Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom has been named the new president of the Sulphur Springs Rotary Club. Former judge Mike Jumper passed the ceremonial gavel to Newsom at Thursday’s Rotary Club Meeting.

Nichlous Cole Williams Upshur County sent3enced an Upshur County man to life in prison after pleading guilty to a double murder. A grand jury indicted 21-year-old Nichlous Cole Williams of East Mountain for killing his grandfather, Leonard Faris Gibson, and Denene Susanne Mosley in February of 2021. It happened after …

TIME:                   9:00 A.M. DATE:                   Monday, July 11, 2022 PLACE:                In The Commissioners’ Courtroom On The First Floor Of The Hopkins County Courthouse Located At                                 118 Church St., Sulphur Springs, TX.                          Invocation Pledge Of Allegiance To The Flag  AMERICAN FLAG: TEXAS FLAG: “Honor The Texas Flag; I Pledge Allegiance …

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) just launched Texas Utility Help (TXUH) to help eligible low-income Texas homeowners and renters pay their utility bills. The statewide program works to distribute funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the federal Low …

CitySquare Paris is accepting applicants for the fall 2022 AmeriCorps internship opportunities beginning September 6-December 22. Due to the non-profit’s growth in services to the community, they will select five interns for these paid positions. Anyone over 17 may apply with special consideration given to those pursuing degrees in social …

A detailed report on the Uvalde school shooting lays the blame on the incident commander and the rank-and-file officers who responded. State Senator Roland Gutierrez says this proved what they had known all along. The report shows a Uvalde police officer who had the gunman in sight before the shooter …

The COVID testing positivity rate is climbing to a five-month high. Dr. Jason Bowling with the University of Texas Health System says the virus is mutating, and there are two dominant strains, both resistant to antibodies from previous infections. Even though the positivity rate is spiking, hospitalizations and deaths remain …

State Troopers are setting up highway checkpoints to prevent another deadly smuggling attempt like the one that ended with more than 53 people dead. It has the support of truckers. John Esparza is with the Texas Trucking Association. He says drivers are used to inspections, so it will not be …

The Paris Downtown Food Pantry expects to resume operations at their 124 W. Cherry St. location the week of July 25. The contractor for the new concrete parking lot still has some work to do but has assured pantry officials it will be complete with striping in place in time …