Mount Pleasant News

  Clara Carpenter will join more than 150 Texas teens on the Youth Tour on June 16-23, 2024. Lamar Electric Cooperative is excited to announce that Clara from Detroit High School will represent the cooperative in June on this unforgettable trip to Washington, D.C. They selected Carpenter from among a …

Officials asked Marshall drivers to avoid the intersection of Highways 59 and 80 due to an unusual road hazard. Marshall Police said a “chicken gut truck” left a “trail of blood and gore” on the roadway. Police asked people to avoid the bloody lane as a hazmat crew headed to …

A young girl was buried in sand and died Tuesday when a deep hole she dug with a little boy collapsed on them both at a South Florida beach. Emergency crews responding around 3:00 pm to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea found the boy, who is about eight, buried up his chest in the …

This last Saturday, Kale Robinson, 17, passed away during a Texas High School Bass Association tournament weigh-in. Cooper Standridge and Gage Ivey have fished with Kale on the fishing team for the last three years. They are working to arrange one more boat takeoff in honor of Kale and to …

Chester "Chet" Ray Stuart Chester “Chet” Ray Stuart, 36, of Bowie County, allegedly began showing his friend’s daughter girl pornography when she was 8, according to a probable cause affidavit. The girl is now in her teens. An adult relative witnessed “questionable behavior” by Stuart. He would allegedly go into …

  The search for a missing 11-year-old Polk County girl is over after divers found her body Tuesday in the Trinity River underneath the U.S. 59 bridge. Friends reported Audrii Cunningham missing last Thursday after she didn’t return home from school in Livingston. Authorities will charge 42-year-old Don Steven McDougal …

  They expect a Dallas County judge to rule soon on whether Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will have to provide a paternity test to see if he’s the father of 27-year-old Alexandra Davis. Daivs sued him in 2022. The woman claims she conceived when the Cowboys owner had a …

  East Texas is expecting thousands of people traveling into the area to experience the Great American Total Solar Eclipse on April 8. And those numbers are expected to boost the local economy. Prominent economist Dr. Ray Perryman says the impact could be about $200 million, and most of the …

  A Gilmer man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her sister in November pleaded not guilty to capital murder in Upshur County District Court Tuesday afternoon. Upshur County has charged 41-year-old Alvin Charles McKnight, Jr., in the shooting deaths of 37-year-old Dermetrica Waters and 35-year-old Mandy Ray. He remains …