The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist $2.9 million to better understand how genetic variants contribute to the autoimmune disease lupus. Scientists discovered the connection between genetic variations and lupus more than half a century ago.

Good news: This year’s flu vaccine appears to be particularly effective at preventing severe cases. Bad news: Only about 40% of Americans eligible for flu shots have received one.

hustles the basketball up the floor for the Hugo Buffaloes in their recent games in the Oklahoma City Star Spencer tournament. Benson and the Buffaloes will tip-off Thursday, Dec. 28 in the Idabel Winter Classic at 5:45 p.m. against Tulsa KIPP.

During My Daily Devotional God showed me this scritpture. Philipians 3:13: “Brethren, I count not my self to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before:” Today I want to leave the past behind and latch onto the future.

Life lessons I learned from my life as an east Texas pastor. One evening as I was taking my daily walk around and through the cemetery by the Old Palestine Baptist Church, I was walking on FM 2610 in front of the church, praying and looking at the beautiful pond when I looked down and saw a crack in the asphalt.

First Assembly of God, 1176 US 271 South. Pastors Barbara and Keithen Brown, hugolstog@yahoo.com.

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According to Hugo city hall, the trash pickup will not run on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. Both Holiday weeks: • Monday’s trash will be picked up on Tuesday.

FORT TOWSON — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol continues to decline to provide additional details of the Trooper-involved fatality shooting that occurred at Tommy’s Bar on the west side of Fort Towson on Dec 2.

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