The Oklahoma Department of Corrections seized millions of dollars in contraband during 2025 as part of ongoing efforts to protect staff, inmates and the public and to disrupt illegal activity inside state correctional facilities.
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As he trudges through the back half of the schedule with the Clinton Reds basketball team, senior Ronnie Redshin looks more and more toward his future.
(AP) – John Harbaugh and the New York Giants are working on an agreement team’s head coach, two people with knowledge of the decision said early Thursday morning.
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Asked to judge a woman “caught in the act of adultery,” the Gospel of John says Jesus stooped, wrote something in the dust, then told her accusers: “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Dear Doctors: My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. We were worried that it was going to turn into a bad respiratory illness, but it stayed in her nose and throat. That’s a common cold, right? Why is having a cold so different from when you get the flu?
Obituaries
Albert Herbert Korfman was born January 8, 1930 to Fred and Clara (Matthes) Korfman at the family home near Anthon, Oklahoma. Albert attended Anthon schools the first 8 years and then moved in with his sister Eva and her husband D.H. and attended school at Arapaho for one year. He eventually moved back home to help his mother with the farming until he started working at various jobs in Clinton. He worked as a dishwasher, helped deliver furniture, drove the school bus for Independence Schools and worked at a produce warehouse. He met his future wife Anna Barber through a mutual friend Wayne Dickerson (he was dating Anna’s sister Nathlyn). Their first date was a trip to the state fair. They got married April 2, 1950. Of that marriage three children were born, Sheryl Carver of Guymon, Ok; Larry Korfman of Weatherford, OK and Alberta Bentley of Edmond, OK. They were married 43 years until her passing in May of 1993.
Levi Lee Roque was born on January 10, 2026, and on that same day, he gained his wings and went to be with the Lord.