Mount Pleasant News

Texas Private-sector Employers Add 42,800 positions in February The Texas economy added 40,500 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs in February, which marked 20 consecutive months of employment growth. Over the year, Texas added 285,200 jobs for an annual employment growth rate of 2.3 percent in February. Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate …

A&M-Texarkana Dedicates Bramlett Field at Spring Lake Park TEXARKANA, Texas – Dozens of friends, family, coworkers and city leaders gathered with the TAMUT Eagles Softball team and university officials on March 21, 2018, to formally dedicate James Bramlett Field and unveil the new scoreboard that displays the name of the …

  Texarkana, AR-TX, March 22, 2018– TexAmericas Center’s Board of Directors approved agreement documents with Lionchase Holdings, INC., a privately-held asset management firm, at its board meeting on Tuesday, February 27. Lionchase Holdings, Inc., has agreed to build a 200,000-square foot cold storage facility on TexAmericas Center (TAC), one of …

  Photos by Tim Spice Friday morning at 7:15 a U-Haul truck lost control, rolled and ended up blocking both Eastbound lanes of I-30 just east of Jefferson and I-30 in Mt Pleasant. There were two in the U-Haul. At 8:20 traffic failed to negotiate the traffic backed up and …

Douglas Cruise Thursday afternoon, just before 5:00, Paris Police arrested Douglas Cruise, 35, in the 3300-block of Lamar after a traffic stop. Officers found a small amount of marijuana and methamphetamine. Thursday after 12:30 officers responded to the 900-block of Pine Bluff in regards to a burglary. An unknown suspect …

    A final order has been issued for closing Winfield ISD. The district will be annexed to the Mt Pleasant ISD. Windfield will continue to operate until the end of this semester and effective July 1 will be operated by the Mt. Pleasant district.

    Another person has been arrested in connection with the December shooting death of seven-year-old Kaden Green in Greenville. Authorities are holding 24-year-old Cameron Rafael Castillo in the Hunt County Detention Center on an unspecified Collin County warrant but more charges are likely. Officials previously charged 26-year-old Brooke Ashleigh Craig …

    A cross-dressing East Texas man has been convicted by a Gregg County jury of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at the Longview Mall. The jury sentenced 44-year-old Lester Levelle Reedy to life in prison. Reedy, who goes by the name Linda Huges, was already a registered sex offender …

    The DPS identified Dexture Domona Carr, 29, of Gilmer as the man killed in a collision in Upshur County. An 18-wheeler driven by a Henderson man was stopped to make a left turn on Hwy 300 southeast of Gilmer when Carr rear-ended the truck. A judge pronounced Carr …

    Titus County arrested 36-year-old Ashlei Caroline Lance for possession of more than one but less than four grams of a controlled substance and harassment of a public servant. No bond information was available.