Elk City is Most Successful
August 4, 2016 By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph – Another survey has ranked a Western Oklahoma Community as a best place to live and work. A national website, Zippia, calling itself the Career...
View ArticleSWOSU Offers off Campus College Classes
August 5, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – SWOSU-Sayre is teaming up again with Great Plains Regional Medical Center to offer college classes in Elk City. The Sayre campus’ 2016 fall...
View ArticleCorn Bible Hires New Superintendent
August 5, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – Corn Bible Academy school board recently hired a new school superintendent. Dr. Greg Giles, from Bemidji, Minnesota, assumed the responsibility of...
View ArticleTrial of Canute Man Underway
August 5, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – The trial of a Canute man began this morning in Beckham County District Court. The man is accused of child abuse by injury from an incident in...
View ArticleEC Dress Code Policy Changed
August 1, 2016 By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph – By a unanimous vote of the members present, the Elk City School Board has dropped the requirement of school uniforms, officially changing its...
View ArticleKid’s Inc Announces New Executive Director
August 8, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – Kids, Incorporated of Elk City has completed its search for a new Executive Director following the resignation of Rick McNeil. Joey Bales, a law...
View ArticleFatality Accident Wilson
August 8, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – Members of The National Transportation and Safety Board are in Western Oklahoma investigating an airplane accident that took the life of a Broken...
View ArticleTrial of Canute Man Underway – 2nd Update
August 8, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – The prosecution is expected to “rest” this afternoon or this evening in the trial of a Canute man facing a felony charge of child abuse by injury....
View ArticleWeatherford Man Jailed
August 9, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – A Weatherford man is in the Custer County Jail after allegedly threatening two police officers in Weatherford. Police had previously dealt with...
View ArticleCanute Wells to Flow Into Clinton Very Soon
August 9, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – The process of pumping water for Clinton from the Canute water wells is on track and officials believe the first water could be sent to Clinton...
View ArticleJury Deliberating Case of Canute Man
August 9, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – A Beckham County jury is now deliberating the case of a Canute man charged with child abuse by injury. 26-year-old Nicholas Kyle Merz has been on...
View ArticleClinton Health Fair
August 10, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – The Clinton Public School system is holding their second annual community health fair for the public and for school age children. Assistant...
View ArticleElk City Man Goes On Trial
August 10, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – An Elk City man goes on trial Friday on a first degree rape charge. Jury selection begins in the morning at 9:30 am for 50-year-old Dwight Dean...
View ArticleMerz Found Not Guilty
August 10, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – A Canute man has been found not guilty of child abuse by injury charges. After almost eight hours, the Beckham County jury of six men and six...
View ArticleBackpacks with a Purpose Unzips Hunger in Western Oklahoma
August 11, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – “Backpacks with a Purpose” feeds chronically hungry children right here in Western Oklahoma. This Regional Food Bank program serves the needs of...
View ArticleWestern Oklahoma Economy More Resilient Than Expected
August 11, 2016 By Paul Joseph, Paragon News Director – A state economist is leaving Western Oklahoma after a couple of days here visiting with business people and residents with a feeling that the...
View ArticleFormer Elk City Teacher Under Investigation
August 11, 2016 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology is investigating an incident in which a longtime agriculture teacher from Elk City allegedly presented a black...
View ArticleEC Dress Code Policy Changed
August 1, 2016 By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph – By a unanimous vote of the members present, the Elk City School Board has dropped the requirement of school uniforms, officially changing its...
View ArticleFaulted Arrester Causes Power Outage
July 29, 2016 By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph – Following a power surge on Wednesday morning that knocked out services to internet and 911 emergency services impacting most of the state, a...
View ArticlePersonal Injury Accident Phy Gorman
July 29, 2016 By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph – A Cordell man was uninjured in an accident in Caddo County that sent a Fort Cobb man to an Oklahoma City hospital in serious condition. The injured...
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