Bowie County

He says his experience with the industry informs the safeguards he would demand for data centers here in Georgia.

So I went to Bowie County, Texas the other day to see the project site and talk with the people living around it, and what I found was a community divided over this in- enormous investment and residents asking why they didn't know more about it sooner.

Honestly, we feel like we're being invaded.

Uh, we're having data centers just come in.

We go in, we discuss it with them, and they just continue on regardless.

So Patricia, that was Paula Sorensen.

She's one of the ringleaders of this movement, uh, against data centers in Bowie County, Texas.

Um, it started with a, a, a different data center that was being built far closer to a lot of neighborhoods and homes in that part of Texas.

On October 16th, she was extradited to Texas.

A Bowie County grand jury later indicted her in connection with the deaths of Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby.

Prosecutors announced that they would seek the death penalty.

¶¶ After Taylor Parker's arrest, investigators and prosecutors traced her history.

On November 9th of 2022, she was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Reagan and her baby, making her one of only seven women on death row in Texas, and also the youngest one.

Bowie County District Attorney Kelly Crisp stated that the ruling brought some semblance of closure to Reagan's grieving family, stating, quote, "When you talk with them, they are filled with joy and peace.

They will always mourn the loss of Reagan and baby Braxlin, but they do not live lives marked by anger or even sadness.

My prayer is that Reagan's memory will always be a blessing for this family."

I started off right away, like, scrolling social media, and You know, just looking for news.

What happened last night? What's going on? You know, what was the yeah, I knew what the verdict was on that cat in over in Bowie County.

I don't think they got

sentenced.

the Senate sentencing today.

Johnny, did you hear it? Did Wes talk about that on the news?

I believe so, but yeah, the sentencing is going to be done today, but the judge did hand him over to the Bi-State Justice Building and put him in the Bowie County lockup.

Yeah, he got revoked right away, so that's going on.

Ha ha.

So, I mean, and then the news source that put that out there had to go back and share that and had to even say that there's no charges or anything from the Bowie County or anything.

So, I mean, chasing that traffic.

Yeah, well, there you go.

Uh, how about some additional truck parking? Yeah, plans for a brand-new truck parking along Interstate 30, uh, in the northeastern part of Texas, uh, set to add another 175 spots once the project's completed.

Uh, the truck parking will be constructed in Bowie County, Texas, starting October, next month here.

Uh, the work will take place on both sides of I-30, uh, near County Road 4204, which is west, uh, west of Farm to Market Road, uh, in the Texarkana region.

Uh, the project will require the construction of entrance and exit ramps for the new parking area on the east and westbound sides.

My name is Jeff Shell.

I am here as a special prosecutor on behalf of the Bowie County Criminal District Attorney's Office and its elected criminal district attorney, Jerry Rochelle.

If there's one salient point I would like to make this morning, it is this.

That a reasonable jury in Bowie County, Texas.

could have found the essential element of born alive beyond a reasonable doubt.

And that, secondly, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the extraneous offenses during both the guilt innocence phase as well as the punishment phase.