Another week of sunshine and dry weather across southeast Oklahoma, with high temperatures in the 60s until a cold front brings cooler temperatures for the weekend. Did you know the musical group, Three Dog Night from the early 70s got their name from something weather-related? Vocalist Danny Hutton’s girlfriend suggested the name after reading a magazine article about Aboriginal Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog.

DURANT –– The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Youth Advisory Board (YAB), southeast Oklahoma’s top youth leadership program, will hold its first Quarterly Conference of the year from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15 at the Choctaw Cultural Center.

Eastern Oklahoma State College has announced honor rolls for the fall 2021 semester. PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL Choctaw County Choctaw - Kimberly Bean.

Felony 001 – Steven Tyler Nichols: Domestic assault and battery by strangulation. 002 – Rakeem Montiel Lennox: Burglary, second degree.

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Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison 1 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

Warning to Zedekiah 1 While Nebuchadnezzar king of 1 While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. 3 You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands.