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News Staff
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
National• Maryland-based Constellation Energy signs a $1 billion deal to provide nuclear power and energy efficiency services to 13 federal agencies, marking the first time the U.S. has used a major energy purchase to support nuclear power as a clean energy source.

Rig Report: State, U.S. rig counts unchanged for second week

News Staff
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
From staff reports Drilling rig activity in the United States remained mostly unchanged in the past week with a count of 589 rigs, according to the most recent Rig Report from Baker Hughes Co. It also showed Oklahoma’s count of 43 rigs was unchanged from the Dec. 27 week to Jan. 3.
Bryanna Ramos | Southwest Ledger The C. Carter Crane Center, a Lawton homeless shelter, has been remodeled and cleaned and provides shelter and meals for “an average of 15 people each evening,” Director Brenda Spencer-Ragland told the City Council.

Bryanna Ramos | Southwest Ledger The C. Carter Crane Center, a Lawton homeless shelter, has been remodeled and cleaned and provides shelter and meals for “an average of 15 people each evening,” Director Brenda Spencer-Ragland told the City Council.

Multiple efforts underway in Lawton to relieve complex homeless issue

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Volunteers fanned out across cities, towns and rural areas last January to count as many homeless people in America that they could find. Those results, released on December 27, were bleak. The number of homeless people in the U.S. had climbed to the highest level on record: 771,000.
Brayden Thomas | Southwest Ledger Wagoner County commissioners have agreed to a $13.5 million out-of-court settlement of a civil rights lawsuit against Sheriff Chris Elliott over the June 2, 2021, death of Angela Lynn Liggans. Liggans, a woman with Type 1 diabetes, was incarcerated in the county jail from the time of her May 17, 2021, arrest until the time of her death.

Brayden Thomas | Southwest Ledger Wagoner County commissioners have agreed to a $13.5 million out-of-court settlement of a civil rights lawsuit against Sheriff Chris Elliott over the June 2, 2021, death of Angela Lynn Liggans. Liggans, a woman with Type 1 diabetes, was incarcerated in the county jail from the time of her May 17, 2021, arrest until the time of her death.

Wagoner County residents vote Feb. 11 on sales tax to retire $13.5M lawsuit settlement

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Wagoner County commissioners agreed to an out-ofcourt settlement of a civil rights lawsuit against Sheriff Chris Elliott over the death of a Type 1 diabetic woman in the county jail. The cost: $13.5 million.
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