MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation's fuel supplies over the next three years, a move welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 58-year-old man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced Thursday to 18 to 45 years in prison for killing and dismembering a man whose severed head was found in a stolen vehicle the exconvict was driving about a year ago in Las Vegas.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As hundreds of students mourned together inside the University of Idaho's stadium this week, family members of four slain classmates urged them to raise their eyes from grief and focus on love and the future.

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.

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