A $576,000 purchase for eight new Custer County Sheriff’s Office vehicles using the county’s ARPA funds was approved by commissioners during their regular Monday meeting.
Convicted aggravated sex offender Dusty Benavidez, 39, of Hollis, has a Custer County warrant for his arrest issued Jan. 10 on one count of a sex offender unlawfully loitering within safety zones or state parks and another for illegal entry into a state park.
Oklahoma State University recently released its President’s Honor Roll and Dean’s Honor Roll list, and several area students were recognized for succeeding in the classroom this past fall semester.
(AP) — Anyone who's bought food, paid rent or looked for a used car recently has come up against the billowing inflation that has engulfed the U.S. economy.
(AP) — Democrats braced for disaster when state legislatures began redrawing congressional maps, fearing that Republican dominance of statehouses would tilt power away from them for the next decade.
(AP) – World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they warn of difficult weeks ahead and the possibility of another, more dangerous variant arising.
(AP) — Raymond Washburn, a blind man who was credited with helping rescue five people from the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, has died. He was 75.


