By Meredith Caddell Attention all Bicyclists…Spring Fever Bike Rally will take place in SS, March 12h! Mark your calendars NOW for the Spring Fever Bike Rally sponsored by the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce. Bikers will have the opportunity to ride in one of 4 rides…10 miles, …

      Texas Department of Public Safety  Director Steven McCraw is upholding his preliminary decision to terminate Trooper Brian Encinia from the department for reasons related to the trooper’s traffic stop of Sandra Bland on July 10, 2015. As permitted by the department’s termination proceedings, following the preliminary termination …

    Eleven people have been indicted on federal charges involving conspiracy to commit an offense and to defraud the U.S. government and theft of government property or money in the Eastern District of Texas. The defendants were named in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury  charging them …

    Sulphur Springs police arrested a Barksdale, Louisiana man last night on sex charges. 27 year old Philip Justin Rhone was booked into the Hopkins County jail for online solicitation of a minor – sexual conduct and sexual assault of a child. The arrest took place at a local …

    A 47 year old Arkansas man has pleaded guilty in Hopkins County to sexual assault of a child. As a result of a plea bargain, Timothy Darren Cameron of Van Buren was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was arrested last October for online solicitation of a …

  The owner of a Mineola restaurant destroyed by fire late Sunday night says he plans to re-open the eatery. Wing-Dingers owner Chris Fischer says he will rebuild at the same location, and the new restaurant will be the same size. Some of the employees who worked at the Mineola …

  Fire destroyed a Mineola restaurant Sunday night. Fire departments from Mineola, Quitman, Alba, Lindale and Hainesville responded to the blaze at Wing Dings, that broke out at about 9:30. The restaurant was closed and there were no injuries. Fire officials say the restaurant is a total loss, and the …

  An arrest has been made and numerous warrants have been issued in connection with a rash of commercial burglaries committed throughout NE Texas in an area that stretched from the Metroplex to Arkansas. 37 year old Jeremy Siders of Atlanta was arrested in Cass County for Engaging in Organized …

  Owners of a Longview bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple have received online death threats and have retained an attorney from Liberty Institute of Plano. Two Kilgore men went to Kern’s Bake Shop in Longview asking for an estimate on a wedding cake, …

  Nearly a dozen people were injured over the weekend in a two vehicle wreck in Harrison County. An SUV turned in front of another vehicle, causing the SUV to overturn. A total of eleven occupants from the SUV, including the driver, were transported to a local hospital. At least …