Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed legislation that offers hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to relocate from Missouri.
The legislation, an expansion of one of the state’s tax incentive programs, could help finance up to 70 percent of the cost for one or both teams to build a new stadium in Kansas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a dozen pro-life Americans are currently in federal prison. Their crime? Staging a peaceful sit-in at a late-term abortion business in the nation’s capitol because it potentially illegally killed babies in full-term abortions or infanticides.
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Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Tana Rafter for $1,609.56 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
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The man suspected of killing an El Reno man, as well as others in a cross-country crime spree, met his alleged victim here at the local AA meetings.
El Reno Police Chief Ken Brown said Stacy Lee Drake, 50, of Birmingham, Ala., is the main suspect in the death of Phillip Emerson, 56, who lived at 204 N. Macomb.
Parents, at least for now, will no longer have the option of free after-school care for their children.
El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher said the decision to put all district-wide, after-school programs on hiatus was not easy.
“It was a horrible decision to make. We wanted to be able to offer it but we lost the federal funding that allowed us to do it for free the last three or four years at no cost to the parents.
Golfers at Crimson Creek will pay a bit more for everything after the El Reno City Council approved a 10 percent across the board hike at the municipal course.
The vote at the June council meeting was 5-0. City Manager Matt Sandidge said the course has not had a rate hike since 2022 and inflation has driven up the costs to operate and maintain the course.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an aborted landing after a Southwest Airlines flight buzzed Yukon early Wednesday morning.
There will be a runoff on Tuesday, Aug. 27 to determine who will succeed House District 60 State Rep. Rhonda Baker (R-Yukon).
Mike Kelley and Ron Lynch will face off after being the top two vote-getters among four Yukon Republican candidates in last Tuesday’s House District 60 primary election.
Kelley, a retired Oklahoma City fire chief, finished first with 41.70 percent of 3,043 votes in 17 precincts.
Lynch, a small-business owner, was second with 21.85 percent of the vote.
A Red Lake, Minn., man has been convicted of causing the fentanyl-related death of his daughter last year in western Canadian County.
George Harold Graves, 55, was sentenced June 7 to serve 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony first-degree murder charge in Canadian County District Court.
George Graves “regardless of malice … took the life” of Stormie Jasmine Graves in February 2023 when she overdosed at her Calumet home, according to the charging document signed by Assistant District Attorney Austin T. Murrey.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Kevin Stitt said his Chief of Staff Brandon Tatum will be the new CEO of the Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO).
“Brandon has served Oklahoma well and I’m excited for this next step in his journey. He believes in the mission of making Oklahoma a Top Ten state in everything we do and knows that a strong university system in our state is an important part of that,” said Gov. Stitt. “I know he will do great things at RUSO and will continue to work to align our education systems with our state’s workforce needs.”
