Sheilah Gibbs (left) was the final winner of the Hugo News 70th annual Football Bowl Contest. She is pictured with Hugo News advertising representative Jody Rawls..

DURANT –– Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has appointed Amy J. Pierce as the first fulltime district court judge for the tribal nation’s Judicial Branch. She was sworn in last week by Choctaw Nation Chief Justice David Burrage at the Choctaw Nation Judicial Center.

A psalm of David. 1 I call to you, Lord, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.

Peter Explains His Actions 1 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” 4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision.

Promise of Restoration 1 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him a second time: 2 “This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: 3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ 4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege ramps and the sword 5 in the fight with the Babylonians a : ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.

Three years ago, Demontre Akins made a tough decision: He chose not to return to his coaching gig with Idabel’s high school basketball team. When he was younger, he didn’t dream of coaching the way so many athletes do after they hang up their cleats or sit down their ball.