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Lithium refinery firm makes offering of shares

News Staff

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

From staff reports Stardust Power, the company that broke ground recently for a $1.2 billion lithium refinery at Muskogee, announced a public offering for the purchase and sale of up to more than 4.7 million shares of common stock.

Certified Angus Beef Prime show remarkable increase in sales, supply

Ron Hays Oklahoma Farm Report

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Earlier this month, during Cattlemen’s Congress, Bruce Cobb, Executive Vice President of Production for Certified Angus Beef, discussed the quality improvements in beef, the sky-high demand, and the impending herd rebuild and what it will do for the beef industry.

Provided Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas, left, speaks with Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays. Among his other congressional duties, Lucas, former Ag Committee Chairman, was named Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology for the 119th Congress.

Lucas Discusses Ag Future Amid Political Transformation

Ron Hays Oklahoma Farm Report

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas (R-03), who formerly chaired the Ag Committee, recently cited the many governmental changes with the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, the Republican majority trifecta, and the new Congress.

Hughes Co. ranch manager arrested for larceny of livestock

News Staff

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

From staff reports A 60-year-old Stuart, Oklahoma, man was arrested Jan. 8 by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Rangers Cody Hyde and Gavin Gatrell.Darrel Bernard Morris now faces 83 felony charges of larceny of livestock for unlawfully selling cattle owned by his employer.

Charge against Kiowa County cattleman amended to maiming

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

HOBART – The felony charge filed against a Kiowa County cattleman accused of the brutal beating of an elderly Kiowa County landowner has been amended to maiming.

FISTA moving forward with anechoic chamber

Eric Swanson Southwest Ledger

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

LAWTON – The FISTA Development Trust Authority is moving forward with plans to install an anechoic chamber – a soundproof room for testing electronic devices against regulatory standards – at the FISTA Innovation Park.The authority voted unanimously Jan.

AP photo | Mark Schiefeibein, Pool President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One en route to Florida at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 25,2025.

Top Trump administration officials in Chicago for start of immigration enforcement crackdown

News Staff

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

CHICAGO (AP) — Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of rampedup immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.

Westwin files federal lawsuit against Canadian corporation, claiming fraud

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

OKLAHOMA CITY – Westwin Elements Inc., “an Oklahoma company founded to help solve America’s critical minerals crisis,” filed a lawsuit earlier this month accusing a Canadian corporation and four of its principal officers of committing a multimillion- dollar fraud.

Lawton mayor’s goal is to ‘Throttle Up’ and ‘Thrive in ’25’

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Lawton City Council promised “More in ’24,” and delivered on that vow. Last year “was the most active and transformative in the history of our city,” Mayor Stan Booker said.Nevertheless, in his third and final term, Booker envisions more.

Lawton Kids First Initiative started with a vacant house fire

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Lawton’s Kids First Initiative, intended to make neighborhoods safe and clean for the town’s children, was sparked by break-ins and a f ire at an abandoned house.

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