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On Monday the Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) and Dobson Fiber launched eight projects aimed at “high-speed internet expansion in rural Oklahoma.” The cost of the projects will total $17.3 million with $11.6 million of the funding coming from “federal grants administered by the OBO”; and should “connect 1,829 homes and businesses with broadband internet using fiber optic technology.” In addition to Custer County, the projects will target the counties of Atoka, Beckham, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Muskogee, and Washita.
Ryan Butterfield with PSO works on repairing a blown fuse Monday near Modelle Avenue and Gary Boulevard that left several buildings in the area without power for a short time.
The annual Festival of Lights and the Chocolate Festival will be returning Dec. 3 to downtown Clinton.
Clinton Regional Hospital auxiliary volunteer Lavonne Holmes, left, and Debra Mendez, director of volunteers, puts the finishing touches on one of the Christmas trees at the hospital. The auxiliary sold four trees to be decorated to local businesses for $200 each and four wreathes for $75 each. Mendez said all of the proceeds go back to the hospital. She said in the last 10 years the auxiliary has raised $272,778 for the hospital.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve its Robocall Mitigation Database that could reduce illegal robocalls. He is working with 46 other attorneys general to close a loophole in the database that allows bad actors to have access to the U.S. telephone network.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal’s death.
(AP) – Poultry on a commercial farm in England have been infected with the bird flu virus, the U.K. government said Sunday.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.