The Clinton Regional Hospital remains closed more than half a year from when its doors first shut on Jan. 1 sending City leaders on a journey filled with twists and turns, but now City Manager Robert Johnston believes the hospital is closer than it has ever been to reopening.

Filing opens 8 a.m. Monday at the Custer County Election Board located at 633 N. Sixth St. in Clinton for the election of Clinton City Council seats in Ward 1 and Ward 3. The filing period will end at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Tony Waylon Leeper and Madyson Hunter Faith Walker Chad Harold Lierle and Adriana Maria Tobon Tre’don Parker and Jessica Dianna Hobbs Dalton John Denney and Katelyn Nicole Gartrell Kody Ty Silas and Lynlea Raquel Hunter

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A former undersheriff was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for repeatedly striking a handcuffed arrestee in 2017.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court threw out a first-degree murder conviction because of a sexual relationship between the judge and a prosecutor.

X-ray vision

Mad Science performer Gideon Morris, of Oklahoma City, displays x-ray images during his show at the Clinton Public Library.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday approved the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon allow American women and girls to obtain contraceptive medications as easily as they buy aspirin and eyedrops.

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