WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his 1-monthold son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.

(AP) — The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on fossil fuels.

Memorial Day is a time for people to remember the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives to protect the ideals, freedoms, and people of the nation.

The Clinton Public Schools Board of Education held its first meeting to go over applicants for the soon to be vacated superintendent position Wednesday afternoon. The opening is in place due to Tyler Bridges accepting the same position at Stillwater Public Schools.

Local loggers

Aristo Sandoval throws down a piece of a branch after trimming it from a tree Wednesday behind a house on Sixth Street. 

GENEVA (AP) — Not quite a flying cow, but almost: Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened a possible landslide from an Alpine mountainside overhead. One puzzled bovine got a lift down by helicopter.

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