Washita Chapter NSDAR honorary regent Carol Ann Batterton is working on an ongoing rock garden project to be placed in veteran clinics. The rocks serve as a thank you to the veterans for their service. Batterton was presented rocks painted by the Arapaho-Butler High School art class taught by Angela Dupree. From left are Merry Jacobs, Jeanette Sikes, Christy Eaton and Daughters of the American Revolution Carol Batterton, Roberta Diggs and Ellena Womack.
The Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board has recently granted funding to the South Western Oklahoma Development Authority (SWODA). According to a press release from SWODA, the funds are meant “to be used to decrease the impact of the current opioid crisis. SWODA hopes to increase resources and services that save lives and decrease or prevent illicit opioid use.”
(AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars orbiting each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A knifewielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia’s capital Friday, stabbed a 7-year-old girl to death and wounded three more children and their teacher, authorities said.
(AP) — The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday.
Performed extra patrol in the 500 block of Broadway St., Butler.
(AP) – The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years.
(AP) – California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S.
Responded to a report of vandalism in the 500 block of N. 17th St.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of putting children at risk during the slow response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, while a lawyer for his co-defendant said they want to move the upcoming trial out of the small town where the massacre occurred.