The Woods County Commissioners approved some REAP grant reimbursements and Christmas uses for the courthouse property during their regular meeting Monday morning. Commissioners Damien Starks, Shane Vore and John Smiley attended. Also at the meeting were Emergency Manager Evan Yauk, County Sheriff Randy McCullough and Commissioners’ Assistant Christy Gregory. The commissioners approved a road cross...

Voters in Leflore & Sequoyah counties voted on state representative and state senator races, as well as statewide races for governor, lieutenant governor and more.

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot (76-meter) triumphal arch in Washington would not be completed until after the end of his second term. If it is given the go-ahead, the [...]

The Justice Department has escalated its investigation over a Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, issuing a letter to a prominent Democratic attorney in Washington and others that they may be targets of the criminal inquiry. That's according to two people familiar with the matter. The target letter to attorney Marc Elias, who for years has represented Democratic campaigns as well as the party itself in election-related challenges, is one of multiple letters that wer

The pilot of a business jet that crashed in Florida, killing all nine people aboard, was a longtime aviator, husband and a father from the Philadelphia suburbs. That's according to a colleague who organized an online fundraiser for his family and social media posts from people who knew him. Jeff Gregory was one of two crew members in the cockpit of the Bahamas-bound Learjet 60 when it encountered bad weather and slammed into the ground Sunday near West Palm Beach. As the plane plunged, a man’s

The Justice Department arrested an Oklahoma man for sending letters with white powder to elected officials ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections. The post Oklahoma Man Arrested for Sending Nearly 700 Powder-Filled Letters to Pols Ahead of 2024 and 2026 Elections first appeared on Mediaite.

Cor de Lux has spent the past few years building a sound all its own on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The band blends post-punk, shoegaze, and post-hardcore, pairing hazy melodies with jagged guitars and bursts of noise. After releasing its debut album Nail Biter in 2024 and then Long Face [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it was deploying 1,000 election monitors and observers to all 50 states in what it called the largest Election Day monitoring effort in history. • A Justice Department statement identified which jurisdictions within [...]

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions. The Justice Department said Harvard thwarted its efforts to investigate potential discrimination. The department accused Harvard of refusing to comply with a federal investigation and asked a judge to order the university to turn over the records. But U.S. Dist

The Storey County Board of Commissioners advanced several major county initiatives during its Oct. 6 and Oct. 20 meetings, including approving a $7.25 million design contract for the proposed Justice Center, awarding community project funding, and they continued discussions on proposed state legislation affecting data centers.Commissioners