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OKLAHOMA CITY - A response has been filed at the Oklahoma Supreme Court to El Reno’s appeal in a land annexation case.Attorney Austin L. Hamm of Box Law Group signed the Jan. 9 Response to Petition in Error asking justices to sustain a Canadian County District Court ruling invalidating most of the...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Education committee leaders in the Oklahoma Legislature have put literacy laws at the forefront of their yearly policy goals, further entrenching childhood reading as a top focus for the 2026 legislative session.Only 26 percent of Oklahoma public school students made a proficient...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust announced millions in grants Wednesday to expand patient access to trained doctors and cancer treatments.

LAWSUITSCapital One N.A. vs. Stanley Staton for $3,621.44 to pay a debt plus interest and costs.Capital One N.A. vs. Sandra Hood for $3,836.33 to pay a debt plus interest and costs.Covington Credit Inc. vs. Cedric Gaines for $2,705.67 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.HS...

El Reno City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to give the owner of an historic building in the downtown 30 days to bring a plan forward to correct issues, some considered matters of public safety.The city will also move to stabilize an area of the building if the owner does not do it soon.

El Reno High School educator Becky Lockler has been named the 2026 winner of the statewide William D. Pennington Award for Outstanding Social Studies Teacher.

Redlands Community College plans to build the first major on-campus sports venue in more than two decades.Last week, RCC regents voted to use the State Master Lease Program to fund construction of a new artificial turf soccer field that will be surrounded by a regulation-sized eight-lane track.The...

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

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...