anniversaries
Simmons
Roy and Roberta (Webster) Simmons of Vian will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the Tenkiller State Park community building, located behind the cabin office. ...
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Cantrell
Don and Ruth Cantrell of Muldrow will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday. They will be honored with a reception held at the home of their daughter, Lisa of Muldrow. The event is ho...
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Bennie and Velma Hight then Hight
Bennie Hight and Velma (Brannam) Hight, life-long residents of Sallisaw, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Nov. 30 at the Sallisaw Civic Center. The event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. a...
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national news
Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.


Wed Jan 07 02:56:40 -0600 2009
Engineer: Tenn. ash spill warning signs ignored (AP)
AP - The nation's largest government-run utility ignored two small leaks that could have provided a warning years before a coal ash pond collapsed, flooding a neighborhood with a billion gallons of sludge, a former federal regulator contends.
Tue Jan 06 21:01:33 -0600 2009
Coleman sues over Minnesota Senate recount result (AP)

Republican Norm Coleman, center, along with his attorney Tony Trimble,left, his wife Laurie and several supporters announces he is suing to challenge the results of the U.S. Senate recount during a press conference Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 at the State Office Building in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months.


Tue Jan 06 23:29:55 -0600 2009