River car

Authorities discovered this vehicle around 11:30 a.m. Monday in the Washita River near the intersection of County Road 1070 and County Road 2290 east of Clinton. The vehicle had been reported stolen and was unoccupied when it was dumped in the river. CDN photo

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor announced plans Monday to lift the statewide CO- VID-19 mask requirement in schools a month from now because of the rapid easing of the omicron surge, calling the move “a huge step back to normalcy for our kids.”

Made for excellence

Arapaho-Butler FFA students who participated in the 2021 Made For Excellence Conference from left are Orsan Jubara, Jordan Lambeth, Lillian Roush, Katherine Meacham, Danni Brinkley, Annabelle Rose, Katelyn Garibay, and PiperRilee Sawatzky.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama welcomes visitors at the “First White House of the Confederacy,” a historic home next to the state Capitol where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived with his family in the early months of the Civil War.

(AP) – From her office in Birmingham, Alabama, DeJuana Thompson looks across the street and sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb in 1963 killed four young Black girls.

Responded to a medical assist in the 1700 block of Littell Ave.

Formerly absent dad doesn’t acknowledge past

DEAR HARRIETTE: Growing up, I never really knew my biological father – aside from what my grandparents would tell me. When I was 7, my mother remarried, and my stepfather has been my daddy ever since. Now, as an adult, my biological father has reentered my life and is an active granddad to my kids. This is wonderful, but he often speaks as if he raised me, and ignores the fact that he missed over 20 years of my life. How can I respectfully ask him not to do that? – Daddy Issues

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