December 2025

El Reno High School’s football program recently put the wraps on the league portion of the 2025 season with seven players earning spots on the various squads making up the 5A-2 All-District Awards.The honors are senior-only, other than the Most Valuable Player, and voted on by member coaches.

Editor’s Note: Due to early holiday deadlines, the final two games of the tourney will appear in the Jan. 7 edition.The assault on the state record for the most consecutive victories has ended as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team had its 51-game win streak snapped in the first round of the...

Editor’s Note: As we move from 2025 to 2026, we'll take a look back at some of the stories that made headlines locally. This is the first of three installments looking back at the past year.

Several hundred people enjoyed the annual Kennedy Family El Reno Community Christmas Eve Dinner last week.Dwight Kennedy along with family, friends and volunteers put on the event at Wesley United Methodist Church.Children were treated to toys and gifts as part of the community Christmas...

A Yukon man has been caught after allegedly trying to meet an underage girl for sex.Nickolus Trevon Johnson, age 30, was charged in Canadian County District Court with lewd or indecent proposals to a child under 16 and possession of child sexual abuse material.This case stemmed from an undercover...

The Oklahoma Insurance Department announced a package of preliminary legislative proposals that fail to directly address skyrocketing premiums and suggest measures that would make it more difficult for policyholders to fight back, critics say.

Nearly a decade after Missouri lost its NFL franchise in St. Louis to Los Angeles, the state learned Monday that the Kansas City Chiefs are moving across the state line to Kansas.The news, rumored for days, was greeted with shock and despair in Missouri, where hopes were high that a $1.5 billion...

While no teams have tipped off their NJCAA Region 2 schedules, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team has positioned itself to be a contender for the 2026 regular-season title.Redlands closed out the 2025 portion of its schedule with a 94-46 win over Southwestern Christian University to...

Redlands Community College men’s basketball team will be looking for consistence when the Cougars hit the road Monday to kick off NJCAA Region 2 action at Connors State College.Jose Molina Negron’s team is currently 6-8 on the season but the Cougars have not won more than two games in a...

Fred W. Freeman passed from this earth and went to be with his Lord on Dec. 24, 2025, at the age of 83 in Oklahoma City.Fred was born Sept. 9, 1942, in Meridian, MS, to John and Wilma Freeman.