Local News in Osage County

Mississippi Godayum: An Open Letter To A State With A Song Of Silence

Dear Mississippi, Your silence is a show tune. But you’ve sung this tune for far too long. In 1955, there was the gruesome murder of Emmett Till. Silence. In 1963, the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four Black…

City gateway signs finished

City streets get new stripes

SKOL to repair Hensley railroad crossing

Pastor embezzled $504K from historic Vernon AME, which survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

TULSA, Okla. — Historic Vernon AME Church says former pastor Keith Rydell Mayes Sr. acted without the knowledge or authorization of church leadership when he diverted more than $504,000 while overseeing the finances of one of Greenwood’s most significant institutions. Mayes, 63,…