Eastern Oklahoma State College meat judging team members, from left, Eli Whitney, Dylan Neely, Robert Kincade, coach Jade Edwards, Averie Bain, Bailyn Hill and Gracie Ward pose with their awards. CDN | Courtesy photo

The Eastern Oklahoma State College meat judging team earned top honors at the Beef Empire Days contest, held at Tyson Fresh Meats in Holcomb, Kan., and Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kan. Eastern claimed the first place overall team award at the event to begin its fall season.

Puzzle time

George Goret enjoys spending time in the rec room at the Clinton branch of the Oklahoma Veterans Center.

(AP) — An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year.

Mynor Neftali Salazar Reyes and Katherine Carolina Ramirez Santos Jeremiah J.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans jail escapee Derrick Groves, who spent nearly five months on the run before being captured in Georgia, agreed to be returned to Louisiana in a Thursday court appearance.

CDN | Micah Ashcraft

Jiovanny Franco, left, and Jerry Bencomo move one of the gold panels to install on outside walls at the site of the new Clinton Middle School building.

Custer County Clerk Melissa Graham pulls from the records in the Custer County Archives, housed in the former county jail after recent renovation, at the Custer County Courthouse. CDN | Shiann Dawson

County Clerk Melissa Graham has early mornings at the Custer County Courthouse. “I come in early so I can do things without being interrupted, because it is a very open office and people are in here a lot. I get here usually between 6 and 6:15 a.m., and that’s my time to catch up on whatever’s on my desk,” she said. This includes signing purchase orders and returning emails in the quiet, before the rush of the day starts.

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