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INGREDIENTS • 3 cups black beans, cooked • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil • 1/2 cup onion, chopped (about 1/2 medium onion) • 1 tablespoon chili powder • 1 teaspoon ground cumin (optional) • 1 can (14.5 ounces) Mexican style diced tomatoes • 1 cup water • 1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice (optional) • Nonfat yogurt or low fat sour cream and cilantro for garnish (optional) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Prepare beans as directed.

The Ponca City Board of Commissioners held their regular session on Monday, April 22 in the City Commission Chambers at City Hall at 5:30 pm. Mayor Homer Nicholson called the meeting to order.

Ponca City’s Annual Spring Clean-Up continues throughout the month of April with the bi-annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, April 27 from 9 am to 1 pm in the Phillips 66 parking lot at Oak Street and South Avenue.

The Ponca City Area Chamber of Commerce Ponca Politics Committee will be hosting their final legislative update forum for the current Oklahoma legislative session on Friday, April 26 from 12 pm to 1 pm in the City Commission Chambers at City Hall.

NEW YORK — Prosecutors launched the hush money trial of Donald Trump by revealing new details Monday about how they seek to prove the former president corrupted the 2016 election to bury a sex scandal, while a defense lawyer countered the payment was meant only to protect his reputation.

Russia’s “complete embrace” of North Korea could increase Kim Jong Un’s appetite for risk when it comes to threatening South Korea and exporting weapons abroad, as well as helping Pyongyang ignore Washington’s call to return to nuclear talks, a senior Biden administration official said.

China is rapidly becoming more aggressive in its rhetoric and actions across Asia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said, as Beijing turned up the heat on Washington just before Secretary of State Tony Blinken heads to the country for a high-stakes visit.

Courtesy of Magic City Books in Tulsa; Best of Books in Edmond; Brace Books in Ponca City; and Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City Fiction 1. “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books) 2.