Billy Hooper News Today

"Black History Month to me is Theodore Tiger Flowers. Theodore Tiger Flowers became the first black boxer to obtain the world middleweight championship," writes local author Anyla McDonald.

Poteau, Oklahoma residents rejected proposals to let the city council hire police chiefs and street commissioners.

The Poteau City Council will have its January meeting at approximately 5:40 p.m. Tuesday at Poteau City Hall. The new starting times for each months meetings were approved at the

By Sherry Hamilton on May 5, 2021 Billy Hooper William Wellington “Billy” Hooper of Mathews was sentenced to life in prison on Monday by Judge David Novak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond. The sentence came after a jury trial last September, during which Hooper was convicted of four counts of crimes involving minors. At that time, it took the jury less than an hour and a half to deliberate before returning guilty verdicts on charges of conspiracy t...

Back in the mid-seventies I wrote some stuff for an HTV film which included the line: "Photographs are just memories, captured on a screen," and the snaps I include in these TRMs undoubtedly prove my point. Here are some of your memories received following last weeks pictures. Firstly - re the Milford Fishmarket snap: From Nicky Lovell (via WT online) "My dad started as a box runner at 15, and still worked the docks til he was 68." Ann Davies (WT online) "Remember going there with my Gram...