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With hundreds of free events throughout July, organizers of Reno's 14th annual Artown festival are promoting this year's celebration as the perfect vacation destination for families on a budget.

Fourth of July promises to be an exciting weekend for residents of Paris and the surrounding area.

Bell employee Joseph "Pepi" Sposito, carries picket sign at the Bell Helicopter plant in Hurst,Texas, Monday, June 15, 2009 after members of the United Auto Workers Local 218 voted to reject a contract with Bell Helicopter resulting at a strike.

June 16 - Harding & Parker, druggists, will occupy the first floor of the Iroquois building.

Saturday's Games Toronto 5, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 2 Detroit 6, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 10, Cleveland 5 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 14, Oakland 1 Seattle 4, L.A. Angels 3, 10 innings Sunday's Games Cleveland 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 Boston 8, Toronto 2 Detroit 3, Baltimore 0 Minnesota 3, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City ...

Chad Thacker of Paris took first at Paris Motor Speedway Saturday after starting in 16th place.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ruled in favor of Detroit Independent School District in a lawsuit that challenged the school district's right to discipline students for using a school computer in a way that violates DISD rules.

Red River Valley voters will go to the polls May 9 to elect school trustees to serve on boards in most of the area's school districts while other boards have declared winners and cancelled elections due to a lack of competition for unpaid positions.

Poignant, haunting photographs of Poland's Jewish communities taken in the 1930s by Roman Vishniac, and images of many of the same areas taken in the 1990s by Jeffrey Gusky are the subject of the moving exhibition Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky.

The filing period has ended for area city council positions, and local candidates in contested elections must now wait for the results on May 9. Contested local elections include Honey Grove, Bogata and Reno.

Harold 'Boots' Chumley, 85, of Dallas passed away, Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at Presbyterian Hospital.

Achievement test scores at big-city school districts in Texas still lag far behind their suburban and rural counterparts but they're making great strides and narrowing the gap, according to a report by an ...

Monroe Travis 'Tom' Hardin, 71, of Paris passed away Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, at Clyde Cosper Veterans Home in Bonham.

Paris Independent School District will be bankrupt in two years unless the Texas Legislature changes funding formulas this year, according to Superintendent Paul Trull and the PISD school board.

Red River Valley school districts for the most part did well by state standards academically during 2008 while all districts dealt with budget restraints as Texas schools entered the second year of a biennium ...

William Perdue, 86, of Detroit passed away, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at Paris Healthcare Center.