McCURTAIN COUNTY –– The body of a missing Smithville, Okla., man was found last Thursday morning on the banks of a creek. According to reports from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Ronnie Toon, 29, was attempting to cross a flooded bridge on Mountain Fork River on April 1, approximately five miles south of Smithville.

Candidate filing is scheduled for April 13, 14, and 15, Oklahoma State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax announced. Candidate filing hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the three-day period. Candidates filing for federal, state, legislative, judicial and district attorney offices will file with the Secretary of the State Election Board at the State Capitol, located at 2300 N. Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City. Filing will take place on the ground floor, in the east hallway of the State Capitol. Candidates filing for county offices will file at their local County Election Board office and should contact their County Election Board for filing instructions.

“Lose weight, exercise more.” How many of us have heard our physician deadpan that prescription during our annual wellness check-up? While that’s sound advice, new findings from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation suggest how exercise can benefit people with osteoarthritis even in the absence of weight loss. OMRF scientist Tim Griffin, Ph.D., said the findings lay the groundwork for understanding cellular changes related to osteoarthritis, which affects one in eight American adults.

Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), is encouraging Oklahomans to get moving and live healthier lives. April is National Move More Month, and Shape Your Future offers resources to Oklahomans who want to improve their health by increasing physical activity.

Recently, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined fellow House Republicans voicing frustrations towards the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Agency’s actions of issuing restrictive registrations on Enlist One and Enlist Duo. The Agency has also recently proposed a new registration process for new pesticide active ingredients that could severely limit producers’ access to important pesticides.

Get Wisdom at Any Cost 1 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. 2 I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.

Paul’s Trial Before Felix 1 Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor. 2 When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented his case before Felix: “We have enjoyed a long period of peace under you, and your foresight has brought about reforms in this nation.

A Message About the Philistines 1 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza: 2 This is what the Lord says: “See how the waters are rising in the north; they will become an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and everything in it, the towns and those who live in them.