Here's your preview of Tuesday's paper

- Truck theft victim given wild ride

- Elk City driver hits pedestrian

- Commissioners cover various items

- Clinton’s Howell earns Rubio Award at banquet

- Full obituary for Dana Lee West, Weldon Ray Sawatzky

(AP) — A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service truck for three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which provided western settlers land for farms.

(AP) — Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.

On the money

Clinton Regional Hospital CEO Len Lacefield’s watery fate is sealed as Aaron Sawatzky drills the target area of the dunk tank last Friday as the CRH staff celebrated “Hospital Week.”

Monday’s meeting of the Custer County Board of Commissioners proved to be a speedy one with not a lot on the agenda to cover.

Clinton Newcommer of Year

Michael Deatherage, center, was presented Friday with the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Clinton Middle School Auditorium. From left are CMS Principal Gene Ray, Supt. Tyler Bridges, Deatherage, CMS Asst. Principal Tanner Wheeler, and Asst. Sup. Nathan Meget.

CHS Class of 2025

Clinton High School seniors were all smiles Friday at graduation at McLain Rogers Park. Pictured, from left, are Rufus Whiteman-Ellis, Kari Begay and AJ Reynolds.

Seeing his pickup backing out of the bank parking lot with another man behind the wheel, Jimmy Funk let instinct take over and jumped onto the flatbed of his F250 to try and stop the individual from stealing his ride.

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