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In 1916, a devastating fire destroyed most of Paris' downtown area, including the newspaper office and all records. Sayers continued as publisher until early April 1920, when he sold the paper the North Texas Publishing Company, whose principal shareholders were Paris business people – Harry Thomas Warner (1870–1925), former managing editor ...
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a major influence on the music of Asleep at the Wheel during its formative years. According to frontman Ray Benson, the band was initially "pretty primitive ... playing hippie-country-western-rock", before he heard Merle Haggard's tribute to Wills, A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills), which was released in ...
Henry Smith (1876 – February 1, 1893) was an African-American youth who was lynched in Paris, Texas.Smith allegedly confessed to murdering the three-year-old daughter of a law enforcement officer who had allegedly beaten him during an arrest.
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Leona Belle Helton (born January 7, 1943, in Vienna, Missouri, United States) is an American country music singer known professionally as Leona Williams.Active since 1958, Williams has been a backing musician for Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard and The Strangers.
A Southwest Airlines passenger has been taken to a hospital for an evaluation after he opened the plane’s emergency exit hatch and exited onto the plane's wing on Sunday, officials said.
Two people are missing and four are in critical condition after dozens were injured in a powerful explosion in a building in central Paris.. The explosion at around 4:55pm local time yesterday at ...
On June 30, 1980, its call-letters and music format was changed to KTXU as an AOR format and was known to be the first radio station in the Paris area to broadcast in stereo, branded as "99 FM". During its earlier years, KTXU is the main station for the Paris Wildcats high-school team. KTXU is also a sister-station to its longtime AM station KPLT.