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Routine traffic stop leads to seizure of 11 pounds of cocaine

7 years ago By News Staff

A routine traffic stop in late August has resulted in the confiscation of what authorities say was more than 11 pounds of suspected cocaine. Canadian County Sheriff Chris West said

Numbers show improved education leads to improved health

7 years ago By Ray Carter - Center for Independent Journalism

If lawmakers want to improve health outcomes in Oklahoma, one way to generate significant progress is to improve education outcomes, one expert recently told members of the legislative Healthcare Working

City closes unfit apartment building

7 years ago By Ray Dyer

Earlier this year, El Reno’s fire marshal told the owners of the Heritage Park Apartments, 405 W. Watts, the elevator inside the building had to be repaired. It was not

Memory box

7 years ago By Shane Smith

Sometimes a parent will die before their child is born. The child has no memory of the parent because they never met, and it can be hard for the child

ER Council condemns Sunset site

7 years ago By Ray Dyer

Four years is long enough to make home repairs. That was the consensus of the El Reno City Council last week when it ordered a two-story house on Sunset Drive

County OKs largest budget in history, pay raises expected

7 years ago By Terry Groover

Canadian County workers could see an increase in their paychecks come January, after county officials gave tentative approval to the largest budget in county history. The county excise board, which

Hurricane Dorian shows mankind still struggling with wrath of nature

7 years ago By News Staff

As we watched weather events unfold in the Caribbean and along the East Coast over the last week, we were reminded that mankind has maintained a continuous struggle against assaults

Painting by N.C. Wyeth. When my children were little I told them what my father told me when I was a frightened 4-year-old — the storm is simply the old man beating his thunder drum. ( Courtesy photo)

Center of Family Love tour

7 years ago By News Staff

Oklahoma Farm Service Agency Director Scott Biggs and several members of his staff toured the Center of Family Love in Okarche last week. The tour was arranged by Rep. Mike

Critic of virtual schools has degree from online university

7 years ago By Ray Carter

A state senator who has been a prominent critic of Oklahoma’s virtual charter schools for K-12 students, particularly Epic Charter Schools, holds a doctorate from a for-profit online university that

9/11 remembered

7 years ago By News Staff

Union City educator Kerri Griggs looks out over one of the twin pools at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City during a visit. The bronze slates around the pools have inscribed the names of those who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

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