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Elon Musk CEO Tesla After moving the Tesla headquarters to the new Austin gigafactory, CEO Elon Musk says production is impacted significantly by the months-long supply chain shortage and four-decade-high inflation. In a recent chat with the Tesla Owners Club, Musk calls the Austin gigafactory a “gigantic money furnace” He …

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says he is initiating a plan to ensure we place armed security officers in every Texas school cafeteria during mealtimes. It comes a month after the massacre in Uvalde. Rice University political scientist Mark Jones calls this symbolic. Miller’s job is …

Clarksville Mayor Ann Rushing introduced the new City Manager at this week’s City Council meeting. Deana Smith will replace Damien Carrasco, who announced his resignation in October. Smith had recently retired after 24 years from Post, Texas, where she served as municipal clerk, the city secretary, city manager, and the …

The Reno Summer Celebration and Barbecue Cook-off will be Saturday from noon until dark at Kiwanis Park. There will be many vendors, bounce houses, a water slide at the event, and live music. The grand finale will be a Fireworks show. For more information, call 903-785-6581 or visit the website …

An Amateur Radio Field Day will be on Saturday and Sunday at Love Civic Center in Paris. Amateur Radio Operators, known as “Hams,” build, plan, organize the right skills and gear, and once a year, jerk the plug out of the wall, drag their equipment out in the open, and …

  Derek Robert Hamm TYLER, Texas– U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced that a Tyler man pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas. Derek Robert Hamm, 38, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, violating the Stolen Valor Act, using a fraudulent military discharge certificate, and being …

Diamonte Jakeli Paynes Aleigha Denise Coble They have extradited to Hopkins County two murder suspects arrested by Hopkins County Deputies and a Texas Ranger in St. Louis. Authorities are accusing 27-year-old Diamonte Jakeli Paynes of Fort Worth and 20-year-old Aleigha Denise Coble of Colbert, Oklahoma, of killing 35-year-old Giovanni Alexis …

Mark Curtis Smith Paris Police stopped a vehicle in the 200-block of Graham St at 1:38 Wednesday afternoon for an expired registration violation. The driver, Mark Curtis Smith, 62, of Paris, had an outstanding felony Lamar County bond surrender warrant. Officers arrested Smith and placed him in the Lamar County …

The Marion County Judge banned all outdoor burning throughout the county due to the continued hot, dry conditions. In addition, Panola County’s Judge declared a threat of wildfires, and a burn ban is in effect county-wide for the next seven days. Van Zandt County enact a burn ban. Judge Robert D. …

v The triple-digit temperatures are showing no sign of slowing, but, so far, the Texas power grid is holding up. Professor Michael Webber at the University of Texas says we’re getting bailed out by green energy. At times, wind and solar power supply 40 percent of the power that the …