Mount Pleasant News

TxDOT Atlanta District For Dec. 17-23, 2017 Bowie County US 259 – At Red River north of De Kalb, constructing a new bridge. US 259 – From US 82 to FM 44, adding shoulders. FM 1297 – From FM 2878 to FM 559, widening the highway. Harrison County I-20 Westbound …

Fall 2017 commencement for A&M-Texarkana is Dec. 15 TEXARKANA, Texas – Texas A&M University-Texarkana will celebrate its fall 2017 commencement ceremony Friday, Dec. 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Perot Theatre in historic downtown Texarkana, Texas. Approximately 203 students from December 2017 will receive master’s and baccalaureate degrees, with about …

  Johnny Smallwood Thursday evening, just after 6:00, Paris Police conducted a traffic stop in the 200 block of W Kaufman and arrested Johnny Smallwood, 54, for intoxication. Due to previous convictions for driving while intoxicated, officer enhanced Smallwood’s charge to a felony offense. A victim complaint to the Police …

    mugshot not available An East Texas man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening staff at an inpatient drug rehabilitation center while on probation for Burglary of a Habitation. That offense stemmed from Matthew Todd entering his neighbor’s home while she was …

    Dr. Herman Felton, Jr Wiley College in Marshall has named Herman Felton Jr. to be the college’s next president. He will succeed President Haywood Strickland who is retiring in June. Felton has been president of Wilberforce University in Ohio since 2016. He has also held numerous other positions …

    mugshot not available An East Texas school employee was arrested Thursday after an allegation of an improper relationship with a Mineola high school student. Todd Karch, of Lindale, was arrested at the Wood County Sheriff’s Office and charged with soliciting a minor online. Karch has resigned as the …

  Michael Bernard Bailey Hunt County Jail Michael Bernard Bailey of Commerce has pleaded guilty to evading arrest with a vehicle and endangering a child. A grand jury indicted him for fleeing from a Commerce Police Officer and having a child under the age of 15 unrestrained in the vehicle. …

    Greenville Firefighters were dispatched to a structure fire and found a wood frame house in the 1800 block of Jones Street completely engulfed in flames. Crews were made aware that there was likely someone still inside the residence, but at that time the roof collapsed and firefighters had …

    One person was killed and three firefighters suffered minor injuries early Thursday morning in a head-on collision on Highway 34 near FM 2101 in Hunt County. Three Cash firefighters were on a truck that was traveling north when a car heading south swerved into the northbound lane, hit …

Andy Angelo Gonzalez Mount Pleasant Police charged Andy Angelo Gonzalez, 21, of Pittsburg, in connection with the Tiger Mart robbery. Friday morning at 3:25 a man walked into a gas station at 2511 W. Ferguson Rd., pointed a pistol at a store employee and demanded cash. After robbing the store, …