Rain did not keep young anglers away from the 2025 Mary K. Ashbrook Kids Fishing Derby at Lake El Reno over the weekend.

The event is hosted by the El Reno Sportsman’s Club.

El Reno police are asking the public to help if anyone has information about a shooting that took place Friday night. 

Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said officers responded to a call about 11:40 about gunshots being fired in the area of North Grand and West Woodson. 

Emergency personnel responded and located one adult male victim suffering from what is believed to be a gunshot wound.

This man, who was not identified, was taken to a local medical center for further treatment of a non-life-threatening injury. 

A jury found a Yukon man guilty last week of obstructing a deputy during an unusual 2023 interaction in the tiny lobby of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office.

After three days of conflicting witness testimony and more than two hours of deliberation, jurors determined Charles Bishop III had obstructed Lt. Ed Purcer on Sept. 15, 2023. During the incident, Bishop verbally interjected as deputies arrested a separate person, Madison Hernandez, while Bishop was waiting on an open records request.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s tribal nations contributed $23.4 billion to the state’s economy in 2023, according to a study released last week.   

Over 55,000 Oklahomans were directly employed by tribes and nearly 140,000 jobs were supported for both tribal citizens and non-citizens, the tribal-backed study found. This totals more than $7.8 billion in wages and benefits in 2023.