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Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Sweet Tooth, its upcoming drama series adaptation based on characters created for DC Vertigo by Jeff Lemire. The series comes from Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey's Team Downey and stars Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar and Will Forte, with James Brolin as the voice of the narrator. Sweet Tooth follows the adventures of Gus (Convery) — part deer, part boy — who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged...

Troopers are investigating a crash that claimed the lives of two adults and two children in Custer County.

The Elk City Commission is scheduled to meet in regular session Wednesday afternoon.

By News Director Jared Atha With the academic school year winding down for most schools in the area, graduation ceremonies are set to return to somewhat normal procedures. After conducting a “drive-thru” graduation ceremony last year, Elk City High School seniors will walk across the stage in a more traditional sense on Sunday afternoon inside the Pioneer Center on the campus of Elk City High School. In fact, Superintendent Rick Garrison says Sunday will be a day of celebration for the outg...

By News Director Jared Atha The Board of Directors of the Red Carpet Community Theatre in Elk City has voted to re-open the theatre with a “Re-Start the Arts” Variety Show that will feature area talent. In a press release from the board, the show will open on June 5 with auditions being held Monday and Tuesday at 6 p.m. on both nights at the theatre located at 422 N. Jefferson in Elk City. All ages, from all communities are welcome to audition. Director Ashley Arganbright encourages all to...

By News Director Jared Atha An Arizona woman and a Tulsa, Oklahoma man received multiple charges recently in Beckham County District Court after an investigation into a rollover accident revealed the pair allegedly had illegal drugs in the car. The accident saw two juveniles ejected from the vehicle. According to a collision report provided by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the mishap occurred on the morning of April 27, approximately five miles west of Erick near mile marker two. OHP says the 20...

Two people, including a 6-year-old girl from Fort Cobb, died after a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in Caddo County near Lookeba.

House Bill 2396 by Rep. Todd Russ, R-Cordell, was signed into law this week. The measure authorizes certain nonprofit organizations to provide a series of in-depth sex trafficking prevention and education programs to freshmen students at Oklahoma colleges and universities. It specifies the nonprofits must be ones that specialize in outreach and education programs on sex trafficking and exploitation prevention. State colleges and universities are required to provide their freshman students with ...

By News Director Jared Atha Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford recently obtained its first United States Patent, making it one of only four universities in the state that hold U.S. Patents. The inventors named in the patent are SWOSU Department of Chemistry and Physics Chair and Bernhardt Professor of Chemistry Dr. Tim Hubin; former faculty member in SWOSU Pharmaceutical Sciences M. O. Faruk Khan; and collaborators Babu Tekwani at the University of Mississippi and Steve Archi...

A Sayre man is suspected of killing a one-year-old child. 30-year-old Taylor Dale Lambert was arrested Friday on a felony warrant for suspicion of first-degree murder – child abuse, according to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation news release. The Sayre Police Department asked OSBI on Nov. 14, 2020, to investigate the suspicious death of a one-year-old boy, who died on that day. OSBI stated that the autopsy results showed the baby’s death was the result of a homicide, and that Lamber...