The Academy of Country Music Awards will be held next year on May 11 at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, an indoor football stadium at Dallas Cowboys team headquarters. The ACM will be exclusively live-streamed on Amazon Prime Video in 2023.
Read More »Choctaw County Man Wanted For Robbery, Kidnapping
Johnathan Dakota “Bolo” Hinsley Choctaw County Sheriff Choctaw County deputies are searching for a man wanted for Armed Robbery and Kidnapping. Johnathan Dakota “BOLO” Hinsley is considered armed and dangerous. They could charge anyone who aids Hinsley with harboring a fugitive.
Read More »The Potential For Significant Wildfires Continues This Week
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—The fire environment, characterized by critically to parched vegetation and critical fire weather, will support wildfire activity this week. Areas of concern include the eastern Rolling Plains, Cross Timbers, Central Texas, North Texas near the Waco and Dallas-Fort Worth areas, and south along the I-35 corridor near the …
Read More »Lamar County COVID Update
Qualifying Full-Time PJC Students To Get Free Laptops
Paris Junior College will give laptops to qualifying full-time students in the fall semester. To qualify, students must register for a minimum of 12 semester credit hours, of which nine of those hours must be in face-to-face classes, whether in Fall one or two eight-week terms or the Fall …
Read More »Parechovirus Hits Newborn Babies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning a virus that can cause severe illness or death in newborn babies is circulating in “multiple states” after it killed a baby boy in Connecticut. The parechovirus (PARE-co-VIRUS), or PeV, is common in children. According to the CDC, most kids will …
Read More »Keep A Cool Car
With temps continuing to remain well above 100, many auto repair shops are seeing more customers coming in with car trouble. The biggest issue is repairing the thing most of us are using nonstop right now, the air conditioner. On your own, check your battery, coolant, and antifreeze, and pay …
Read More »Paris Police Report For Tuesday (Jul 19)
Willie James Chandler, Jr. Paris Police arrested Willie James Chandler, Jr., 63, at his residence on a Florida parole violation warrant. They placed Chandler in the Lamar County Jail. Paris Police responded to a theft of a vehicle in the 2400-block of NE Loop 286 at 5:25 Monday afternoon. Someone …
Read More »High Heat And The Grid
The south has been inside a heat wave, and there have already been calls for conservation in Texas. A lack of wind power has been a big issue, but experts say solar electricity remains high. Daniel Cohan at Rice University says we do not need to throw taxpayer dollars at …
Read More »Terror Suspects At The Border
The latest border report reveals that federal agents caught six people flagged on the terror watch list in June. Former Border Patrol Chief Victor Manjarrez says that is likely the tip of the iceberg. He teaches at the University of Texas in El Paso and says that the so-called get-a-ways …
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