Following an abrupt severance of their recent cozy friendship, U.S. President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, began hurling back and forth insults at one another. Soon after the spat broke out, Musk issued a statement about what President Trump has termed his Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB). “ I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.

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A new sculpture honoring the World War I Choctaw Code Talkers was unveiled recently at the Choctaw Cultural Center. The bronze sculpture, Chahta Anumpa i Tvshka Hoke (Warriors of the Choctaw Language) depicts the heralded soldiers who used the Choctaw language to help end the war.

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1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.” 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.

Towns for the Levites 1 Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel 2 at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.” 3 So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance: 4 The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin. 5 The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.

The Hugo Alumni Association proudly hosted its first-ever Halls of Legends Ceremony at Hugo High School, celebrating the remarkable legacies of Lyndol Fry, Charles Pierce and Alan Simpson. The inaugural event was a heartfelt success, drawing alumni, family and community members together to honor these beloved figures.

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HUGO — Hugo alumni gathered Saturday for the 43rd annual Alumni Luncheon, celebrating memories, friendships and school spirit. Emceed by Christin Logan (right middle), the event featured a heartfelt address from Mehlenie Adamson (top right) and honored beloved past alumniAlan Simpson (top left, presented by McKynlie Factor), Charles Pierce (presented and accepted by Tamareon Jeffers and Mark) and Lyndol Fry (presented and accepted by Tyson Lemmons and Fry’s grandson Jeff Jones).

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Cory Lamont Bostic, aka Cory L. Neal, age 48, of Hugo, Okla., was sentenced to 78 months in prison for one count of distribution of methamphetamine.