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Neither House Majority Leader Mike Sanders nor Sen. Darcy Jech were happy with the way the budgetary standoff with Gov. Kevin Stitt played out last week, but both said their votes to override were the right response to Stitt’s vetoes.
Read moreKingfisher County Sheriff Dennis Banther said his office has nearly completed its investigation of an altercation in rural Hennessey last Saturday that ended with an Enid man shot dead and a Guthrie man hospitalized with injuries sustained in a rollover collision.
Read moreA bill requiring dyslexia screening for early elementary students not reading on grade level passed the Senate last Wednesday and heads to the governor’s desk to await being signed into law.
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An added $5 per hour in hazard pay was approved for Hennessey school cooks, custodians, secretaries, business office personnel and other hourly employees required to work March 23- May 8.
Read moreA Hennessey bar owner asked town board members if he was going to have trouble with the law if he couldn’t control customers who don’t practice social distancing when he reopens on Friday.
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The COVID-19 pandemic shutdown knocked May sales tax checks for all county municipalities, Kingfisher County and the state of Oklahoma tumbling.
Read moreThe Center of Family Love has experienced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on its main campus in Okarche.
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Two intellectually disabled brothers, ages 11 and 13, and an older sibling were removed from a mobile home northwest of Kingfisher and placed in emergency Department of Human Services custody based on reports that the two brothers sometimes were kept in a cage in the closet, Kingfisher County Sheriff Dennis Banther said.
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