Cooper News

The best kept musical secret in Paris Texas is happening every Tuesday night from 6-8pm. From Clarksville & Honey Grove, to Powderly & Cooper, the bluegrass jams at 18 West Hearne are heating up! Everyone is invited to the session either to play along or to just sit and enjoy some of the best music this side of the Red River.

For two of the 2,100 students graduating from Baylor University this weekend, it took some extraordinary circumstances and a great deal of support from family and faculty to get them across the stage of the Ferrell Center.

It seems Bassmaster magazine is casting - aspersions, that is. Its recent ranking of "100 Best Bass Lakes" seems to have taken a detour around East Texas - naming, for example, Falcon Lake, as the nation's top lake for bass.

Decades-long efforts to make Texas 24 a four-lane, divided highway all 47 miles from Paris to Interstate 30 moved closer Thursday with preliminary approval in Austin of an agreement by local governing bodies to pay for right-of-way and relocation of utilities along the last 10 miles of two-lane road.

The Physical Therapist Assistant Program at Northeast Texas Community College recently learned that its graduating class of 2011 had a 100% pass rate on the first attempt for its state licensure exams.