(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.
Responded to a report of a physical domestic in the area of S. 28th St. and Hayes Ave.
Responded to an animal call in the area of U.S. Highway 183 and State Highway 47, Custer City.
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.
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.
Charges have been filed against a Clinton man after an alleged stabbing.
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.
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.
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- 2026 Business and Professional Honor Roll
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- Positives, negatives addressed
- Reds finish off second-half comeback in win