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An online consumer information company recently rated Oklahoma’s roads among the bottom third in the nation for 2021.
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According to the most recent data from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office, 396 people were killed in alcohol and/or drug-related crashes in Oklahoma last year, accounting for more than 60 percent of traffic crash fatalities in Oklahoma.
Read moreBusiness leaders should publicly focus on racial issues in the workplace, or they risk being viewed as opponents of racial progress, a speaker at a recent program sponsored by Paycom told attendees.
Read moreFollowing are reports recently filed by members of the Hennessey Police Department:
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Kingfisher County has maintained its 2020 status as the second most generous county in the state and close to the top 10% most giving nationwide.
Read moreTwo reports last week confirmed the presence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, the highly contagious strain that is reportedly responsible for driving spikes in infection across the country.
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A popular Twitter post by an Oklahoma City meteoroligist circulating last week illustrated his prediction for the warmest Christmas on record with a state temperature map entitled “White Christmas Definitely No.” Record temperatures may be a news story, but no white Christmas is not much of a surprise. Kingfisher High School sophomore Eli Johnson, 16, right, was 4 years old the one and only time he woke up to Christmas morning snow (left, a photo taken by his dad Jeff and published in the Times & Free Press in 2009). In fact, the average Christmas Day high temperature for Kingfisher for the past 10 years is 52.1. Even if the predicted 73 degree high for Saturday materializes in Kingfisher, it’s still a degree cooler than Christmas Day 2016. [Provided Photos]
Read moreKingfisher County ad valorem tax rolls opened for collection last week.
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