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Wilmer Mayor Emmanuel Wealthy-William

Wilmer Mayor Emmanuel Wealthy-William

Wilmer’s Pioneer Days parade featured past city mayors

News Staff
Thu, 10/31/2019 - 00:00
WILMER – The city of Wilmer’s Pioneer Days marked its 35th year of celebration last weekend. The festivities began on Friday, Oct. 25 with a hometown parade and culminated on Sunday with a musical line-up that began at noon.

FBI releases 2018 crime statistics

News Staff
Thu, 10/31/2019 - 00:00
For the second consecutive year, the estimated number of violentcrimesinthenationdecreased when compared with the previous year’s statistics, according to FBI figures released today. In 2018, violentcrimewasdown3.3percent from the 2017 number. Property crimes also dropped 6.
Ferris resident Terry Murphy was videoing lightening strikes toward downtown Ferris and captured this image of the funnel cloud.

Ferris resident Terry Murphy was videoing lightening strikes toward downtown Ferris and captured this image of the funnel cloud.

EF0 TORNADO HITS FERRIS

News Staff
Wed, 10/23/2019 - 11:00
FERRIS – Residents and city workers are cleaning up the city following the damage from Sunday night’s tornado. A vigorous storm system running into warm, moist and unstable air across the Southern Plains was the culprit behind the explosive thunderstorm development and subsequent tornado activity.
Brooks Williams

Brooks Williams

Williams named new city manager

News Staff
Wed, 10/23/2019 - 05:00
FERRIS – Brooks Williams became the new Ferris city manager Oct. 15. Williams joins the city of Ferris with decades of experience as a strategic planning and execution executive.

Red Oak Police make arrests in burglary

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Wed, 10/23/2019 - 05:00
RED OAK – The Red Oak Police Department arrested two burglary suspects last week in Lancaster. The arrests came after the two men were identified by a Dallas pawn shop owner as having pawned jewelry taken from a home in the 1500 block of Shawnee Road in Red Oak on Oct. 3 at around 1:10 p.m.
According to the Center for Disease Control, from 2011 to 2018 vaping has increased among high school students alone from 1.5% or about 220,000 students to 3.05 million students or 20.8% in that time period. Photo courtesy UNT Health Science Center.

According to the Center for Disease Control, from 2011 to 2018 vaping has increased among high school students alone from 1.5% or about 220,000 students to 3.05 million students or 20.8% in that time period. Photo courtesy UNT Health Science Center.

ROISD takes on vaping issue

News Staff
Wed, 10/16/2019 - 05:00
RED OAK – Everyone knows the term vaping these days. It is as popular for adults as it is for high school students. However, almost no one can really guess the side effects and health risks of this popular pastime yet.

How one Ferris family is creating PTSD awareness

News Staff
Wed, 10/16/2019 - 04:50
FERRIS - It is a condition many military men and women face when they return home from combat. A condition law enforcement officers face after seeing so much drama during their career. Often it goes untreated until it is too late.

14-Year-old dies in go-cart accident

News Staff
Wed, 10/16/2019 - 04:45
WAXAHACHIE – A 14-year-old male died Monday afternoon in a go-cart accident in the 200 block of Becky Lane. Multiple emergency responders were called to the scene of the major accident in the northern part of Waxahachie at around 12:50 p.m.

Wilmer budget approval means long-term growth

News Staff
Wed, 10/16/2019 - 04:40
WILMER – When the City of Wilmer passed its budget several weeks ago and it went into effect Oct. 1, it meant long term goals met for the growth of the city.