A vehicle struck and killed a Gladewater pedestrian on State Highway 31 near Kilgore early Sunday morning. Paramedics took Marino Gunter to CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center–Kilgore, where he later died of his injuries. The crash is under investigation.

NETBIO scholarship winners and CEO Cattle producers and buyers attending the Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization (NETBIO) cattle sale at the Sulphur Springs Livestock Auction Friday witnessed the presentation of college scholarships to students majoring in agriculture. NETBIO awards these scholarships each year to young college students from the Northeast …

  DATE: Monday, July 19, 2021 TIME: 5:30 P.M. PLACE: Hopkins County Regional Civic Center Located At 1200 Houston St., Sulphur Springs, TX. ORDER OF BUSINESS The Court To Attend The City Of Sulphur Springs Downtown West Planning Event. Budget Work Session(s). DATE: Monday, July 19, 2021 – Tuesday, July …

COVID cases in Texas are surging, primarily because of the highly contagious Delta variant. In Austin, they’ve returned to Stage 3 COVID Risk-Based Guidelines. The seven-day average for new cases has tripled from 30 to almost 90. In addition, the seven-day moving average for hospital admissions went from seven to …

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan Texas House Democrats have been in Washington all week. Republican leaders are pressuring them to return. House Speaker Dade Phelan has chartered a plane on standby and wants the representatives on board. Phelan also stripped El Paso Democrat Joe Moody, who is in Washington, of …

The Alamo facade by Tom Reel 11/17/98 (98-3846) Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick wants a discussion of the book “Forget the Alamo” to be held at the University of Texas, and he wants historians there to challenge the facts. Don Frasier, who heads the Texas Center at Schreiner University, says …

Leonardo Garcia Reportedly, 35-year-old former Paris Police Officer Leonardo Garcia of Honey Grove has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief. Two other misdemeanor charges were dismissed as part of the plea bargain, and he was sentenced to two years’ probation. He also agreed to surrender his law enforcement license.

The Paris News reports that an investigation by Texas Rangers into a Paris PD officer-involved shooting on June 1 is still underway, and no other information has been released. At this week’s city council meeting, there had been a request that Police Chief Richard Salter provide some information about the …

The City of Sulphur Springs will begin shutting off water Tuesday to customers behind on their water bills. Since 2020, water turn-offs had been suspended because of the COVID pandemic. Those who are still behind in their water bills have until Monday to stop by the City Offices at 125 …

Manuel Pastor-Andrade Hopkins County arrested 22-year-old Alexis Leonarda Alvarez (mugshot not available) and 24-year-old Manuel Pastor-Andrade on first-degree felony drug charges and other crimes. They are accused on three counts of Manufacture or Delivery of Controlled Substances, Money laundering of more than $2500 but less than $30,000, and Delivery of …