Mount Pleasant News

Steve Westbrook, former Executive Director of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas, has resigned. According to Larry Smith, President of the Association, they are accusing Westbrook of mismanaging organization funds. The board of directors accepted Westbrook’s resignation instead of expulsion. He will forfeit his license as a peace officer and will …

A Travis County State District Judge has ordered the Department of Public Safety to release law enforcement records related to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde. It comes more than a year after many news organizations sued for access. The files could shed light on the disastrous police response to …

Oklahoma executed 59-year-old Philip Hancock Thursday morning in McAlister. Oklahoma had condemned Hancock for killing two men in Oklahoma City in 2001. Hancock maintained that he acted in self-defense. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency, but Governor Kevin Stitt refused to commute his sentence.

A search for a missing person led McCurtain County Deputies to a home east of Broken Bow. Officers obtained and executed a search warrant and found what they described as “charred human remains.” Officers arrested the property owner, Marvin Bray, on several pending investigation charges.

  TYLER, Texas – U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs announced that five defendants, including laboratory executives and hospital executives, were found guilty of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Susan L. Hertzberg, 65, of New York, New York; Matthew John Theiler, 57, of Mars, Pennsylvania; David Weldon Kraus, 65, of …

Michael Allen Aguilar | Nadrionna Lashasell Chester Officers worked two unrelated incidents of shoplifting on Wednesday. It was theft over $100.00 but less than $750.00 at a retail store in the 3800 block of Lamar Avenue. In both instances, the suspects intentionally failed to scan items before leaving the store. …

They packed an auditorium at Greenville High School Wednesday night as those who knew and loved Jaylen Moore gathered one week after police say the 14-year-old was accidentally shot and killed by another teen playing with a gun. Greenville Police said the shooting happened near Warren Park last Wednesday around …

  A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue two years ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. 20-year-old Franklin Sechriest had previously pleaded guilty to arson and a hate crime causing damage to religious property on Halloween 2021. He also was ordered to pay $470,000 …

The three-day Texas BBQ Blowout begins on Thursday, November 30, and runs through Saturday, December 2. Country superstar Neal McCoy will present a live concert on Thursday night. Friday, December 1, is the Welcome to Paris party. Saturday, it’s the Texas BBQ Blowout cook-off! All events at the Love Civic …

Camp County Deputies seized a near skeletal horse that the owner abandoned on CR 4244. Deputies transported the horse to Piney Woods Animal Clinic for a medical evaluation and discovered the animal, which should have weighed about 1000 pounds, only weighed 630. They transported the horse to Safe Haven Equine …