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- Council votes to condemn properties

- Christmas Connection set up

- Production really is ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’

- Two Lady Indians sign to play college softball

Council votes to condemn properties

At the regular meeting of the Clinton City Council held Tuesday evening, the council was presented with two properties that were proposed to be condemned by the City.

When Lisa Wandrie was growing up in Cordell her family did not have a lot of money and still remembers the new coat that was donated to her.

Production really is ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’

Southwest Playhouse’s upcoming production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” based on the book of the same name by Barbara Robinson and directed by Christopher Curtis, stands out as an example of dedication and authenticity.

CHILI, N.Y. (AP) — A bus with more than two dozen passengers aboard rolled over on a highway in upstate New York on Thursday morning, critically injuring one person and sending others to hospitals, police said.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping — because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided over his case.

(AP) — The world’s only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney and marshy wetlands bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico on the Florida Keys. For years, their biggest threat was being struck by vehicles speeding along U.S. Highway 1 or local roads.

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