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The Texas Department of Public Safety has announced that one person has been pronounced dead following a three-vehicle collision on US Highway 377 Sunday evening.

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Sherman's Planning and Zoning Commission has cleared the way for a new battery storage power station along Interurban Parkway. The request for a specific use permit to allow for the station, which received one dissenting vote, will now go forward to the City Council for final approval.

Before the Texas Revolution and the annexation debates of the 1830s and 1840s, portions of Texas were briefly considered part of the United States, all stemming from the Louisiana Purchase. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States doubled in size overnight. America had pushed far to the West into the wide expanses of the High Plains and to the frontiers of Texas. The French government was very evasive in what they considered to be the extent of the Louisiana Territory. The question of whether the United States owned any portion of Texas was ultimately put in the hands of one of America’s top diplomats, John Quincy Adams.

Fannin County grand jurors returned 22 indictments on 22 cases this week. So far this year, Fannin County grand jurors have indicted 149 cases.