Nicotine addict needs help quitting

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have been struggling with nicotine addiction for a long time. I recently moved back in with my family and thought that now would be an excellent opportunity to quit, as I know they would not approve of my habit anyway.

Scratching the Teflon Prince

Is Ron DeSantis qualified to be president?

Fixing medical marijuana mess

Oklahoma legislators are doing a good job this session to clean up the wide array of problems after voters approved medical marijuana in 2018.Once approved, there was a rapid acceleration of marijuana growing operations in western Oklahoma and across the state.According to the Oklahoma Office of...

OK courts right to abortion

(AP) — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a portion of the state’s near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abortion when pregnancy risks their health, not just in a medical emergency.It was a narrow win for abortion rights advocates since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down...

Autism now more common among Black, Hispanic kids

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.Among all U.S. 8-year-olds, 1 in 36 had autism in 2020, the CDC estimated.

Removing schnetka from oven

Removing schnetka from oven

CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO

30 YEARS AGOLes Amie Bridge Club met in the Oakwood Room of the Holiday Inn with hostesses Mrs.Ethel Guthrie and Mrs. Florence Cook.Mrs. R.G. Wilson won high, Mrs. Adell Simpson second, Mrs. Lloyd Turner low, and Mrs. Cecil Pettle won bingo.Others attending included Mrs. Barbara Darnell, Mrs.J.W....

ONG honors local employees for their years of service

ONG honors local employees for their years of service

TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1634, the first English colonists arrived at St. Clement’s Island in Maryland to establish the settlement of St. Mary’s.In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.In 1965, a 50-mile civil rights march led by Martin Luther King...

Sotheby's hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-yearold Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block...