The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said an El Reno man was killed Tuesday when the motorcycle he built crashed in a field. 

OHP reports said Craig D. Widdifield, 51, was pronounced deceased at Integris Baptist Hospital following the accident that occurred shortly after 2 p.m.

Reports said Widdifield was “driving around private property” southwest of El Reno when an equipment failure caused him to fall to the ground. Widdifield was said to have suffered head and neck injuries. 

Mayor Steve Jensen presents a plaque and nameplate to former city council member Pete Stapperfend.

Stapperfend served four years on the council before losing a re-election bid in November.

Former Mustang High School teacher Raymond Thomas Garner entered pleas of no contest to six felony counts relating to his repeated sexual assaults of a high school student between 2014 and 2017.

District Judge Paul Hesse accepted Garner’s plea and found him guilty.

An investigation by Mustang police revealed that Garner’s grooming of the student began when she was a 15-year-old sophomore. Over the next three years, Garner engaged in sexual assault against the victim at his residence and at Mustang High School.

District Attorney Tommy Humphries came up with a solution to how Canadian County commissioners formally announce six-month bid winners to the public.

Commissioners followed their legal counsel’s advice at their Monday meeting, voting 3-0 to approve a motion that makes the entire six-month bid record for Jan. 1 through June 30 a public document.

There recently had been disagreement between County Clerk Sherry Murray and commissioners on how six-month bids should be tabulated when determining and announcing the “lowest and best” bidders.