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- CPS receives after-school program funds
- Free HIV testing available to public
- Fire chief expects burn ban to be lifted for one week
- Lady Reds trounce Douglass
- Clinton stumbles versus Douglass
Two PSO trucks, Clinton Fire Department and Clinton Police responded to a downed electrical wire resting on this truck Monday morning near the intersection of S. Seventh Street and Knox Avenue. The wire just connected to a streetlight, so nobody lost power as a result. CDN photo
The Clinton Public School District on Feb. 2 was awarded an Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Afterschool and Summer Learning and Enrichment grant.
Oklahoma was recently identified as one of seven states in the United States with the highest rural burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to an Oklahoma State Department of Health press release. The other states are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and South Carolina. OSDH is now offering free, athome HIV rapid self-tests as part of an effort to help decrease the spread of the virus.
Elementary students from Arapaho-Butler recently competed in the Custer County Soil Conservation Poster Contest. Landry Lockhart, front row at left, was the state qualifier. Other area winners included Carter Richardson, front row at right; and back row, London House, Beckett Southall and Lauryn McHenry. CDN
The Custer County burn ban expired Sunday evening. Clinton Fire Chief Brett Russell said he believes the ban will remain off until Monday, Feb. 28. This will allow the county fire chiefs to assess moisture levels throughout the county at the end of the week.
Students working on their ad designs from left are Olivia Church, Alex King and Oakley Waters with teacher Erin Funk at her desk. CDN
BEIJING (AP) — At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time.
YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.
(AP) – Krystal Guerra's Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space.