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Kiowa County voters approve sales tax for Elkview General Hospital

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

HOBART – Kiowa County voters decided overwhelmingly on Tuesday to support a 1.5-cent sales tax that will keep Elkview General Hospital operating for the next 25 years.

Senate bill would allow boards to make school safety decisions

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to give local school boards more leniency in deciding how best to protect their districts will be up for consideration before the Senate Education Committee this month. Senate Bill 1767 by Sen.

Jessica Garvin

Southwest Oklahoma Legislative Update: Senate

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – Four southwest Oklahoma senators filed a total of 135 bills by the Jan. 18 deadline and, of those, the majority have seen recent action during the Second Session of the 59th Legislature.

Drummond supports FTC proposal to outlaw ‘junk fees’

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is lending his voice in support of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.

Four Chinese nationals linked to Maramec, Mulhall illicit marijuana farms plead guilty

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – Four of the five Chinese individuals linked to marijuana farms in Maramec and Mulhall pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering conspiracy. Two of the four were sentenced, but one of them fled the jurisdiction and has remained at-large for six months.

Chinese national admits killing 4 near Hennessey

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

KINGFISHER – The Chinese national identified on video and by witnesses as the killer of four people at a marijuana farm near Hennessey pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This is a bird’s-eye view of the Polaris Technologies 200-megawatt data center under construction on a 40-acre site in Muskogee. Provided

Crypto mining center under construction at Muskogee

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

MUSKOGEE – Polaris Technologies officials announced recently that the company is investing $100 million to construct a 200-megawatt Bitcoin mining facility at Port Muskogee’s John T. Griffin Industrial Park. This will be M uskogee’s first operational data center.

Regulators approve 3 AOG customer retention programs

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – Customer retention programs to be administered by Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp. for the next three years were approved unanimously by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Feb. 15.

Reviewing “The Summer of 1876 : Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West”

News Staff

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

“The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West,” a book that often reads like a page turning novel, is a m ust have for history buffs and any Oklahoman with an interest in the Wild West. Full disclosure, I come from an Old West family.

Energy Briefs: LEDs, LNG, ESG, fracking, royalties...

News Staff

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Stillwater streetlights The City of Stillwater is the latest to join the movement toward LED streetlights. Stillwater Electric Utility began installing the first of 4,400 fixtures earlier this month, and the project is expected to take nearly two years to complete.

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