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Oklahoma Municipal Management Services (OMMS) has been selected by the City of El Reno to conduct search for the city’s next city manager.The manager position opened this summer after Matt Sandidge resigned the position to enter the private sector.

An argument between a mother and daughter that started in Colorado apparently ended in El Reno last Sunday.

U.S. Sen. James Lankford recently visited Gemini Industries Inc.’s manufacturing campus in El Reno.

Next week, Oklahoma voters will be asked to decide a question that sounds remarkably technical.State Question 844 concerns the way the state reimburses schools, counties, libraries and other local governments for property taxes they don’t receive from qualifying manufacturers.

El Reno Interim Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said the investigation into the deceased body found Thursday morning is continuing.Police said the deceased is believed to be a Native American male possibly in his early to mid twenties.

Since the 2017-2018 school year, when teachers staged a walkout to protest what they described as insufficient education funding, total revenue to Oklahoma public schools has exploded.In the 2017-2018 school year, schools reported having more than $6.3 billion in revenue from all sources. 

MUSKOGEE — The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum will induct legendary Oklahoma songwriter and musician Ray Wylie Hubbard on Sept. 10 during his performance at the Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City.Born Nov. 13, 1946, in Soper, Oklahoma, Hubbard has spent more than five decades establishing...

El Reno police were investigating what was reported to be the body of a deceased man found around 5 a.m. Thursday.

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The former Irving School building was condemned last week, but not until the owner had more than a year to take action to make improvements.According to the City of El Reno, he never took serious action to bring the building, erected in 1930, up to code.