This week, the House Judiciary Committee will take up legislation to ban so-called assault rifles. Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez says they caused massive damage, pointing to the one used in his district during the Uvalde school shooting. The entire security cam video shows officers running away from the carnage …

COVID cases are everywhere, and that’s led to questions about the effectiveness of the current vaccine. Yet another version of the omicron variant is driving the recent spike, proving good at slipping past our defenses. Some patients catch the virus three or four times. Dr. Gerald Parker at Texas A&M …

Counties enacting outdoor burn bans last Friday were Lamar and Titus. Lamar County Commissioners will meet Monday morning in a special session at 9:00 and consider extending the ban. That leaves only Franklin County in the area that has not ordered a burn ban. The Mt Vernon Firefighters Corporation posted …

Paris ISD Board of Trustees will meet Monday night at 5:30 in the administration building. Trustees will consider the Student Code of Conduct and the Employee Handbook. The board will also discuss and possibly act on the pay rate for hourly employees.

The Lamar County Appraisal District should release its Certified Property Tax Roll by the end of the week. Some expect property values to rise by possibly $600 million. Taxing entities will use the figures to finalize their 2022-23 budgets and tax rates. So far, there have been 1,721 protests filed …

Bryan Keith Burns Hopkins County Deputies transported Bryan Keith Burns from the Wood County jail back to Hopkins, where they wanted him for Evading Arrest or Detention with a Vehicle with a prior conviction. Officers also charged him on warrants for no insurance and an equipment violation. The bond on …

They posted excessive heat warnings and heat advisories for North Texas and parts of Central Texas through Monday. Shaded in purple are the Warning areas, and orange shades the Advisory areas. The air temperatures will climb to 105 to 108 degrees in the warning area, with heat index values over …

Twice this week, Texans have been told to turn up their thermostats, as a way to avoid a power outage. Professor Ed Hirs at the University of Houston says this really does make a difference. On top of that, he says it’s easier to get homeowners to voluntarily make it …

Mexican drug cartels are weaponizing drones to fly their drug shipments across the border and into Texas. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Samantha Vinograd told a senate hearing that the cartels are also using drones to track where the border patrol is operating, so they can avoid detection. The feds are …

One expert doesn’t think women will be denied life-saving care, regardless of the state’s new lawsuit against the Biden administration. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued, saying federal laws allowing doctors to perform abortion in case of medical emergency violates Texas sovereign interest. Dr. John Thoppil, President of the Texas …