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A county commissioner talked about lynching Black people during the same conversation. McCurtain County is one of the most diverse counties in Oklahoma, with large Black and Indigenous populations.
The Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association suspended the McCurtain County sheriff and two other staffers Tuesday after they were secretly recorded talking about killing reporters and lynching Black ...
Bruce Willingham, the longtime publisher of the McCurtain Gazette-News, said the recording was made March 6 when he left a voice-activated recorder inside the room after a county commissioner’s ...
McCurtain County is one of Oklahoma's most racially diverse counties, but remains highly economically and racially segregated. [3] On March 6, the McCurtain Gazette-News brought suit against the McCurtain County Board of County Commissioners, the county Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Kevin Clardy, and county investigator Alicia Manning in federal ...
The McCurtain Gazette-News was founded in Idabel, Oklahoma, in 1905 as the Idabel Signal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The paper has been published by Bruce Willingham and the Willingham family since 1988. [ 3 ] In 2023, the paper had a circulation of about 4,400 readers and published three issues weekly.
McCurtain County National Bank in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. The area now included in McCurtain County was part of the Choctaw Nation before Oklahoma became a state. The territory of the present-day county fell within the Apukshunnubbee District, one of three administrative superregions comprising the Choctaw Nation, and was divided among six of its counties: Bok Tuklo, Cedar, Eagle, Nashoba, Red ...
The McCurtain County newspaper published stories in early 2023 about how the county sheriff and county commissioners conducted illegal meetings that included discussion of threatening to hang ...
In 2012, the Bulletin was combined with the Jenks Journal and Glenpool Post to form the South County Leader. The South County Leader ceased publication in 2014. [13] Branding Iron: Atoka: 1884 1884 [14] The Broken Arrow Ledger: Broken Arrow: 1904: 2017: Purchased by Tulsa World: Cheyenne Transporter: Darlington Agency: 1879 1886 [15] Choctaw ...