| The Story | At a political forum,
Sheriff's candidate Ed Hart criticizes current sheriff's employees for
not doing better investigations. He added that his comment might be
"political suicide". |
| News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | ** |
| The Spin | Note to self: If the term "political suicide" jumps
into your brain during political forum, think twice about saying it. |
| The Story | Sheriff's candidate Berry
White told the group at the same political forum that Wise County was
the drug capital of the state. |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | It's not quite as catchy as
"Eighter From Decatur" and it might be a hard sell to the local
chambers of commerce. |
| The Story | Christopher
Matthew Young, 20, a former clerk at a convenience store in Boyd was
arrested for credit card abuse after allegedly stealing the credit card
numbers off of various customers cards. |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | No more risky transactions
for us - from now on we are are only giving our credit card number out
on the Internet. |
| The Story | The City of Decatur issues a $1.8 million building permit to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints. |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | "You may not understand us,
but we can build big buildings, too" |
| The Story | The Messenger runs
an article on Robert and Lahoma Cartwright who are celebrating 63 years
of marriage. They started dating in 1938 when Robert was 20 and Lahoma
was 14. |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | We don't think you could get away that in 2004. |
| The Story | Sixteen year old Amy Smith
is missing from Newark but may be in the Sulpher Springs area where her
boyfriend lives. |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | Hey, what do you think this is? 1938? |