Mount Pleasant News

The DPS has identified three of the four people killed in a crash between a passenger car and an 18-wheeler on US Highway 271 N Friday morning. The deceased was 48-year-old Mary K Cooper of Hugo, 61-year-old Janet K Carter of Durant, 18-year-old Koolasha U. Green of Hugo, and a …

Mineola ISD has named Aaron Slider as its new Head Football Coach. He had been Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator for outgoing coach Luke Blackwell, who will remain with the district as the Athletic Director.

A Henderson County Judge found Christopher Hood guilty Monday of murdering his girlfriend, Brooke Spurgeon, 22 years old. He had waived his right to a jury trial and received 50 years in prison. He received an additional ten years for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.

(Mugshots not available) Titus County arrested 41-year-old Eric T. Perez of Mt. Pleasant on two counts of Theft and three Franklin County warrants for Forgery. No bond information was available. Deputies arrested 34-year-old Robert J. Nixon of Pittsburg for Unauthorized use of a Vehicle, two counts of Evading Arrest, Resisting …

Update: They canceled the Amber Alert issued Monday for 15-year-old Erika Anderson, AKA Erica McCarever, after they found her alive and well. She had last been seen in Brookston Sunday morning. She was allegedly with 22-year-old Jonathan Ramirez. No other information was immediately available.   They issued an AMBER Alert out …

Donna Hansbrough Three shoplifters assaulted a woman as she tried to stop them from leaving a Georgia Lowe’s, and her company fired her. According to Rincon Police, on June 25, Takyah Berry, Joseph Berry, and Jarmar Lawton allegedly went into a Lowe’s store and loaded multiple items into shopping carts. …

  Friday night at 10:00, an officer stopped a vehicle in the 10-block of NW 10th for Defective Headlight. The officer arrested the driver, Kenneth Ree Applegate, after smelling marijuana, which Applegate admitted to having in the vehicle. A subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the location of Methamphetamine. …

TxDOT Paris District  Jul 16 – Jul 22   Sherman Area Fannin, Grayson Counties Contacts: Sherman Area Office (903) 892-6529; Grayson Co. Maintenance (903) 893-8831; Fannin Co. Maintenance (903) 583-7566. US 75, Grayson County: from FM 1417 to SH 91 (Texoma Parkway), watch for shoulder closures and lane shifts on …

The Teamsters Union and UPS are approaching their August contract negotiation deadline. If they fail on an agreement, your packages could soon take some time to be delivered. It will be the most significant strike regarding the number of employees involved in half a century and the largest ever involving …

The U.S. Justice Department demands that Texas Governor Greg Abbott remove razor wire and floating barriers along the Rio Grande River. And they are threatening to get a court order, if they have to, to make him remove them. The Governor said that the U.S. Constitution protects Texas and that …