ROME (AP) — Russia has lodged a formal protest with the Vatican over Pope Francis’ latest condemnation of atrocities in Ukraine, in which the pontiff blamed most of the cruelty on Chechens and other minorities in an apparent effort to spare ethnic Russian troops from criticism.

School Newcomer of Year candidates announced

Clinton Public Schools recently named its school site finalists for Newcomer of the Year. The districtwide Newcomer of the Year will be announced at 10 a.m. Dec. 21 in a ceremony to be held at Clinton Middle School.

CPS inks partnership with SWOSU

Clinton Public Schools is partnering with Southwestern Oklahoma State University to provide concurrent and dual enrollment courses for Clinton High School and surrounding high school students to be a part of.

Friendly people draw in new downtown business

Frisco Avenue has a new store featuring children’s new and nearly new clothes, toys, books and more in the Freckled Frog located at 521 Frisco Ave. The store’s owners say Clinton’s historic downtown and kind people sold them on the move here.

(AP) — Just before a midair collision that killed six at a Dallas air show, a group of historic fighter planes was told to fly ahead of a formation of bombers without any prior plan for coordinating altitude, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The report did not give a cause of the crash.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists on Wednesday accused the U.S. government of not doing enough to ensure the survival of the Rio Grande silvery minnow as drought tightens its grip on one of the longest rivers in the West.

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