I have had a chance to speak to a number of residents in Paris, Texas regarding the fallout from the sentencing of a 14 year-old student invovled in shoving a hall monitor at school. The story has taken on a life of its own on the internet, television, and here...
Please keep the family of Senior Cpl. Mark T. Nix in your prayers. The 33-year-old Dallas Police officer was killed on Friday in a shootout in West Dallas.
Broken Schools Last summer my cousin Tina alerted me to some protests that were going on in Paris. To her knowledge, the Black Panthers and Texas NAACP were participating in the demonstrations along with community leaders that would target the Paris Independent School District (PISD). Everything that I knew about...
I'm going to come address the situation in Paris from three different angles: Broken Homes Broken Schools Broken Justice Disclaimer: I do not know Shaquanda Cotton nor her mother Creola Cotton. I am a graduate of Paris High School and I have two nephews and a godson currently enrolled at...
The Dallas South Challenge is on, and Kevin Posey is the leader in the clubhouse with 56 points. Mr. Posey's basketball brain was the biggest, predicting 15 of the 16 teams left in the tournament. The top three point earners stack up like this. 1. Kevin Posey 56 points 2. ...
It was a strange story from the beginning, a story that my mom was skeptical of from the very beginning. We watched Fox 4's report of the two missing Terrell women on last nights 9 o'clock newscast. By the time I watched the story again, it seemed like this would...
Many of you know that I was born and raised in Paris, Texas. For months, I have been following a truly disturbing situation that has been unfolding in my hometown. The news of this story made it's way to the Chicago Tribune last week (click link to get the Tribune's...
Fox 4 News reports that the two women from Terell missing since Saturday have been found safe in Lampasas. The women had been last seen on their way to Mesquite to view a movie. The report of them being found came less than 2 hours after Fox led their newscast...
Today President Bush actually acknowledged the 4th anniversary of his war in Iraq. It was March 19, 2003 when President George W. Bush came before us the American People to let us know that our country was at war. This coming without an actual declaration of war. Things began to...
Texas A&M was able to hold on for a 72-69 victory over a game Louisville squad in a 2nd Round NCAA tournament matchup. In a back and forth contest, the third-seeded Aggies were able to stop Louisville's Edgar Sosa in the games final seconds before Law iced the game with...
