A two-and half hour special meeting of the El Reno School Board last week focused on training members in the proper methods to conduct the search for the district’s next superintendent.

The meeting was conducted by the Oklahoma State School Board Association, hired by the district in May to spearhead the search for Craig McVay’s successor.

A semi reportedly struck this pole at a former convenience store on Rock Island, just south of Wade last weekend.

Security video from Rock Island Credit Union shows the truck striking the pole around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Calls to the number posted on the vacant building were not returned.

The pole is hanging over the alley between the vacant store and the credit union, which serves as an entrance to the drive-thru for the credit union.

A fight injured a half dozen inmates early Monday at the Canadian County Jail after a power outage, Sheriff Chris West said.

Shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Sept. 6, members of the Canadian County Special Operations Team were activated to assist with an altercation in the county jail.

The incident reportedly involved about 15 to 20 inmates.

Etta Dale Junior High teacher Chip Whitworth discusses with his students a video shot in 2001 of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.

Whitworth teaches a Current Events class and students were learning about the attacks which killed 2,977 Americans and injured more than 25,000.

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in U.S. history.

(Courtesy Photo/Brooke Robertson)