Mount Pleasant News

The State of Texas focuses less on children already in foster care and more on ensuring that is not the outcome for more kids. Two new laws go into effect in September. House Bill 730 requires probable cause for a child’s removal from their home. Anonymous tips are also getting …

A group of booksellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries over sexual content. They expect the law to take …

A town hall meeting is on Thursday night at 7:00 at the Lamar County Fairgrounds. It’s an opportunity for voters in Texas House District 1, which includes Lamar, Bowie, Red River, Cass, and Morris counties, to meet incumbent Representative Gary Van Deaver and his challenger Dale Huls. They will give …

William Chad Busby  Hopkins County Deputies stopped on Hwy 11 in Pickton to assist a couple who reportedly had car trouble. A check found their pickup had a registration assigned to another vehicle, and their trailer had no license tag or VIN. A subsequent search turned up a baggie of …

Shortly after 3:00 Tuesday afternoon, Greenville Police responded to a call of a possible dead body in the 2200 block of East Joe Ramsey Boulevard. Officers located the body of a man in the wooded area on the north side of the road. They sent the body to the Dallas …

Investigators with the Titus County Sheriff’s Office seek the public’s assistance locating 30-year-old Zachary Taylor Holt. Zachary Taylor Holt does not have any family connections to Titus County but rather hales from the DFW Metro area and is known to have operated a construction company across North and East Texas …

Lottery players will have a shot at an estimated $820 million Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, less than a week after someone hit a Powerball prize that topped $1 billion. The massive Mega Millions jackpot is the eighty-largest U.S. lottery prize and follows a $1.08 billion prize won by a …

Barry Keim Hurricane season officially runs June 1-Nov. 30, but that may change if Louisiana State Climatologist and LSU professor Barry Keim has anything to say about it. Keim and a group of researchers are finding hurricane season in practice is becoming longer, with the season beginning earlier and ending …

Jacobo U. Mentado Espinoza On Monday morning at 10:30, Paris officers observed a vehicle weaving from lane to lane in the 2500 block of N. Main. The driver was Jacobo U. Mentado Espinoza. The contact officer smelled alcoholic, and when questioned, the subject refused to answer, and there was an …

Governor Greg Abbott Monday defended Texas’ right to secure the border through the recent deployment of floating marine barriers in the Rio Grande River. In a letter to President Biden, the Governor counters threats by the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state over the barriers by pointing out …