The Clinton Regional Hospital Authority met Wednesday to discuss a few items of business and one particularly good bit of news: the hospital is cash positive as of this month and will not need to turn to the City of Clinton for assistance for January.

Let there be light

Donald Burgess uses a ladder to reach the high ceilings while installing the covering for some of the lights Thursday morning in the new Clinton Middle School building.

Myra Whitney, left, receives help signing up for the 2026 WPLS Winter Reading Challenge from Librarian Madison Wright at the Clinton Public Library. CDN | Micah Ashcraft

Although many see the back nine of the winter season as nothing more than waiting for spring to arrive, Western Plains Library System is taking the time to encourage adults to read books with its 2026 WPLS Winter Reading Challenge.

A table full of contraband seized by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2025. CDN | Courtesy photo

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections seized millions of dollars in contraband during 2025 as part of ongoing efforts to protect staff, inmates and the public and to disrupt illegal activity inside state correctional facilities.

Responded to a report of a physical domestic in the area of S. 28th St. and Hayes Ave.

(AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China’s grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters and missiles.

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