Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Eventually we learned that "she lured her husband, 47-year-old Bob Poynter, to a rural Hunt County road where her lover, Michael Glen Garza, shot him in the head. The Poynters, who had married in 2009, were in the midst of a divorce at the time Chacey Poynter started planning the slaying with Michael Glen Garza, whom she was seeing during her marriage."

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• WFAA reports that it obtained the arrest affidavit in the alleged hazing case in Boyd.  Everyone might want to tap the brakes on this one. (I can't find a PDF of the affidavtit yet.) 
  
  

  

  
  
  
• The Wise County DA won a major award from the Texas District and County Attorneys Association this week in its annual conference.
  
  
  
• Side note: The young lady on the left who is getting ignored in that post is Michelle Deuell, an assistant DA in Stainton's office. 
• I presume that the money being used to become a "sponsor" was from the sheriff's own pocket and not taxpayer money. 
  
  
  
• Nope, not a murder. She was living in the storage unit and "police said there is no evidence of foul play, and the death appears to be medical in nature."
  
  
  
• State Rep. Jeff Leach, who is the attorney for this woman, seems to have a strange infatuation with his client. 
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• And another.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Video has emerged of the Los Angeles news helicopter crashing. The pilot kept it amazingly level, but it just came in way too fast in the emergency landing.
  
  
  
• What did they do down there to deserve this? He will attend the Aggie/Kentucky game.
  

  

  
  
• Probably be a good idea to limit headlines like this from the 40 Acres. 
  
  
• Those prosthetic toes on the right belong to Deion Sanders.
  
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 77 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

And so began the murder case against Charles Bryant who would be seen on surveillance video at the Walmart in Haslet buying a shovel at 4:00 a.m. in the morning after meeting Vandagriff at a bar in Denton. 

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• The story in the Messenger is free.  The alleged hazing better be really, really bad if you are going to arrest high school students. 
  
  
  
• RIP to Sunny, originally from Boyd, Texas. 
  
  
  
• "Ohio sheriff's deputies attacked by a man trying to escape after sentencing" Video.
  
   
  
• She actually got the government to wire her the money.  (And if you were ever interested in how guilty plea goes down in federal court, her transcript is here.)
  
  
  
• Get ready. 
  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure why China would want it considering it's all going to be drone warfare in the future.
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
• He's going to tear down the Kennedy Center isn't he?
• Last night: "Trump looks at a placard that reads 'Kennedy Center DEMOLITION' as he lands at Joint Base Andrews (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Earlier in the day: 
  
  
  
• The President of the the United States: 
  
• Sports: Everything good and just is slipping away from us. 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The level of "cutesy writing" by appellate court judges just keeps increasing, and an absolute cringe opinion from federal First Circuit from yesterday is a perfect example . 
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The trial of Enrique Arochi began for the kidnapping of Christina Morris after a night out around  the Shops at Legacy in  Plano. Arochi was convicted, but Morris' remains would be not be found until two years after the trial. 

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• The price of diesel in Wise County appears to be around to $6.30 a gallon.
• Something definitely happened. 
  
  
  
• Several years of investigation and they came up with just seven people to charge?
  
  
  
• Newly appointed Texas Comptroller Don Huffines has put a kid in charge of the department. And Huffines has been throwing money at him since 2022.   Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper is in the mix, too.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of Hopper, he has a fundraiser planned where you have to spend a ton of money just to get him to stop by your table. 
  
  
  
• Pete Delkus is now being quoted in the Washington Post. 
  
  
  
  
• This happened late yesterday evening. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Isn't the guy with rifle the one to blame? 
  
  

  

  
  
• What are we doing here?
  
  
  
• Trump ranted like a madman yesterday. 
• A president accusing the opposing political party of trying to murder him would be quite the scandal a few years back. Now it is just a Tuesday. 
  
  
  
  
• Ditto. 
  
  
  
• “We don’t have an FBI Director, we have a lackey. He’s not even a good lackey, he’s an incompetent lackey. He's like an 18-year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands & chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment." Oh, my. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. A Trader' Joes is coming to Alliance. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• The Nielsen Second™. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It is 100 days until Christmas.