The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) Human Resources department has been recognized with an OnCon ICON Award, earning a spot among the Top 10 Human Resources Teams for excellence in innovation, leadership, and organizational impact.

1 These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): 3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. 4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the Lord’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.

Joshua 13 15 This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Reuben, according to its clans: 16 The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba 17 to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, 20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth— 21 all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—princes allied with Sihon—who lived in that country.

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is seeking applicants for its 2025-26 Teen Leaders class. Applications are due March 1.

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.

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.

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.

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.