Fake bills still in circulation

POLICE REPORT Two weeks ago, Rockdale police expressed the hope all the “Hollywood money” counterfeit bills circulating around town had been accounted for. That turned out to be a bit premature. Lt. Stephen Goodrich said two more of the phony bills, both $20s, turned up during the week.

One arrest, one sought in shooting

SHERIFF’S REPORT Cameron Police and the Bell County Sheriff’s Department have arrest one suspect in connection with the shooting of a Cameron man on Sept. 13. Atorios Marquis “Li’l Man” Williams, 21, was wanted in connection with the shooting of 28-year-old Keelon Williams of Calvert. K.

10 years

EDITORIAL It was exactly 10 years ago—Oct. 2, 2008, to be exact—when the “other shoe” dropped. That’s when Alcoa announced it was closing the remaining three potlines at Rockdale Operations.

Are smartphones making our teens dumb?

OUTLAW INLAW Cell phones are the single best and worst invention in my lifetime. When I’m trying to research a story or call a source or when I’m trying to find my family at the store, I often wonder how I survived without this little gadget for the first 25 years of my life.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... It was all war news. Leroy Pickens, the first Milam County soldier to be wounded in France, sent his mother on Rockdale Rural Route 3, a grim souvenir, a piece of metal from a German airplane stained with the blood of an enemy officer “who was shot with a rifle at very close range.

THEY REALLY SAID THAT?

“The best thing about being an Olympic chamption? They have to wait four years before they get a chance to beat you.” —Usain Bolt

No doubt at all

Lift up your eyes “If a man die, shall he live again?” That haunting question comes to us more and more. Let me share with you a true story. It was without doubt the most trying moment of the young minister’s life.

BIBLE VERSE

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. —Psalms 145:18 (KJV)