Mount Pleasant Police Department is in the holiday spirit. Officers are looking for great drivers demonstrating good driving skills. Area Wide Movers is helping. If you are a safe driver and officer’s witnesses you are obeying traffic laws; you could get a coupon for a free turkey. The ...

  (Picture not of actual scene) Last Saturday night around 11:00, a two-vehicle accident occurred on US 271 about eight miles south of Gilmer. A Mitsubishi was towing a homemade trailer driven by Jesse Johnson, 33, of Gilmer, attempted to back out of a private drive. A Harley Davidson motorcycle ...

    Hughes Springs Fire Department worked a fire Sunday morning around 1:30. It was in the 600 block of Tower Street in Hughes Springs. The children, ages 10 and six, managed to escape but the fire killed the parents, Al Rushing, 40 and his wife Shanice, 29. The older ...

    Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County firefighters worked three structure fires starting Saturday morning on Main Street near Cumby. County Fire Chief Andy Endsley reminds county residents to have a professional inspect heating units this time of year. Endsley also reminds those who are deep-frying turkeys, electric Christmas decorations ...

    A fire at a Deport home utterly destroyed the house over the weekend. Firefighters from Deport, Pattonville, Blossom and Bogota responded to the home on Monroe Street around 3:30 Saturday afternoon. They battled the blaze nearly three hours. The homeowner was able to make it out unharmed, but ...

    Titus County Sheriff Office’s Corporal Cervantes initiated a traffic stop and noticed the occupants extremely nervous. He arrested Larry Wooten for possession of drug paraphernalia and the passenger, Troy Traylor, for possession of suspected cocaine and outstanding warrants. Officials transported Trailer to Titus County Jail.

    On Thursday afternoon, Titus County Sheriff’s deputies helped in an Upshur County’s investigation of a shooting. They were looking for a suspect Steven Seth Rosewell, 30, of Cookville. Reportedly sometime during the previous night or early morning hours, Rosewell had shot a female companion causing life-threatening injuries. Afterward, ...

  Kansas City Southern Railroad’s Holiday Express is traveling through Northeast Texas in the next few days. It departed Wylie earlier and travels through Winnsboro Sunday (Nov 27) behind the Depot around 4:00 pm. The 16th annual Holiday Express is distributing a total of $153,290 in gift cards to The ...

  Dallas’ mayor, Michael S. Rawlings, testified this month to a state oversight board that his city appeared to be “walking into the fan blades” of municipal bankruptcy. Rawlings added that it is ironic that Dallas has the fastest economic growth of the nation’s 13 largest cities. Its streets hum ...

  Otis Tyrone McCain                                                                                Detective Benjamin Marconi San Antonio Police Chief ...