Today In History
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Today is Saturday, Oct. 31, the 305th day of 2020.
October 2020
GOP increasingly worried about losing Senate control
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WASHINGTON — Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst won her Senate seat and Republican Party stardom six years ago on a promise to go to Washington and “make ‘em squeal,” just like the pigs she castrated on her family farm growing up.
An exercise in cosmic horror: The Thing
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To conclude our month long look at horror cinema, let us take a look at my personal favorite horror film: John Carpenter’s The Thing. The Thing is a 1982 movie that serves as both an adaptation of the 1938 John W.
The staff at Community National Bank
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The staff at Community National Bank in Ponca City decided to go a bit “exotic” with their group costumes. The gang is all there, with Joe, Carole, and all the cool cats and kittens wishing Ponca City a safe and Happy Halloween! Courtesy photo.
Wildcats to face Bixby; Muskogee game cancelled
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Facing what undoubtedly is their biggest challenge of the year, the Ponca City Wildcats are preparing for Friday’s game against the Bixby Spartans in Bixby. It will be the final regular season game for the Wildcats since they received word earlier this week that the Nov.
Ohio, once seen as Trump territory, emerges as a battleground
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WESTLAKE, Ohio — For Democrats in Ohio, the recent years have been bleak. President Donald Trump won the Buckeye State by a healthy 8-percentage-point margin in 2016, and two years later the blue wave in the nation’s midterm elections barely made a splash here. Conventional wisdom placed the state firmly outside contention for this year’s presidential race.
Police Blotter
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Domestic— A caller requested an officer to the 300 block of south Palm on Wednesday at 1:25 a.m. in reference to a physical domestic that had occurred with an ex. A report was taken and a warrant request was made for the subject.
Letter to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor Over my ten years as your District Attorney I could not help but notice the number of people who continue to commit crimes over and over again. With the Walt releases currently being given by the Pardon and Parole Board and the commutations signed by the Governor, it seems that people who commit these crimes spend only a few months in jail before being released.
Daily Bible Thought
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”— Romans 8:15
Donald Trump Is Again Going to Win
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Washington -- I do not like being wrong. Looking back on the journalism of the last few years, I have concluded this makes me one weird journalist. Most journalists -- in fact, most commentators -- seem to prefer to be wrong. Spectacularly, melodramatically wrong.