The outgoing head of ERCOT says they’re building back trust after winter storm Uri when outages led to hundreds of deaths. Brad Jones told lawmakers we had a cold winter and no significant outages. He says this summer was the second hottest on record for Texas, and there were no …

  The latest COVID report for Lamar County, issued on Tuesday, shows 181 active virus cases with no new fatalities reported. Regarding testing, there were 43 positive PCRs and 181 positive Antigens. There have been 14,706 confirmed cases of COVID in Lamar County since the pandemic began.

Lamar County Courthouse Lamar County Commissioners have approved over $5 million in tax abatements for capital improvements to housing. The upgrades will mean at least 50 new housing units. The discounts will take effect when the city of Paris grants the new certificates of occupancy.

The North Lamar ISD Board of Trustees has set a new property tax rate of 1.10 cents per hundred valuations. That’s about four cents less than the current rate. About 85 cents will go for maintenance and operations, and about 25 cents to bond indebtedness. Most people, however, will still …

Former Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas Jury selection is underway before Hunt County District Judge Keli Aiken for a former Wolfe City Police Officer accused of murdering a city resident. The state accuses 24-year-old Shaun Lucas of Lone Oak of shooting 31-year-old Jonathan Price multiple times in front of …

Robert Clevon Jeffery Delta County selected a jury, but the trial is now underway in Hopkins County District Court for a Cooper man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding another. The state charges 47-year-old Robert Clevon Jeffery with shooting 35-year-old Damien Damon Wiley of Cooper and causing bodily …

John Adam McGinn Hopkins County deputies stopped a vehicle on I-30 for failure to drive in a single lane. The driver, 40-year-old John Adam McGinn of Mt. Vernon was extremely nervous and refused permission to search the vehicle. A K-9 officer, however alerted on the pickup. A subsequent search turned …

Thomas Dwayne MItchell Titus County Deputies arrested 60-year-old Thomas Dwayne Mitchell of Mt. Pleasant on a warrant for Revocation of Probation for Possession of more than four but less than 200 grams of a Controlled Substance. He’s in the Titus County Jail. Misael Hernandez Deputies arrested 38-year-old Misael Hernandez for …

Mt Pleasant PD Facebook Page Mt Pleasant Police Department’s Narcotics Officer conducted a traffic stop on two men on Interstate 30 and located 26 stolen firearms, a large sum of possible stolen cash, and narcotics. The two men also were convicted felons. The officer charged them with multiple counts of …