Paris News

  During an awards ceremony this week, the top Accelerated Readers at Everett Elementary were announced.  Roselyn Spencer was the top reader in third grade while Montgomery Clark received the honor for second grade. Throughout the year, chances to win bicycles were earned with every 10 AR points.  This week …

  The first Friday Cruise night will  be Friday June 3rd from 7-9 PM on the Plaza. Come out and check out the old cars driving and parked downtown with live music by Dale Cummins singing 50s & 60s music.

  A Shelbyville man who just completed serving a sentence in Arkansas for armed robbery has been brought back to Lamar County  to begin serving a sentence in Texas for robbing two people at knifepoint in 1998. 39  year old Ryan Ballard was sentenced to 30 years in Texas for …

  The North Lamar Pantherettes are headed  to the Class 4A state softball championships. The Pantherettes downed  Needville 7-6 in eight innings on Thursday afternoon and will face La Grange tomorrow morning at 10AM.   The game will be broadcast live on MIX 107.7 and streamed live on the internet at easttexasradio.com …

  Retail gasoline prices have climbed another 4 cents across Texas this week. AAA Texas reported that Dallas and Fort Worth have the most expensive gasoline in Texas this week at $2.19 per gallon. Corpus Christi has the cheapest gas statewide at $2.04 per gallon. The statewide average is $2.12.

  The Red River Valley Tourism Association is again hosting the US Hwy 82/287 Yard Sale in the Red River Valley area, North Texas and Southern Oklahoma today and tomorrow. There will be yard sales, garage sales, sidewalk sales, farmers markets and flea markets in participating communities covering 425 miles …

  42 year old Billy Jenkins surrendered at the Paris PD Station on outstanding warrants issued by the Lubbock Sheriff’s Office. One warrant was for a parole violation and the other a motion to adjudicate guilt.

  Paris PD Captain Jimmy Steed has retired from the Paris Police Department. Steed, who served for more than 30 years is leaving the department to become the new Lamar County Justice of the Peace for Precinct 4. A come and go retirement reception will be held today from 11:30 …

  A former Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex offender who had been on the run for more than 5 years before his arrest in Oregon, is set for a hearing in Lamar County District Court. Donald Jack Robertson II is charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, …

  Paris police made contact with 25 year old  Cam Preston  in the 3700 block of Pine Mill Rd in regards to an outstanding warrant. He was arrested on the warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Paris police responded to several burglary complaints.  Officers were told that a …