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903 / 430. FIPS code. 48-55080. GNIS feature ID. 1364810 [3] Website. paristexas.gov. Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.
Box office. $2.2 million [3] Paris, Texas is a 1984 neo-Western drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest. It stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, and Hunter Carson. In the film, disheveled recluse Travis Henderson (Stanton) reunites ...
White mob from Paris, Texas. Deaths. 1. 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. Smith fled, but was recaptured after a nationwide manhunt.
Here are the most recent containment numbers for all fires in the Texas Panhandle: Smokehouse Creek Fire — 1,078,000 acres and 15% contained. Windy Deuce — 140,000 acres and 55% contained.
5050 Loop 286 SE. Paris, Texas 75460. United States. Circulation. 3,032 (as of 2023) [3] Website. theparisnews.com. The Paris News is a newspaper based in Paris, Texas, covering the Northeast Texas counties of Lamar, Delta, Red River and Fannin, plus Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It publishes three days a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays).
1877 – Paris, Texas, the first of three fires that destroyed much of the town. 1877 – Saint John, New Brunswick, fire destroyed 1,600 buildings. 1878 – The Great Fire of Hong Kong destroyed 350 to 400 buildings across more than 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of central Hong Kong.
New London, Texas, U.S. Cause. Gas explosion. Deaths. 295+. Non-fatal injuries. 300+. The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States. [1] The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers.
By Juliette Jabkhiro and Michel Rose. PARIS (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a street in the busy Latin Quarter of central Paris on Wednesday, injuring about 30 people, starting fires, and ...