Staff Hugo City School officials have received formal notice that parents of two middle school students have filed a notice of tort claim against the district for alleged abuse of their children while at school. The letter states that the parents will be seeking $20 million dollars for actual and punitive damages for abuse they received while in the school’s care.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dylan Hansen Yazzie, age 28, of Broken Bow, Okla., entered a guilty plea to one count of sexual exploitation of a child/use of a child to produce a visual depiction.

The Hugo Municipal Authority special meeting scheduled for Feb. 19 at the Choctaw Nation Community Center has been postponed due to inclement weather and will be rescheduled.

ANTLERS –– An Antlers, Okla., teen passed away after a one-vehicle collision in the early hours of Feb. 17, approximately 100 feet from Antlers city limits.

• Empowering health in the Choctaw Nation: New respiratory health hub The new Respiratory Health Hub of the Choctaw Nation Department of Public Health shows a 19.6% rise in flu positivity since Jan. 11, 2025.

Runny nose, coughing, watery eyes –– These are the symptoms Tess (not her real name) just couldn’t seem to shake. The congestion set in after raking leaves.

Joshua 13 Land Still to Be Taken 1 When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. 2 “This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, 3 from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; 5 the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

14 One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him a to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?” 15 She replied, “Do me a special favor.

Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Sarah and Travis were trying to make it to his mom’s house that night before the storm hit.

Here we go again, Another senseless death, A life cut short, a stolen breath, Robbed of dreams and futures bright, A teacher, a leader, lost to night. When will the cycle start to break, When will we choose love for peace’s sake? Let’s join in prayer, our voices strong, For a world where unity can right the wrong.