The Texarkana Gazette is reporting that Sixth District Judge Eric Clifford resigned from the bench Wednesday. The Sixth District serves Lamar and Red River counties. Clifford had been under fire since he received a 9 page reprimand from the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct on a wide range …

    The Texas Department of Public Safety is reminding Texans to remain vigilant with respect to potential crime and terrorist activity in their communities, and to report suspicious behaviors to the department’s iWATCH website at www.iwatchtx.org<http://www.iwatchtx.org>. The iWATCH program was created as a partnership between communities and law enforcement, …

      33 year old Adam Ward of Commerce was put to death by lethal injection last night in Huntsville. Ward was condemned for fatally shooting 44 year old Code Enforcement Officer Michael “ Pee Wee” Walker 11 years ago after an argument about junk in the yard in …

  8th District Judge Eddie Northcutt has sentenced Desiree Ann Smith of Sulphur Springs to 10 years in prison for theft from an elderly person.  Investigators say Smith stole 10s of thousands of dollars from a 92 year old man, who was the beneficiary of a large life insurance policy. …

  A Hopkins County grand jury has handed down  felony indictments against several dozen individuals, and several of the defendants face multiple charges. The indictments were for sexual assault, aggravated assault, assaults of public servants and drug offenses. Some of the indictments were sealed, and will not be made public …

  Greenville police and Texas Rangers are investigating after a child was brought to Hunt Regional Medical Center with life threatening injuries. The child later died of those injuries at Children’s Hospital in Dallas. The Medical Examiner has not released autopsy results on the child.

  U.S. Steel has announced the lay-offs of 450 employees at Lone Star Tubular Operations and  the idling of the plants in Morris County and Alabama.  The company blamed weak conditions in the energy market for the decision to cut jobs and shut the plants, which produce pipe and tubing …

  Mt. Pleasant police arrested two people for possession of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $10,000 each for 32 year old Candace Boswell of Arp, and 31 year old Bennie Ray Sammy Leon Lee of Tyler.

  A Mt.  Pleasant teenager was arrested by Mt. Pleasant police for burglary of a habitation. Bond was set at $10,000 for 17 year old Jacoby C. Lewis.  

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from an Upshur County man on death row for killing two men 14 years ago. The high court made no comment in its decision on the appeal from 32-year-old Clinton Lee Young of Ore City.