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Vehicle Crashes into House Causing Gas Leak

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At approximately 3:49 PM on Monday, April 11, Opp Police Department officers and Opp Fire Department fire units responded to the 400 block of Forth Street to the report of a traffic crash. Upon arrival, officers found a Ford Explorer had departed the roadway and crashed into a private residence. The operator and only occupant of the Ford Explorer sustained…

Rattlers Ready for the Rodeo

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The 56th Annual Rattlesnake Rodeo is full of fun, great food, good music and, of course, rattlesnakes. Sometimes, even the people working the event become a part of the tradition. That is true for Don Childre, the rodeo coordinator. He has been wrangling snakes most of his life. “I had fooled with a lot of poisonous snakes as a child,”…