In the regularly scheduled meeting Monday night, North Lamar ISD School Board approved the recommendation to hire Brittney Tisdell as the Pantherettes head basketball coach. Tisdell is in her 11th year of coaching and has a reputation for motivating her players to win. She began her coaching career at Cooper ISD before …

An 18-year-old boy was killed Saturday morning in an ATV accident on County Road 2150 in Choctaw County. Authorities say the passenger on the ATV, Kollin Edge, of Soper, fell from the vehicle. The driver turned around to see what happened, and Edge was struck and killed. Officials say 35-year-old …

A father is dead, and they hospitalized his son after drowning at Broken Bow Lake on Fathers Day afternoon. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 47-year-old Carlo Lomas, Sr., and 18-year-old Carlo Lomas, Jr., were swimming in the lake when the son started struggling. The dad attempted to rescue his son …

The Lamar County Grand Jury has indicted 27-year-old Patrick Earl O’Neal of Paris for first-degree felony murder. He’s accused of fatally shooting 42-year-old Anthony Dewayne Masses of Blossom on 19th Northwest St. last April.

The 12th Annual Honey Grove Fireworks Show is Saturday, June 26, at the Honey Grove Elementary School. Bring your family picnic spread beginning at 6:30. In addition, there will be live music and vendors available, and for more information, you can search Honey Grove Fireworks on Facebook.

Franklin County Deputies responded to a 911 call about a shooting Sunday morning at about 8:15 in the 600-block of Leftwich in Mount Vernon. Deputies located a 41-year-old man who a suspect shot, and he was flown to a Tyler hospital where he underwent emergency surgery and is reported to …

Brenda Arzola-Eupracio Hopkins County arrested 23-year-old Brenda Arzola–Eupracio for Bond Forfeiture on charges of Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle and Possession of a Controlled Substance. Her new bonds were seat at $10,000. Isaiah Deonte Bryant-Lacy Deputies arrested 24-year-old Isaiah Deonte Bryant-Lacy for violating his probation for Manufacture or Delivery of …

From TSN – A federal report on UFOs will be released to Congress this week, but experts cannot predict any bombshells. Texas A&M astronomer Nick Suntzeff has been involved with space research for 30 years. He says there are plenty of images of unknown flying objects, but we cannot leap …

  Some H-E-B Grocery Stores in Texas will soon be accepting payment in cryptocurrency. They’ll use the coin cloud machines. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin will all be accepted for grocery payments, the first grocery chain in the state to take a digital currency. Currently, one bitcoin equals about $36-thousand …

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, a new federal holiday. The president signed Republican Senator John Cornyn’s bill, which honors the end of slavery. It is now the 12th national holiday and the first since the hill established Martin Luther King Day in 1983. Most employees at Texas A&M System Universities and agencies …