A new behavioral health transportation model in Oklahoma is being hailed as a significant step toward eliminating stigma and decriminalizing mental health. Oklahoma is the first state in the nation to implement a statewide alternative approach to psychiatric transport services.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– The Soper Public Works Authority (Authority) in Choctaw County received approval for a $99,999 Rural Economic Action Plan (REAP) grant Thursday through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) to improve the Authority’s wastewater infrastructure.

Those filing for declarations of candidacy for local school board positions include (deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, Jory L.

HUGO –– The Hugo city council met for their final meeting of 2022 last Tuesday and approved several items, including the dates of all board meetings governed by the city for 2023, as well as holiday closings.

HUGO –– A Hugo man has been arrested on several complaints, one of which is statutory rape, after being caught in the back of a car with a child in different stages of undress. According to reports from the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Department, deputies responded to a call concerning a vehicle in a ditch on Dec.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”.

The American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., argued before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec.