On July 1, 2025, OBN’s Marijuana Enforcement Teams (MET) served a Search Warrant at DJX Farms, 7675 E. 131 Rd. Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma as part of an ongoing OBN MET investigation into illegal marijuana cultivation. Operators of the grow were using an OBN Registration obtained by fraud involving a ‘straw ownership’ scheme. OBN MET Agents seized 3,853 plants and 118 pounds of processed marijuana. Arrests are pending as this cases moves forward. OBN MET was assisted by the Hughes County Sheriff’s Office & Hughes County Commissioners Office. Since 2021, OBN MET Agents have shut down over 6,000 illegal marijuana farms through enforcement and/or administrative actions for grows tied to black market trafficking and obtaining an OBN Registration by fraud using ‘straw ownership’ schemes. At the end of 2022, 8,400 farms were operating with an active OBN Registration. Today, that number stands at approximately 2,100. Citizens can anonymously report criminal drug and human trafficking activity to OBN’s tip-line at 800522-8031 or sending OBN a Facebook DM.

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Peace and happiness have many variables. We aren’t happy when we feel we do not have enough and then burdened if we have too much.

Supreme Court to Rule on Transgender Athletes A recent news story regarding transgender athletes indicates the US Supreme Court will take up a case in the near future that involves transgender athletes. There’s several cases that are related to this subject and maybe there will be some clarification on this problem.

You think that bold firefighters hold no fear in their bones when they rush into a red-hot cauldron of fire that was once a high-rise building? That police officers run have no fear inside as they run toward an active crime scene? That parents don’t spend some sleep-deprived nights, dreading the marching onslaught of the notorious ‘teen years?’ That the middle-aged generation laughs fearlessly and poo-poos the much-talkedabout inevitable old age, loneliness, and pain?

How did we ever survive??? This is certainly not new and many of you are already rolling your eyes and sighing to yourselves. I know, you’ve heard it all before along with the walking (three, four, five) miles to school in the (12 inch, 24 inch or waist deep) snow.

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