A 30-year-old Grayson County man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for allegedly inappropriately touching the ten-year-old babysitter for his children. Nicholus Booe of Tom Bean was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Authorities are investigating a missing person report involving a 15-year-old Lamar County girl. Friends last saw 15-year-old Dani Lee Crombie was seen in Johnston County Oklahoma. She is described as white, 5-5 and about 110 pounds.

Photo by Bill Higgins Bill Higgins Photos Over the weekend, the North Lamar Pantherettes placed third in the Tyler Volleyball tournament. While the Paris Lady Cats finished 6th in the Forney tournament. Tori Weatherford finished the tournament with 91 assists for the Lady Cats. On Friday the Prairiland Lady Patriots …

A former North Texas Sheriff’s Deputy has been arrested for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. Authorities arrested 23-year-old Toby Allison Friday, and he was immediately fired. He was booked into the Johnson County Jail, but released on $100,000 bond.

A former Mesquite teacher’s aide has been sentenced to 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole for repeatedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy. Jessica-Jewel Benton confessed to numerous sexual encounters with the boy over several months in 2016 when she was 26. The boy was a student in …

Go ahead and take some selfies in outer space with the help of NASA, right from the comfort of your couch. NASA Selfies allows you to see what you’d look like in a virtual spacesuit, or posed in front of cosmic locations such as the Orion Nebula or the center …

Following an extensive national search, Governor Greg Abbott today announced Dr. Courtney Phillips as the new Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). Dr. Phillips currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services in Nebraska. She will assume the role …

Eighth graders who are enrolled in the Outdoor Education class at Stone Middle School will be learning an array of outdoor skills this year. On Friday students were seen on the campus lawn putting up tents. Working in groups they unpacked tents, followed the enclosed instructions on how to put …

Bailey Intermediate fifth grade students arrived in their reading classes this week and discovered their rooms had been transformed into cafes. On a quest to awaken the inner reader in every student, the teachers offered a yummy way to expand the readers’ palates with a book tasting. The students were …

A Carter County, Oklahoma woman has been arrested for allegedly embezzling money from the Ardmore Walmart. Kristen McGehee allegedly stole about $5,000 by keeping the money she allegedly took from customers she was checking out at the register. Her actions were reportedly caught on security videotapes.