News

June, 2022

• 14 June

  Hopkins County Chamber Connection 06.15.22

  By Butch Burney Small business owners will want to come to our Lunch and Learn, set for Wednesday, June 22, in the upstairs room at Corner Grubhouse, entitled Digital Marketing 101, by April Bliss, founder of Bliss Digital Innovations. We had scheduled April for this workshop in January but had …
• 14 June

  Juneteenth Holiday Celebration In Sulphur Springs
• 14 June

  Weekly Road Report

  Watch for Intersection Changes at FM 69 and SH 11 in Como PARIS – Texas Department of Transportation officials announced that work to create a four-way stop at FM 69 and State Highway 11 in Como, in Hopkins County, is July 6. TxDOT will place stop signs necessary to convert …
• 14 June

  Paris Police Report For Tuesday (Jun 14)

  Keitric Zonderius Reynolds Monday night at 8:20, police conducted a traffic stop in the 200-block of Martin Luther King Drive on a 2008 Red Dodge passenger car for operating with a defective high-mounted stop lamp. The driver was Keitric Zonderius Reynolds, 30, of Paris. Officer detected an odor of marijuana, …
• 14 June

  Statement On Officer-Involved Shooting

      ******************PRESS RELEASE ********************* It has come to the City’s attention that an edited version of a police officer’s body camera footage regarding a shooting incident is on social media, along with misleading and inflammatory comments. Our Paris police officers, who place themselves at risk daily, and our citizens, …
• 14 June

  Grand Jury Indicts Teen For Bestiality

  Gregory Mosely Lopez, III A grand jury indicted Gregory Mosely Lopez, III, 18, a Temple teen, on charges he allegedly sexually assaulted and killed a canine at his home. In addition, they charged Lopez III with bestiality, and he is in Bell County Jail with a $250,000 bond. A student …
• 14 June

  Animal Cruelty In Van Zandt County

  The SPCA of Texas rescued 14 pets from an animal cruelty case in Van Zandt County on Friday. The organization and the Van Zandt County Sheriff’s Office served a search and seizure warrant where they removed five dogs, five koi fish, two cats, one macaw, and a dead cockatoo. An …
• 14 June

  Two Hotel Fires In Two Days

  Kilgore Fire Monday Night Kilgore firefighters worked a large fire Monday night at 8:00 at the Best Western Inn on business US 259 near Walmart. Longview and Sabine’s departments assisted on the 42-room two-story hotel. Reportedly, there were no injuries. The cause of a fire that injured three Jacksonville firefighters …
• 14 June

  Gunman Fatally Shot By Police At Dallas Area Summer Camp

  We’re learning new details of the events that led to a deadly officer-involved shooting inside the Duncanville Fieldhouse, where they held a summer camp for some 150 kids. Duncanville Assistant Police Chief Matthew Stogner says it started Monday morning after 8:30. Upon hearing that gunshot, counselors moved the kids to …
• 14 June

  Cornyn Working On Gun Control

  Texas Senator John Cornyn says he’s glad lawmakers have agreed on some basic principles to guide a gun safety bill after the school shooting in Uvalde. A bipartisan group of senators announced that deal on Sunday. Cornyn says the next step is to put those principles into a bill that …