Authorities are continuing to search for two men in a pickup who opened fire on a Pushmataha deputy’s patrol vehicle. The deputy was not injured and returned fire. The suspect’s vehicle is described as a blue 1990s- Chevrolet or GMC extended cab pickup truck with an expired Texas paper …

  Paris Junior College will host campus-carry town hall meetings next week at the campuses in Paris, Sulphur Springs and Greenville. The Paris meeting will be held Tuesday, May 2, at the PJC Math and Science Building in rooms 101 & 102 at 12:30 p.m.

  Paris Regional Medical Center, North Lamar ISD, local emergency services, first responders and law enforcement officers will hold a “Mass Casualty Incident” training exercise tomorrow. The purpose of the exercise is to test the emergency services preparedness and emergency response to a mass casualty incident involving a school bus. …

  Lamar County deputies say a package at first believed to be a pipe bomb found at a home in Deport was harmless.  The homeowners said they were cleaning up after the former tenants were evicted when they found the suspicious package, threw it out the window and called authorities. …

  Paris – Last night the North Lamar Panthers finish as the 2 seed in 14-4A with an 8-3 win over Liberty Eylau.  Paris is in the No. 3 spot after winning over Pittsburg, 5-1.  Prairiland is playoff bound, but fall to Winnsboro, 5-3. And the Cooper Bulldogs enter the post season on a …

  A Houston area man is behind bars in Choctaw County after Oklahoma authorities were notified by authorities in Spring,Texas that 36 year old James Hilton had an unrelated warrant out of McCurtain County and was heading to Oklahoma. Officers allegedly found hundreds of images and videos of child pornography …

  Dillon’s Drivers has announced that the organization has new operating hours for the weekend. The Thursday hours will be from 10pm to midnight and Friday and Saturday from 10pm – 3am.  The change is that the last call for ride requests will be 2:30am.

  PJC Regents  have voted to increase the fee to $35 for a comprehensive background check of residence hall applicants. The current $25 check only included the state of Texas. The new fee will include Texas counties and other states in the background check. PJC students living on campus should …

  Choctaw County authorities say the Soper Public Schools were put on lockdown for about 15 minutes  Tuesday morning when officials received a tip that a student was going to bring a gun to class. The female student, who was a sophomore, did not have a weapon but was taken …

  State Troopers arrested 25 year old Samantha Rae Avance of Deport after a crash on FM905 in Lamar County in which the SUV she was driving overturned and ejected her two passengers. They were flown to a trauma center in Plano.  Avance was charged with Intoxication Assault Causing Serious …