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After five years as a Northern Oklahoma College regent, Ponca City’s Jodi Cline chose not to seek another five-year term. At her final meeting on June 14, president Dr.

Under the guise of protecting oil and gas industry jobs, Oklahoma elected officials have signed onto a playbook being run by an out-of-state network of conservative groups who have set their sights on normally staid state treasurer’s offices and pension funds.

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The Child Development Center, located at 702 E. Grand, has a fresh new look, thanks to the help of local artist, Red Dirt Rosie. The new mural on their building, facing Grand, shows off an array of different children following their dreams.

North Korea test-fired two shortrange ballistic missiles Thursday in its first such launch in about two months, which came after it failed in late May to put a spy satellite into orbit. The missiles were launched as the US and South Korea ended live-fire drills this week near the border with North Korea, which were overseen by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and drew the ire of Kim Jong Un’s regime.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the landmark federal adoption law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families. By a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected a constitutional challenge from a white Texas couple and Texas state attorneys who contended the adoption preferences for Native Americans amounted to unconstitutional discrimination based on race.