My family and I will be wathching the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States at the Southside on Lamar this Tuesday. This free event is hosted by Jan Gore, owner and operator Texas Caribbean Foods. Anyone who wants to share in this wonderful experience can call...
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, I of course still felt like he had stolen the election. But since he was from Texas I had made up my mind to give him the benefit of the doubt. The Democrats of Texas had “misunderestimated” Bush when he campaigned to...
I apologize for taking so long to get to this story. This is video of the tragic killing of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Rapid Transit Officers on New Year’s Day. I don’t know a lot about Grant’s background, but according to a family member in a press conference, he...
Dallas Police Department Senior Cpl. Norman Smith, 43, was killed in the line of duty on Tuesday evening at an East Oak Cliff apartment. Smith is the first Dallas officer shot and killed on duty since Mark Nix in 2007. 26 year-old Charles Patrick Payne has been arrested and charged...
I received a text message out of Louisiana today late this afternoon: Mychal Bell arrested for shoplifting and assault for hitting a security guard with his elbow trying to get away. A quick check of the net proved my source was right on it. According to the News-Star out of...
“LET FREEDOM SING: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement” to Premiere on TV One on Feb. 15 during Black History Month 2009 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Brainstorm Media, Time Life, TV One and MarVista Entertainment announced today the production of LET FREEDOM SING: How Music Inspired the...
Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune updates the happening in Paris, Texas as a Lamar County grand jury has indicted Shannon Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley in the death of Brandon McClelland. Here are a few excerpts from Witt’s Friday story in the Tribune. A grand jury in the racially-troubled...
Mary Madewell and the Paris News report that Toby Shook has been assigned as special prosecutor in the murder cases of Shannon Finley and Ryan Crostley. Finley and Crostley are accused of murdering Brandon McClelland, whose body was presumably run over by a pickup truck. This comes after Lamar County...
In Monday morning’s Dallas Morning News, Richard Abshire follows up on the death of Brandon McClelland in Paris, Texas. Two suspects are in custody for running over Brandon and dragging him after a night of drinking. Richard worked on this story for weeks, and though there’s not a lot of...
Two weeks ago (Sept. 16) Brandon McLelland was murdered outside of my hometown of Paris, Texas. Here’s how the story of Brandon’s death was related on an East Texas radio station: A Lamar County man was killed Tuesday morning by an apparent hit and run driver. The Department of Public...
