
STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State University just kicked off its football season with a change to one of football’s biggest staples.
Through a 0.495-cent Pottawatomie County sales tax increase for schools, backed by voters in November of 2015 and set to continue until June 30, 2026, schools have been collecting funds for more than six years — now past the halfway mark of its goal.
Local reports Over the weekend, members of the Shawnee Fire Department climbed a total of 110 flights of stairs to honor those lost on 9/11. They first gathered at Station No.