Oklahoma Daily COLLEGE STATION — No. 1 OU (48-7, 20-4 SEC) defeated No. 12 Texas A&M (36-16, 15-7 SEC) 6-4 Saturday in game three to win the series and clinch the regular-season Southeastern Conference championship.

BEGGS — The Hugo Buffalo baseball team battled gallantly last week at the Regional Tournament hosted at Beggs. The Buffaloes lost in their opening game to the host team, 11-1 even though they managed six hits in the game.

ALEX HIGH SCHOOL — Two Hugo High School track team members earned invitation to the upcoming State 3A meet in Catoosa Saturday by virtue of their outstanding performances at last week’s Regional track meet at Alex.

Charles Leon “Bootlegger” Creacy, 83, passed away on May 3, 2026, leaving behind a lifetime of stories, stubborn opinions, questionable decisions and enough memories to keep his family laughing for generations.

On April 19, 2026, Jan (Vandergriff) Smeigh of Columbus, Ohio, peacefully passed away at home after an arduous journey with Parkinson’s Disease. Born in Paris, Texas, in 1946, Jan grew up in and around Hugo, Okla.

Funeral services for Brit Songer, of Valliant, Okla., will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 8, 2026 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home in Valliant.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Growing weary of hearing the State of Oklahoma’s educational report card at or near the bottom of regional states in recent years, members of the Oklahoma Legislature have begun seeking new and better ways to boost the 46th State’s scores.

With property taxes routinely getting hiked annually in all of Oklahoma’s 77 counties, more and more senior citizens are screaming about excessive tax levies.

A Texas-based construction company, Zachry Construction Corporation is entering the Oklahoma market and was selected by ODOT to deliver the US-70 Roosevelt Bridge replacement project under a modified progressive design-build contract.

It’s been a few decades ago, but a member of the Hugo city council approached me in the middle of May and told me the council was going to be in a jam getting the annual budget out... because they had just fired the city manager.