In The News 06.10.2025

Here are the headlines shared on Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Mountain lion kittens confirmed in Oklahoma (Read) / Image: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

In The News

Here are the headlines shared on Tuesday, June 10, 2025

• States’ moves to curb cellphone use in schools highlighted in U.S. House hearing (Oklahoma Voice)

• Universities tackling Oklahoma’s teacher shortage head on (Oklahoma Voice)

• Oklahoma’s Poverty Crisis Deepens as Lawmakers Clash Over Solutions (Oklahoma Watch)

• Demolition of old Myriad Convention Center underway Monday (KFOR)

• Mountain lion kittens confirmed in Oklahoma for first time (KOKH)

• Geronimo students and residents push to create a football team (KSWO)

• Zink Lake closed due to stronger than normal current (KJRH)

• Cherokee Nation taking over Claremore Indian Hospital, planning $255M outpatient facility (KOTV)

• Oklahoma Historical Society awards $1.1 million in grants for civil rights trail projects (KTUL)

• USPS reopens Glencoe post office, restoring full services effective immediately (KTUL)

• Former Oklahoma State President Kayse Shrum taking on role with Chickasaw Nation (KXII)

• Oklahoma ranks 46th in overall child well-being for third consecutive year (KGOU)

• Wind energy brings money to landowners and rural communities, but pushback remains (KGOU)

• ‘We were not treated equally’: School meal employees criticize food supply company following district renewal (KWGS)

• 'Words of perpetuity': Muscogee Nation Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Freedmen citizenship (Nondoc)

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