Cimarron County News

Snow fell late Sunday and early Monday morning across the western end of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Low clouds, the chance for drizzle and cool temperatures will make for a dreary end to the weekend today in Oklahoma, but ever-changing weather patterns could bring sunny skies and pleasant fall weather by week's end.

Branding women with a 'scarlet letter' won't reduce abortions. As a global study shows, contraception and education are key In Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter , Hester Prynne is forced to walk amid her small, Puritan community wearing a red "A" on her chest for the social crime of having sex outside of the bounds of marriage.

Two men died in separate automobile crashes on Oklahoma highways Saturday. Brian Dean Beam, 48, of Gracemont, died Saturday just after noon after the vehicle he was driving was hit while heading westbound on U.S. 281 near Binger in Caddo County, according to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Some parts of Oklahoma could see winter-like weather over the weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Cimarron and Texas counties in the Oklahoma Panhandle for early Saturday and a freeze watch for those counties and five others for Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Calmer, cooler conditions are expected across Oklahoma on Friday. The National Weather Service said stable air and high pressure began building into the state behind a strong cold front on Thursday.

KATIE MARTIRE/The GDH Two nests made up of mostly wire were found by Guymon residents Don and Carol Rhoton, who discovered two large wire nests that consist of copper wire, barbed wire, 9 inch wire and even bed springs.

KATIE MARTIRE/The GDH Two nests made up of mostly wire were found by Guymon residents Don and Carol Rhoton, who discovered two large wire nests that consist of copper wire, barbed wire, 9 inch wire and even bed springs.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' New figures from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission show four Oklahoma counties reported double-digit unemployment rates last month.

The university would provide the land for a $420 million venture. NEW OPPORTUNITIES Langston University President JoAnn Hays- bert: "We are the only historically black university in the nation that is wind-accessible, as far as owning land.

I literally went back in time when I traveled a few years ago to where Jane and Bob Apple live.

C.F. DAVID/TheBoise City News An unidentified woman was transported to Cimarron Memorial Hospital after a wreck Wednesday at about 10 a.m. A Toyota Pickup from New Mexico wrecked about 17 miles west of Boise City on Highway 325.

If you step out on the prairie, close your eyes and listen real hard, you can almost hear the ocean.

It's amazing to realize how dramatically and quickly life has changed in many parts of these United States.