Mount Pleasant News

They arrested the former chief of the now-defunct Coffee City Police Department on several charges on Wednesday. They charged 51-year-old John Jay Portillo of Houston with six counts of tampering with government records. Each account had a $150,000 bond totaling to $900,000. Records show Portillo bonded out of the Henderson …

Tyler Scott Headley Officers responded to the 600 block of Martin Luther King Dr. Tuesday at 5:29 pm about a Violation of Protective Order complaint. They witnessed Tyler Scott Headley, 29, on the property sitting next to an individual with a protective order. Officers asked Headley to step out of …

Family farmers in East Texas are awarded $17,500 in research and innovation grants from the Transfarmation Project to help support their farms’ transition from animal agriculture to specialty crops.  The Halley family has gone from raising chickens for slaughter to growing hemp and rescuing homeless animals. As contract farmers, the Halleys raised six batches …

PLANO, Texas – The Eastern District of Texas charged three North Texas individuals with sex trafficking crimes, according to U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs. William McKinnley Garland, 40, of Plano; Jalen Alexander Bobo, 24, of Dallas; and Robberta Marie Khan, 27, of Euless, have been charged by an indictment returned …

  SHERMAN, Texas – U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs of the Eastern District of Texas announced that Homestar North America, LLC has agreed to pay $798,334 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay customs duties owed for furniture imports from China. Customs laws …

The Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation has identified 48-year-old Earnest Threadgill of Eagletown as the man who beat his father to death during a domestic assault last week. He’s been charged with first-degree murder and is in the McCurtain County Jail.

  Deputies arrested Tammie Joyce Lawings, 46, of Naples, in Titus County, for Possession of a Controlled Substance, a Morris County warrant for Burglary of a Vehicle, and a misdemeanor. Her bonds total $16,000. Titus County arrested Della Irene Moore, 48, of Naples, Tuesday for Possession of a Controlled Substance …

Monday morning at 11:14, officers responded to a residence in the 1400 block of NE 12 about a Burglary. The victim advised that someone entered and several items were missing, with some in the yard in preparation for theft. A tiller and a small engine were gone from the residence. …

The Texas Tribune is reporting The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order that would have allowed a Dallas woman to get an abortion. The ruling came down hours after Kate Cox’s lawyers announced she was leaving the state to terminate her non-viable pregnancy. Her unborn child suffers …