John Wright

John is Editor of Parker Live. He is also the host of a daily afternoon radio show on KLPZ 1380am and a documentary filmmaker.

Vehicle plows into Circle K

A vehicle crashed into the front of a Circle K gas station Tuesday and then took off. A store employee told Parker Live the incident was over before he saw anything. “Honestly I don’t know how it happened,” he said. “I just heard a loud boom and by the time I saw it he was taking off.” Parker Police Department …

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Viewfinder: Ashley Hoban takes 4 more national powerlifting awards

Parker’s Ashley Hoban took 4 awards at the AAU Sports National Championship Powerlifting Meet last weekend, including first place in her class and highest coefficient of all females in the competition, according to her Facebook page. “I weighed in at 138 and I benched 135, squatted 200, and deadlifted 320! I know these lifts might not be my personal bests, …

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Parker P.D. respond to apparent murder-suicide

The Parker Police Department responded to a ‘shots fired’ call early Friday morning and found two people with gunshot wounds to the head. According to a press release by Sergeant Mike Bailey, when the officers arrived to the house on the 1500 Block of 15th Street, it was discovered that a female subject was lying on the floor of the …

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Parker Livecast #24: Sheriff’s Curt Bagby on the weirdest week of his career

Lieutenant Curt Bagby has been in law enforcement for over two decades, but he’s never had a week like this: spent mostly dealing with calls from media outlets around the world who all want information about a completely unimportant story about the discovery of two Costco skeletons on the bed of the Colorado River north of Parker. Bagby has been …

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Town of Parker to perform road maintenance

UPDATE: Work pushed back to begin on May 20th. The Town of Parker Public Works Department plans to perform road maintenance on various streets, beginning later this month. The work to apply a scrub seal treatment to some Parker roads is planned to begin May 17th May 20th, 2015. “The work will cause a disruption to motoring around certain parts …

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mystery solved! Skeleton Tea Party planners come forward

“We never imagined that anybody would ever find them” – Skeletons were placed by dive buddies from Phoenix – They hoped the media sensation would blow over – They met with sheriff’s officials Thursday The people at the center of an international news story around the discovery of a mysterious fake skeleton ‘tea party’ at the bottom of the Colorado …

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Top 20 Internet Comments About Bernie The Skeleton

After Parker’s ‘Bernie The Skeleton’ story hit the news Monday, it did what we expected and went viral. People are now getting a laugh out of the Bernie discovery all across the nation and the world, with news coverage from outlets like Fox News, Associated Press, NBC, USA Today, The Daily Mail and more. Below, Parker Live presents the 20 …

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