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Paris Police spoke with a city employee at City Hall who reported that a resident who had some structural repairs on their residence had questioned a permit the contractor had given them. The contractor had made a copy of a city of Paris permit and changed the state ID number …

Fifth largest lottery jackpot prize in U.S. history; third largest in Mega Millions history AUSTIN – It continues to climb! After there were no winners for Friday night’s Mega Millions® drawing, the jackpot for the Tuesday, Jan. 10 drawing now stands at an estimated annuitized $1.1 billion, the third largest jackpot prize in Mega …

  (PARIS, Texas) – The United Way of Lamar County recently announced that three new members had joined their Board of Directors: Dr. Janice Gibbons, Melissa Allen, and Willy Dyck. Dr. Janice Gibbons was born and raised in Cisco, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in …

The Red River Homeless Coalition will conduct a Point-In-Time Count for Lamar County on January 27. Two counts will take place. One for people living on the streets or other sites not meant to be a habitation, and the other for those living in shelters. The Lamar County’s Human Resources …

The Supreme Court has revived claims by an Austin Death Row inmate who has the support of the state prosecutor’s office that put him on death row. The justices on Monday threw out a Texas appeals court ruling that refused to grant the inmate a new trial. The state appeals …

Bokchito Police responded to a disturbance and learned that 61-year-old Sidney Hawks was screaming obscenities at a woman and her children. Hawks threatened to kill the officer and began running in and out of the house. He was taken into custody and told the officers he had set a time …

Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Releases Biennial Revenue Estimate (AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar released the Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) today, projecting Texas to have a record $188.2 billion in revenue available for general-purpose spending during the 2024-25 biennium, a 26.3 percent increase from the 2022-23 biennium. …

As people have been making New Year’s resolutions, there is no better time to get a memory screening than now. A popular solution is to get healthier. Most people focus on their physical health and neglect their mental health. Annual memory screenings should be part of everyone’s health and wellness …

Experts say that the newest COVID-19 variant is so infectious that it may be “unavoidable.” But even if the XBB.1.5 variant spreads across the population like wildfire, virologist Paula Cannon doesn’t think it will lead to the societal disruptions we experienced early in the pandemic. That’s because she said we …

Just before midnight last Thursday, a 12-year-old girl woke her parents and told them she had stabbed her nine-year-old brother. She is now in a juvenile facility after Tulsa Police responded to the parent’s call at a residence in the St. Thomas Square community south of downtown Tulsa. First responders …