Repairs get underway today ( Monday ) on FM 1870 between Hopkins CR 2309 and Hwy 11. The $1.7 million project will include extending drainage and other structures, widening the subgrade, and adding prime and a two-course surface treatment to the roadway. ork should be completed by August, …
Read More »Hopkins County Clerk Nominated For Award
The Region VI County and District Clerk’s Association has nominated Hopkins County Clerk Debbie Shirley as Texas County Clerk of the year. She was nominated by her peers in Region VI, which includes all 35 counties in Northeast Texas.
Read More »Tiede Due Back In Court
A case of a former East Texas funeral director and choir director accused of shooting a widow and hiding her body in a freezer for nine months heads back to a courtroom April 6 for a new sentencing trial. Bernie Tiede was convicted in Panola County of murdering …
Read More »Texas Bluebonnets
Texas springtime brings flowers to fields and roadsides and a question to the minds of nature lovers – is it really illegal to pick bluebonnets? The answer is no – there is no law against picking our State Flower. However, there are laws against criminal trespass – …
Read More »Three Charged After Walmart Theft
Three men were arrested after they were reported to Sulphur Springs police for theft from the local Walmart. An officer stopped the pickup described by store security on Mockingbird but one suspect bailed out of the vehicle and fled on foot. 45 year old Velvin Stewart Skinner was …
Read More »Hopkins County Deputies arrested 47 year old John Henri Bonner of Dallas after he was indicted on felony forgery charges. Bonner is also wanted on unrelated Brazos County warrants. Bond was set at $5,000.
Read More »Bond Denied For Man Accused of Evidence Tampering
A 25 year old Winona man was brought back to Sulphur Springs from Athens, where he was being held on a Hopkins County warrant. Michael Wayne Humphrey is charged with fabricating or tampering with evidence relating to a drug charge. He’s being held without bond in the Hopkins …
Read More »A&M-Commerce Professor Awarded Air Force Grant
Dr. Unal “Zak” Sakoglu of the Computer Science Department was awarded with a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (ARFL) Summer Faculty Fellowship award for the summer of 2016. Sakoglu won the award for his research proposal on “Applications of Infrared Sensor Technology.” He will be spending most of his …
Read More »Authorities Identify Men Found Dead Near Train Tracks
Authorities have identified the two men who were found dead near some railroad tracks in Longview. Investigators say 20 year old Dekeilen Joe Nelson of Gilmer and 28 year old Kevin Lorenzo Stephenson of Henderson had been shot to death. Their deaths are being investigated as a double homicide.
Read More »East Texas Woman Charged With Impersonating Officer
An East Texas woman has been arrested for impersonating a police officer, Investigators say 38 year old Jennifer McGowen of Chandler showed up at a Henderson County crime scene wearing a pistol on her hip, and told officers she was a Van Zandt County deputy. One of the …
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