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If you’re taking your friends and family to a Texas coast, it’s important to know they’re safe and the water is clean. So Commissioner Bush called on the Texas General Land Office (GLO) to update methods of sharing this important information and create a web-based app to help Texans …
Read More »Governor Urges Texans to Continue Monitoring Weather, Flood Threats
Governor Greg Abbott Thursday urged Texans to remain vigilant and closely monitor weather conditions as rainfall is expected to continue impacting parts of Texas this week, which may lead to dangerous flash flooding and river flooding, especially in East and Southeast Texas. “After receiving a substantial amount of rainfall in …
Read More »One Dead In East Texas Crash
At approximately 6:55 Thursday morning, Troopers responded to a two vehicle fatality crash on SH-149 in Gregg County, 1.5 miles south of the city of Lakeport. Preliminary crash investigation revealed that a 2001 Ford Mustang, driven by Gregory Lloyd Mishler, 62 years of age of Gilmer, was traveling southbound on …
Read More »Hopkins County Chamber Connection
by Meredith Caddell March 10, 2016 Open House of the newly renovated City National Bank Mortgage office TONIGHT 5-6pm Please join us at City National Bank Mortgage Office, 1108 South Broadway, tonight, March 10th from 5-6pm. Stop by on your way home from work and see their beautifully …
Read More »Runoff Election For Texas Senate Seat Could Change
The candidates in Texas Senate District 1 runoff election could change after a final recount later today. On Election Day – the top vote getter was Bryan Hughes with 63,844 votes. In second place was David Simpson, who edged third place finisher Jim Red Brown by 13 votes meaning Simpson …
Read More »East Texas School Resource Officer Arrested
A Kaufman ISD school resource officer has been arrested for sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child. Officer Daniel Carrier bonded out of jail on bonds of $10,000 each. The district is on Spring Break, and it hasn’t been disclosed whether the alleged victim was …
Read More »Killer of Five Executed
58 year old Coy Westbrook was executed Wednesday night for killing 5 people in 1997. Prosecutors say he went to his ex-wife’s home in Channelview, found her in bed with two men and shot all three of them. He then killed another man and another woman at the …
Read More »Deadly Narcotic Being Sold On-Line
The Poison Control Center at Parkland Hospital is warning the public about an extremely dangerous drug being sold online called U-47700. The drug can cause respiratory depression which is a potentially life-threatening condition that can be brought on by the use of strong opioids. U-47700 is 7 ½ times …
Read More »East Texas Law Enforcement Disables Stolen Truck, Arrests Driver
Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers assisted in the apprehension of stolen vehicle and dangerous driver in Harrison County. Just before noon today, the Marshall Police Department was notified of a stolen truck-tractor. Celadon Trucking Services Inc. tracked the truck to the city of Marshall. Harrison County deputies …
Read More »BREAKING NEWS – Dixon Changes Plea In Sexual Assault Trial.
Midway through his trial in Hopkins County on multiple sexual assault charges a 21 year old Sulphur Springs man has changed his plea to guilty. Hunter James Dixon was then sentenced by Judge Eddie Northcutt to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
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