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Sports
In the first game back from winter break, both Clinton basketball teams headed into enemy territory Tuesday for the first edition of the “Custer County Conflict” on the hardwood this year, as each team took on Weatherford.
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Columns & Opinions
Axios calls Congress “The worst good-paying job in America.” The Atlantic headlines, “House Republicans Aren’t Having Any Fun.” And USA Today reports: “Why quitting is all the rage in DC.”
DEAR HARRIETTE: My 19-year-old daughter is insecure about how she looks. She cries all the time and blames me for her appearance. I have no clue how to help her because every time I say that she is beautiful, she says I’m only saying that because I’m her mother. She is surrounded by social media images, unrealistic beauty standards and constant comparisons, and I fear that these influences have shaped how she sees herself way more than I ever could.
Obituaries
Funeral services for Jerry Tom Rice, 90, of Mustang, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, at Lakehoma Church of Christ in Mustang.
Noel Labastida, age 58, of Clinton, Oklahoma, was born April 26, 1967, in Jiliapan, Hidalgo, Mexico, to Mauricio and Esther (Andrade) Labastida, and passed away peacefully at his Clinton home on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025.