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Taylor Parker has become the first Bowie County woman to ever be sentenced to death. It took the jury just 90 minutes to come back with Parker’s sentence, after 49 grueling days of testimony and over 140 witnesses.

Texas and Oklahoma were hit with an onslaught of severe weather, thunderstorms, and at least nine (9) tornadoes on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. And according to poweroutage.us, nearly 40,000 homes are without power in Northeast Texas. And while we East Texans are no strangers to storm damage, Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises residents to be on the lookout for storm chasers who show up unannounced, offer to repair storm damage for a low price, require advance payment and make big promises on which they have no intention of delivering.

Voter turnout in the midterm elections again dropped statewide, with just over 45% of registered voters either casting ballots early or at the polls on Nov. 8. Republican candidates continued to hold a hammerlock on statewide positions, with incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott handily winning a third term over challenger Beto O’ Rourke.

A Bowie County jury took just a little over an hour today to announce a sentence in the capital murder trial of Taylor Parker.