Palo Pinto News

"May God have mercy on your soul, you didn't have mercy on those little boys," 29th District Judge Jerry Ray said after sentencing Ian Daniel Mathison, 21, of Mineral Wells, to 22-1/2 years and 10 years for serious bodily injury to a child and bodily injury to a child respectively.

New drill: WEJCO Inc. will drill Well No. 9 on the Hubbard lease, six miles northwest of Brownwood, in the Brown County Regular field.

Opening arguments and testimony began Wednesday in the trial of Ian Daniel Mathison, 21, of Mineral Wells.

Re-completion: S.B. Street Operating Inc. will recomplete Well No. 64 on the Haskell-Sojourner Unit lease, two miles northwest of Haskell, IN the Sojourner field.

A two-car collision on Highway 180 just west of Mineral Wells claimed the life of Palo Pinto resident Betty Slay last week.