The Story | The Time Out convenience
store in Paradise burns to the ground. |
News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | *** |
The Spin | You now want a soft drink or
gas? That'll be at least 8 miles down the highway. (And to think
this county is growing so fast).
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The Story | The City of Decatur continues to
freak out about the proposed TXU power line. "The preferred route would
travel from Jack County and into Wise County north of Lake Bridgeport,
continue northeast of Chico and then head south toward Bridgeport
before turning eastward before it reach the city's northern edge. The
line would then travel southeast a few miles before heading east,
taking it south of Decatur . . . . " |
News worthiness | * |
The Spin | This is our best attempt to follow the route. So you want to go
from Jack County to Denton County and that's the best route? Yet
another reason alcohol should be banned. |
The Story | Boyd PD asks the county to
purchase two handguns for $604 a piece. The two officers "said they
would reimburse the city for the guns." |
News worthiness | * |
The Spin | So the city doesn't normally
pay to arm the police force? |
The Story | A
crazy brawl breaks out at the WiseGuys Paintball Park in Boyd. After an
initial confrontation with a group of patrons, a female mouths
off
that the "owner is the problem" prompting the owner to reply, "Then you
can leave too, chick." |
News worthiness | ** |
The Spin | Well there's certainly no chance of the tension escalating
at that point. |
The Story | Going
back to the paintball incident (it's just too good to pass up), one of
the alleged aggressors allegedly told the owner's wife that he was
"trained to kill" and that he had killed " a lot of people". |
News worthiness | * |
The Spin | Anyone think he has played
paintball maybe a little tooooooooo long? |