This year Bowie County’s Congressman Pat Fallon established the Congressional Veterans Commendation Award. In a Thursday, November 10th ceremony, held on the field at the Plano Flags of Honor site, Bowie County Veterans Richard Hall, Harold “Ray” Scott, and James “Vance” Scott were presented with the first ever Veterans Award.
Monday, November 7, 2022, was the 22nd anniversary of daily deaths on Texas roadways since November 7, 2000. In the first half of 2022, over half of those killed in crashes were not wearing their seatbelts.
What is often known as “The Old Corner Store,” or “The Flashing Light,” or most recently, “Epperson Fireworks,” took a direct hit in the tornado that devastated so many in the area.
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.
A Bowie County jury took just a little over an hour today to announce a sentence in the capital murder trial of Taylor Parker.
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