Area high school football team’s scrimmage continues tonight. — Paris – The Chisum Mustangs will be at Paris High’s Wildcat Stadium against the Clarksville Tigers. The Prairiland Patriots host the Detroit Eagles. Rivercrest will visit Tom Bean, and the Hugo Buffalos are on the road to face Tishomingo. — Mount Pleasant …

  A Pushmataha County inmate who escaped from his work detail was captured several hours later in Antlers. While being transported back to jail, Earl Barton became violent with officers. Now, instead of a misdemeanor, he faces felony escape and assault on a police officer charges. Barton who was in jail …

  A 50-year-old Lamar County man who led Reno Police and county deputies on a high-speed chase after an attempted traffic stop has been convicted by a Lamar County jury of eight women and four men of all charges against him. Quentin Baker was then sentenced by the same jury …

  Many Northeast Texas first responders have been deployed to the areas expected to be hit hardest by Hurricane Harvey. Paris EMS paramedics Russell Thrasher and Chris Shoemate have been deployed to the coast to work with victims of the storm. Each was driving one of the Paris disaster response …

  At this time, the forecast is for Harvey to make landfall on the Texas Coast on Saturday morning around sunrise near Rockport/Port Aransas as a Category III Hurricane. Sustained winds could be as high as 125 mph with gusts near 145 mph. The Storm Surge north of the center …

  The second and final weekend of football scrimmages begins tomorrow for area high schools. — Paris – Prairiland will welcome in the Detroit Eagles to Patriot Stadium. The Chisum Mustangs and Clarksville Tigers tune up at Paris High’s Wildcat Stadium. The North Lamar Panthers head to Daingerfield while the Paris Wildcats …

  A Fannin County man, charged with attempting to sexually assault a woman in the Bonham Walmart parking lot, has pleaded guilty to the charges. Dylan Gee, of Bonham, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was already a registered sex offender at the time of the assault.

  North Lamar ISD’s board will meet at noon tomorrow for a special session to discuss the contract of Superintendent John McCullough. McCullough’s contract has already been reviewed several times this year.

  A jury was selected in Lamar County Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of leading officers from several jurisdictions on a high-speed chase. Quentin Dean Baker is charged with evading arrest or detention with a vehicle – habitual criminal. Authorities say he was fleeing because he had …

  Officers conducted a traffic stop in the 10 block of E Sherman in Paris and as a result made contact with 32-year-old Blake Lindsey and 27-year-old and Katie Westbrook. They were found to have outstanding warrants for abandoning/endangering a child with criminal negligence and were arrested. Paris Police responded …