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6 days ago | stwnewspress.com | Clifton Adcock

After a years-long legal battle with some of the world’s largest poultry producers over pollutants in one of Oklahoma’s most important waterways, the state attorney general still thinks he can strike a deal with the powerful industry. Oklahoma is still waiting on a ruling in a two-decade-old lawsuit that could have far-reaching consequences for the Illinois River and the surrounding region. But the parties could still reach a settlement outside of court.

1 week ago | stwnewspress.com | Carson Gerber

College athletics are set for a seismic shakeup. In less than three weeks, Division I athletic programs around the nation for the first time will begin directly paying players, transforming athletic departments and college leagues into semi-professional enterprises. kAm%96 492?86 4@>6D 27E6C 2 7656C2= ;F586 @?

1 week ago | stwnewspress.com | Janelle Stecklein

It’s become clear that Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. James Lankford has apparently taken one too many sips of the spiked, D.C.-flavored Kool-Aid. He’s either become so addicted to the ambrosia served by the Washington elites, or he’s been spending too much time cocooned in our nation’s capital to be in touch with what’s happening at home. kAmq642FD6 :E’D 4=62C E96C6’D 2 5:D4@??64E 36EH66? E96 #6AF3=:42? |65:42:5 AC@A282?52 96’D 366?

1 week ago | stwnewspress.com | Christina A. Cassidy |Scott Bauer

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2 weeks ago | stwnewspress.com | Kevin Hassler

ENID, Okla. — Attendees at an Enid Chautauqua 2025 performance Wednesday night, June 11, 2025, heard about the plight of Native Americans during the 1920s. Scholar Selene Phillips portrayed Zitkala-Sa, a Yankton Dakota writer, educator and political activist, during the second evening performance of “Anything Goes: America in the Roaring Twenties” in the Northwestern Oklahoma State University-Enid commons area. Video Player is loading.