Paris News

Paris Police did not respond to any calls of significance in the past 24 hour period. Paris Police responded to 77 calls for service and arrested 3 persons on August 10, 2022.

This Texas heat wave has been brutal but, so far, the state’s embattled power grid is holding up. Glenn Hamer, who heads the Texas Association of Business, says this is doing wonders to shore up the state’s reputation. He says, after covid, there is a growing push to ramp up …

Democrats in Congress are about to hand the IRS enough cash to hire 87,000 new agents. Some economists are warning that small business owners are being put in the crosshairs. Vance Ginn with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says that small business owners don’t have the money to fight the …

Your phone bill is going to get a little bit higher. A court ordered the Public Utility Commission to replenish the universal service fund to the tune of $250 million dollars. That fund helps pay for service in the state’s rural areas. Mark Seale, Executive Director of the Texas Telephone …

There’s a current uptick in coronavirus throughout the area, and the Paris Lamar County Health District still has vaccines and testing available. People can still visit the Health District from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday for Covid-19 vaccinations or testing. No appointment is necessary to test, but …

An Ada woman who conspired with a man to kill her husband, Harmony Free-Will Baptist Church Pastor David Evans, pleaded guilty to 1st degree murder in Pontotoc County.  Wednesday, forty-nine-year-old  Kristie Evans was sentenced to life in prison. She will be in her 80’s by the time she becomes eligible …

Fannin County Commissioners have hired Eikon Consulting Group to redesign a former Brookshires grocery store to be the county’s new Justice Center.  The cost of the renovation will be close to $1 million.

Carter BloodCare’s mobile donation bus will be at Dairy Queen in Cooper on Friday, Aug. 12 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.  For more information For more information or an appointment  for the upcoming blood drive contact Kelly Magnuson at 903-395-2151 or email Kelly.dairyqueen@gmail.com.

Jury selection is underway in Bowie County in the Capital Murder and Kidnapping trial of Taylor Parker, who is now 29. She’s accused of  killing 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock of New Boston who was  eight months pregnant  and cutting  the unborn infant from Hancock’s body. Prosecutors are seeking the death …

Despite the rain Tuesday and Wednesday in the area, it was nowhere near enough to mitigate the serious drought most of Northeast Texas.  Fire danger is still in the picture and the Burn bans are still in effect.