Mount Pleasant News

  The next cold front to arrive in East Texas is likely to arrive with a strong push of Arctic air. The front will arrive during the day Sunday and push north to south through East Texas by Sunday night, making freezing rain a possibility in some areas. During New …

  Tony Lee Wilkinson Hopkins County Jail A traffic stop by Hopkins County Deputies on the Loop in Sulphur Springs resulted in the arrest of a Commerce Man on felony drug charges. The nervousness shown by 48-year-old Tony Lee Wilkinson led to a search and they found a glass pipe …

  Kelly Clarke (Facebook) A former pastor of New Covenant Church in Tyler passed away Christmas Day after saving the life of someone else. Kelly Clarke was a missionary in Costa Rica for the past year with his family. He went swimming with his family on Christmas Day when his …

  More information has been released about the circumstances in the fatal shooting in Rusk County Christmas Eve. Marvin Durrell Sanders, 37, of Kilgore, allegedly shot his cousin in the back of the head while the family was watching a Dallas Cowboys football game. The victim, Rev. Waylon D. Hunt, …

    Michael Kirkwood ( Gladewater Fire Department) Funeral services for Gladewater Fire Chief Michael Kirkwood are set for Wednesday (Dec 27) at 2:00 pm at First Baptist Church in Mt Pleasant. Kirkwood also served as a Mt Pleasant Police Officer and Titus County Deputy and died Christmas Eve of …

    A Grayson County Judge has sentenced a man convicted of poaching a big white-tailed buck to spend every weekend of hunting season in jail for the next five years. In addition to five years of probation, and over $18,000 in civil restitution penalty, 34-year-old John Walker Drinnon, of …

     Statement by Reno Police Chief Matt Birch Reno Police received a complaint about a reckless driver and arrested the driver, 26-year-old James Dustin Foster, of Detroit, for driving while license suspended. He became combative and began fighting with officers. With the assistance of State Troopers and Lamar County …

    Michael Kirkwood (Gladewater Fire Department) Funeral services will be held in Mt Pleasant for 42-year-old Gladewater Fire Chief Michael Kirkwood, who passed away Christmas Eve due to health complications. He was a former Titus County Deputy and Mt Pleasant Police Officer. Visitation is 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm Tuesday …

    Ortiz, Gabriella Hunt County Jail The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has turned down the appeal of a Campbell woman sentenced to 42 years in prison in connection with the death of two-year-old Brandon Herrera. Gabriella Ortiz had pleaded guilty in Hunt County to Injury to a Child …

    A Winnsboro teen has pleaded guilty in Upshur County District Court to Aggravated Assault With a Deadly Weapon by Threat. Preston Drake Harris, 18, was sentenced by District Judge Lauren Parish to six years deferred adjudication probation.