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Submitted By Butch Burney The Annual Cinco de Mayo celebration will start at lunchtime on Saturday and continue into the evening at Celebration Plaza. We invite everyone to join the food and fun in downtown Sulphur Springs. Several bands will play throughout the day, with food stations and vendors. Countywide …

  Tuesday morning at 8:52, a caller reported a criminal trespassing on the 3000 block of NE Loop 286. Police made contact with Tra’Vion De’Marcus Johnson, 18, wanted for a third-degree felony warrant from an incident occurring in February of this year. That was when Johnson had choked a woman …

Tuesday night, April 30, at 9:11, they dispatched the Paris EMS, Paris Fire, and Paris Police to the 600 block of Evergreen Street and SE 6th for a significant motor vehicle accident involving an injury involving a Nissan Rogue and a bicyclist. EMS and Fire arrived and provided life-saving medical procedures …

The federal government’s mandate that hospitals report COVID-19 rates ended today. Experts say data was vital to ending the pandemic. Dr. Gerald Parker at Texas A&M says other surveillance systems are in place that rely on a network of labs and clinics. There is also wastewater surveillance. Today’s end to …

  As the Pro-Palestinian protests at several Texas colleges continued, Texas Senator John Cornyn says many of these gatherings have crossed over into hate speech and violence. He commended the response at UT-Austin. He says many of the presidents at Ivy League schools like Columbia and Harvard have given in to …