The Lamar County Junior Livestock Show continues today and Friday with the exhibition by local FFA and 4H members of their rabbits, broilers, hogs, horses, and cows as well as agricultural mechanical projects at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. The sale of the livestock will start at 6:45 p.m. on …
Read More »PCT To Present Inherit The Wind At Lamar County Courthouse This Weekend
The next performance by the Paris Community Theater will not be held on the plaza, but instead in the Lamar County Courthouse. “Inherit the Wind” is a dramatization of the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” that took place in Tennessee in 1925. It’s the story of a teacher, put on trial …
Read More »Choctaw County Shooting Victim Identified
Choctaw County authorities confirmed that Delton Ray Flowers, Jr., is the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in the casino section of the Choctaw Travel Center in Grant. Surveillance video shows Flowers reach for what looked like a revolver in his pocket and after several requests from the officers …
Read More »Lamar County Sheriff’s Report For April 19
Roy Lee Washington was arrested in Lamar County. They charged him with violation of his parole. Lamar County arrested Brandon Douglas Campbell on multiple charges. He’s accused of resisting arrest or transport, fraud, and issuance of a bad check.
Read More »Woman Who Kicked Lamar County Detention Officer Has Been Indicted
A grand jury indicted a woman who kicked a Lamar County Detention officer in the head. Shannon Thompson is charged with three counts of assault on a public servant. The officer was seriously injured, and flown to a hospital in Dallas after the alleged attack.
Read More »High School Baseball And Softball Scores Plus Rangers Get Road Win
On Tuesday night, in district Softball, Reagan Richardson pitched another no-hitter as the Pantherettes blanked Pittsburg 3-0 on a senior night. In the win, Richardson finished with 12 strikeouts but she knows she didn’t do it alone. — NL will play Hughes Springs Friday in a warm-up game before the playoffs start the …
Read More »North Lamar ISD Police Receive Grant For Safety Equipment
A grant from Friends of the National Rifle Association has allowed the purchase of new equipment in order to continue to serve and protect the citizens, staff members and most of all students of North Lamar ISD. Four body-worn cameras were obtained by the North Lamar ISD Police Department …
Read More »First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At Age 92
Former First Lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday afternoon in Houston, surrounded by her family. She was the wife of former president George H.W. Bush and the mother of former president George W.Bush. She was 92. She and Bush 41 were married for 73 years.
Read More »One Dead After Southwest Airlines Engine Blows Mid-Flight
A Southwest Airlines jet en route from New York to Dallas apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet killing a woman from New Mexico, who was partially pulled from her seat through a window. Seven other passengers were injured. The plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
Read More »Pantherettes Pickup 22nd Win Plus Rangers Lose Opener In Tampa
On Mix 107.7 Monday night the Pantherettes won their 22nd game in a row as they defeated Atlanta 11-1 in 6 innings. Reagan Richardson got the win for North Lamar as she struck out 12 batters. Karsyn Iltis hit a solo home run as part of a 6-run fourth inning. North …
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