Mount Pleasant News

It’s the Moon’s turn to shine next week, coming on the heels of the solar eclipse last August. Serendipity strikes on Wednesday (Jan 31) as a total lunar eclipse will happen at the same time as a supermoon and a Blue Moon. This lunar trifecta is the first of its …

The Clorox Total 360 system is a hit at Chisum ISD. The district is using the machine to combat the flu. It takes three hours to sanitize a building and about 30 minutes for eleven buses. The school even loaned it to Honey Grove ISD to help fight their outbreak …

    Rusk County Deputies are investigating after vandals destroyed the wiring for an East Texas phone service. Investigators say unknown people entered the Eastex Telephone Cooperative Exchange Tuesday and destroyed the wiring for all Pine Hill area service, including cell service. The 911 service is also down for this …

    One of the biggest stars in the motion picture industry will be honored this week at an East Texas College. Oscar winner Denzel Washington will be honored at Wiley College in Marshall during the awards ceremony for the nation’s first Historically Black Colleges and Universities Speech and Debate …

    An East Texas man has been sentenced in Upshur County to 47 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder. Xavier Mumphrey, 19, of Kilgore, was described as the lone gunman who shot and killed 29-year-old  Kendrick Lemichael Jackson. A co-defendant, 19-year-old Decorian Robbins, of Avinger, was previously …

  Chameleon Bandit The FBI is looking for a bank robbery suspect who has robbed banks in East Texas and several other states. Investigators have nicknamed the suspect “The Chameleon Beard Bandit” because he changes the color of his beard. His latest robbery was in Longview. He is suspected of …

    Jamiriquan Enalls Pittsburg PD The suspect in a December robbery and shooting incident in Pittsburg is now in custody. Jamiriquan Enalls, 19, was arrested by Pittsburg Police on warrants for aggravated robbery and burglary. One person was reportedly shot during the December incident.

  Kimberly-Clark says it is cutting 5,000 jobs on sluggish sales partly due to fewer babies. Millennials are not having as many babies. As a result, the company is slashing its costs by $1.5 billion over the next four years. That includes eliminating 5,000 to 5,500 jobs. That represents 12 …

  Now you have him, now you don’t. Officials caught James Hufford, a Fannin County 17-year-old, wanted for driving a stolen car over the weekend. He crashed the car and got away on foot. Officers arrested two girls in the vehicle and booked them into the Bryan County Jail. Saturday …

Daniel Flanagan Monday afternoon Paris Police arrested Daniel Flanagan, 26, on an outstanding parole violation warrant. A victim reported a credit card abuse in the 100-block of NE 11th Monday morning. A possible known suspect had used the card without authorization. Just before noon, officers responded to the 1000-block of …