Doris G. Ross passed away at her home on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Hugo, Okla. She was 79. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at the Prater-Lampton-Mills and Coffey Funeral Home in Hugo. Interment followed at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Hugo with the Rev. Gene Wilson officiating.

Funeral services for Benjamine “Ben” Franklin Jordan, Jr., of Smithville, Okla., will be at 1 p.m. March 25, 2022 at Smithville Rodeo Arena in Smithville. Benjamine passed away March 19, 2022, at the age of 90.

It was a shortened week at the Capitol due to spring break, but we still had heavy agendas on Monday and Tuesday with more than 70 bills on the agenda. We’ll continue to work diligently on the roughly 200 bills still eligible for consideration in our chamber as we approach the March 24 deadline to advance them to the House of Representatives.

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told the U.S. ambassador in Moscow that U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin have strained ties between the two countries to “the verge of breaking.”

The White House on Monday urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure.

The price of death and destruction that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the millions of Russian citizens he leads have been willing to pay... has not yet risen to a point that he has indicated the possibility of concession or failure.

1 “Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.” 2 When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet. Then Paul said: 3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city.

Disaster Because of Idolatry 1 This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis—and in Upper Egypt: 2 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Today they lie deserted and in ruins 3 because of the evil they have done.

Moral Benefits of Wisdom 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Two young boys were growing up on their parents’ small farm. This meant that raising show-worthy pigs and calves for livestock shows was a normal thing in life to them.