Paris News

Paris Texas Wine Fest is back. Join your friends for an evening to sip, savor, and shop around downtown Paris Saturday evening from 6:00 pm until 9:00. This event will highlight Texas wineries from across the state, local restaurants, food trucks, farms, and local retail shops and galleries downtown. Visit …

Saturday, May 6, at the Paris Golf and Country Club. It’s the Paris Community Theater Murder Mystery. It’s the 1940s themed. Come in costume! Live jazz band led by Tony Boss Cocktails at 6:30 and dinner and entertainment at 7:00. Tickets are $75 and purchased by calling (903)784-0259. David House …

The Sulphur Springs Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting its popular “Young Eagle Program” Saturday at Municipal Airport in Sulphur Springs. They have free airplane rides for all kids 8–17 years old. In addition, those participating will get a free logbook and will attend a free ground school …

Statement from 8th Judicial District Attorney Will Ramsay In 2019, a CPS, or their equivalent, worker in New Jersey was investigating an entirely separate matter and knocked on the door of our victim. During the interview, our victim told the investigator of the incident when visiting her dad in Sulphur …

T. G. Givens Early Childhood Center held its annual Easter egg hunt Thursday morning. After the big egg hunt, the Easter Bunny led the students around the campus to show off their fabulous Easter hats..

COMMERCE, TX—A collective featuring two Texas A&M University-Commerce faculty members are receiving a monetary award to establish a digital rhetorical privacy lab on the university campus. Dr. Charles Woods and Dr. Gavin Johnson, assistant professors in the Department of Literature and Languages at A&M-Commerce, are advisory board members of the …

Jacky Daniel McCool | Timothy Jermaine Sims Last Thursday morning at 7:48, officers worked a search warrant in the 200-block of NW 13th and made two felony arrests. They booked Jacky Daniel McCool, 28, of Paris, on an outstanding Possession of a Controlled Substance Warrant. They booked Timothy Jermaine Sims, …

The Texas Department of State Health Services has issued fish consumption advisories for lakes in East Texas and beyond. Mercury causes heavy metal poisoning, while ciguatoxin causes vomiting, diarrhea, and numbness. Dioxins are carcinogens, dieldrin can cause Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer, and PCBs can cause skin conditions and cancer. Lakes …

A Florida woman had a lot to celebrate this week after scoring the $2 million top prize from scratch off, the day after her daughter’s final cancer treatment. On Friday, Geraldine Gimblet, of Lakeland, Florida, claimed her $2 million at the Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. She used all her savings …

The Campbell Soup Company and the Campbell Soup Foundation announced they had awarded Community Impact Grants to charitable organizations nationwide, including two in the Paris Area. City Square and United Way of Lamar County each received $20,000. They chose the organizations because they focus on increasing healthy food access, encouraging …