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Here are your Daily Lunch Specials.

Thursday, March 12, 2026
Here are the daily specials being offered by Clinton eating establishments:Lucille’s Roadhouse - Download the ASAP Energy app to order To-Go online!

Main headlines for the Thursday CDN

Thursday, March 12, 2026
Here's your preview of Thursday's paper- City to pay fine to DEQ for sewer issue- Museum director greets public- Pair charged after alleged vehicle burglaries- Local MGA Chapter sets up college scholarship- Full obituary for Bertha Ann “Bert” Jones- Local, state, national news, sports and moreRead...

Pair charged after alleged vehicle burglaries

Thursday, March 12, 2026
Two Clinton men have been arrested after allegedly breaking into and stealing from multiple parked vehicles in Weatherford.Weatherford police officers were dispatched around 2:12 a.m. Feb.14 to the scene at 301 W. Oklahoma Ave.
Tim Ruyle, left, and OHP Cmdr. Chance Husted donate double the amount of blood Tuesday for the Our Blood Institute blood drive at First Christian Church. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Tim Ruyle, left, and OHP Cmdr. Chance Husted donate double the amount of blood Tuesday for the Our Blood Institute blood drive at First Christian Church. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Giving blood, giving back to community

Thursday, March 12, 2026

City to pay fine to DEQ for sewer issue

Thursday, March 12, 2026
The Clinton Public Works Authority will be paying a fee of $7,500 to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) following an incident during which raw sewage leaked onto a wheat field and into the Washita River last spring.
Oklahoma Historical Society Director Chantry Banks, left, introduces the new director for the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, Cory Cart, Tuesday at the museum. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Oklahoma Historical Society Director Chantry Banks, left, introduces the new director for the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, Cory Cart, Tuesday at the museum. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Museum director greets public

Thursday, March 12, 2026
The Oklahoma Route 66 Museum has a new director that has a deep love of small communities and looks forward to the future. He met with the public Tuesday at the museum during a meet and greet.

No new trial for man convicted of killing nursing student

Thursday, March 12, 2026
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has rejected a request for a new trial for a Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration.

Fire breaks out aboard scrap metal barge on Delaware Bay

Thursday, March 12, 2026
NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay and was still burning by the evening.The U.S. Coast Guard responded after 8 a.m.
Deliah LaRue looks at a book from the Book Fair at Southwest Elementary School. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Deliah LaRue looks at a book from the Book Fair at Southwest Elementary School. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

Book worm

Thursday, March 12, 2026