Jiles Southall steps on home plate and scores a run during A-B’s home win over Empire Friday to win the regional championship. CDN | Sam Goodwyn
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Owen Lavigne stands in his Eagle Scout uniform, decorated with more than 50 badges and various awards near Custer City. CDN | Courtesy photo
Big changes are coming for the old fire station located at Gary Boulevard, as it is expected to be transformed into a welcome center thanks to a state grant approved last week. CDN | Staff Photo
Elizebeth Wilson acts out the story of Dolly Sauter at the 2026 Spring Cemetery Walk at the Clinton Cemetery. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

News

FRIDAY DAY SHIFT Responded to a report of a verbal domestic in the 200 block of S. 3rd St.

Big changes are coming for the old fire station located at Gary Boulevard, as it is expected to be transformed into a welcome center thanks to a state grant approved last week. CDN | Staff Photo

New life is expected to be poured into a long dormant City of Clinton asset, as the old fire station on Gary Boulvevard has been approved for a Route 66 Revitalization Grant Program grant.

Sports

Jiles Southall steps on home plate and scores a run during A-B’s home win over Empire Friday to win the regional championship. CDN | Sam Goodwyn

With the Arapaho-Butler Indians baseball team only needing to win against Empire Friday to advance, the Indians (23-3) took down the Bulldogs 11-0 behind a no-hitter in five innings from Jiles Southall.

Arapaho-Butler’s Kaden Waldrop watches the ball after pitching in the Indians’ win over Wayne to open the Class A Regional Tournament Thursday at home. CDN | Sam Goodwyn

In the first day of the Class A Regional Tournament, the Arapaho-Butler Indians (21-3) beat Wayne 17-0 and behind Luke Bailey’s no hitter, they took down Empire 10-0 Thursday on their home field to set up a chance to advance to state Friday.

Columns & Opinions

Last week, we went out to celebrate with my oldest and most curmudgeonly friend, Andrew.

President Trump told reporters, “I’ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most ... they’re the ones that they go after,” after the latest attempt on his life at the White House correspondents’ dinner last weekend. “And I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot.”

Obituaries

Graveside services for Jimmy Lynn Burden, 69, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, in the Clinton Cemetery.

Thomas Dean Lunsford, age 39, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was born March 9, 1987, in Clinton, Oklahoma, to Thomas Leonard and Dawn (Franklin) Lunsford.