• During safe sleep and SIDS awareness month OKLAHOMA CITY – One of the leading causes of death in babies one to 12 months old is sleep-related infant deaths, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. Data from the 2021 Oklahoma Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) show the sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) infant mortality rate (IMR) was 1.4 babies per 1,000 live births.

Two Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists are among 28 internationally to receive grants announced Wednesday by the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality (GCRLE). Research by OMRF scientists Sarah Ocañas, Ph.D., and Michael Stout, Ph.D., will take separate approaches toward a goal of delaying menopause.

• For 2024 Academic All-State Scholars, educators awards OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is seeking submissions for its 2024 Academic Awards, which honor five exceptional educators and 100 outstanding high school seniors in Oklahoma’s public schools. Awards criteria and online nomination/application forms can be accessed on the foundation website at www.

HUGO — Two felony counts of shooting with intent to kill were filed on Sept. 28 on two Choctaw County men, following a shooting incident into a home located on Fallon Road southeast of Hugo.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– A Hugo Police officer is recovering after a wreck he was involved in Sunday morning, approximately two miles west of Soper, Okla., on US Hwy. 70.

of Hugo, was this week’s winner of the Hugo News Football Contest after choosing 17 out of 18 games correctly. Pictured, Wolf (right) collects the $50 weekly prize from Chandler Logan of Hugo Jiffy Lube, where he obtained his winning entry blank.

Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police were dispatched to the Choctaw Casino & Resort in Grant recently in regards to a possible stolen vehicle. According to official reports, valet attendants received a valet receipt ticket from two males, who were later identified as Terral Jack Barnes, 32 of Hugo and Gerry Vance Noah, 45 of Soper.

HUGO — Area law-enforcement officers were alerted to reports of gunfire north of Hugo High School Monday afternoon and soon-after began chasing a vehicle meeting the description of the vehicle involved.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will begin issuing more than $1.75 billion in emergency relief payments to eligible farmers and livestock producers. These much-needed payments are helping farming and ranching operations recover following natural disasters in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Many agriculture producers in our area have a license to buy Restricted Use Pesticides (RUP) to control pests on their farm or ranch. One of the conditions or rules to keeping that license is to receive continuing education units (CEUs) throughout the fiveyear term of the license.