Paris News

Paris ISD recently hired Kelly Stapleton as the new Career and Technology Education (CTE) Director. Mrs. Stapleton is a Texas A&M University – College Station and Lamar University graduate. She joins Paris ISD with 17 years in education as a CTE teacher and one year as a Texas AgriLife Extension …

Paris ISD students and parents will be seeing some new and familiar faces in the principal’s chair at two different campuses this year. At Crockett Intermediate School, Kimberly Donnan will be the new principal. She has been the principal at Aikin Elementary for the past eight years. She recently completed …

Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company’s workers broke down early Wednesday, blaming each side for walking away from talks. The Teamsters have recently imposed several deadlines for United Parcel Service negotiators to make their “last, best, and final” offer to its unionized workers. Union …

There were three million-dollar winners after Wednesday’s $546 million Powerball drawing. Still, since no one matched all five white balls and the Powerball, the jackpot rises to $590 million for the next drawing on Saturday. Players in Florida, New York, and Ohio matched all five but not the Powerball for …

Devonte Demond Williams Wednesday morning at 8:50, Paris Patrol Officer noticed Devonte Demond Williams, 23, of Paris, walking in the roadway despite a provided sidewalk in the 400 block of SE 12th. He knew Williams had an outstanding felony warrant for the April 2023 burglary of Cotton Restaurant. The officer …

A Collin County gunman who killed 23 people at an EL Paso Walmart in 2019 returned to federal court for sentencing. Patrick Crusius, 24 years old, of Allen, faces multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to federal hate crime and weapons charges. State charges are still pending, and there is …

Due to the hot temperatures on Tuesday, personnel challenges, and the volume of sanitation, Paris sanitation crews will finish Tuesday’s sanitation route on Thursday, Jul 6. They will pick up Wednesday’s sanitation route on Friday, Jul 7, and Thursday on Saturday, Jul 8. Call the City Public Works Department at …

Paris Junior High Principal Kristi Callihan is among the 50 school leaders across Texas selected as the 2023 cohort of educators. She will attend summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It is sponsored by the Charles Butt Foundation, a non-profit pursuing a more …

  Recent Paris High School graduates will join other students from around the United States to participate in The American Exchange Project. The American Exchange Project (AEP) is a national non-profit organization exposing the next generation of young Americans to new perspectives, dissolving stereotypes, and showing that despite divergent opinions, …