Through all the craziness of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of El Reno has something positive to cheer about when it comes to professional sports.

Cameron Hill, a native and graduate of both El Reno High and Redlands Community College, was named to the final 30-man roster for the Cleveland Indians.

“I’m on cloud nine. I’m extremely proud of Cameron knowing everything that he has been through and to stick with it and fight back and prove himself again.

An internal White House report about states in the so-called red zone for COVID-19 includes Oklahoma and recommends mandating masks and closing bars and gyms in localized areas where infections are spreading rapidly.

A former Yukon resident was executed last week for his role in the 1996 torture and murder of a family in Arkansas.

Daniel Lee Lewis was put to death at 7:08 a.m. July 14 at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

His death came almost 24 hours after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., had halted the execution.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in early last Tuesday, clearing the way for the execution to proceed.

Lewis is the first person executed by the U.S. government since 2003.

A Yukon man was arrested last week after a family member told authorities he had been having sex with her child for more than a year. The alleged assaults took place at a home in El Reno.

Michael Arthur Brooks, 25, was arrested on allegations of sodomy and lewd acts with a child under 16.

Sheriff Chris West said the arrest came after the child’s mother contacted authorities on July 10 to report the crimes, which allegedly had been going on since Halloween.