News

December, 2021

• 7 December

  Bond Set For Sulphur Springs Robbery Suspects

  Charles Orin Lee Nash Cass Sullivan Bond is $100,000 each for the two men arrested for allegedly robbing Suphur Springs’ Love Truck Stop. Officials arrested 18-year-old Charles Orin Lee Nash of Sulphur Springs and 22-year-old Cass Hunter Sullivan of Royse City after a tip led detectives to Commerce. They charged …
• 7 December

  One Dead, One Jailed In Hunt County Shooting

  Martin Pardon-Martinez Hunt County Detention Center Hunt County Deputies responded to a disturbance report at about 2:30 Sunday morning on a Private Road in Quinlan and found a man in the road suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. They did not identify the man shot, and he died at a …
• 7 December

  Gladewater Sexual Predator Sentenced In Upshur County

  Joseph Paul Price Upshur County Jail In Gilmer Monday, 48-year-old Joseph Paul Price of Gladewater pleaded guilty in Upshur County District Court to eight counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child. As part of his plea agreement, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison and waived his right …
• 7 December

  Man Accused Of Killing Mesquite Officer Identified

  The Mesquite PD has identified the suspect who allegedly fatally shot veteran officer Richard Houston during a disturbance outside a grocery store Friday afternoon. The suspect, 37-year-old Jaime Jaramillo of Balch Springs, will be charged with the Capital Murder of a Peace Officer. The officer shot Houston during the shootout, …
• 7 December

  13-year-old Accidentally Shot By 10-year-old

  In Nacogdoches, a 10-year-old shot a 13-year-old in the cheek while they were playing with a gun over the weekend. The bullet exited the teen’s head beneath the ear. The two had been shooting the gun under family supervision earlier in the day. The CPS has joined the investigation.
• 6 December

  Lamar County Escapee Remains At Large
• 6 December

  PTK Inductions At PJC-Sulphur Springs Campus

  PJC recently inducted these students attending the Sulphur Springs Center into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for two-year colleges. Those receiving membership were (left to right): PTK-Sulphur Springs PTK Vice President Nathan Windham, Benjamin Rocha, Robert Steveos, Madyson McMurtry, Rebekah Stanley, Carolina Berg, Michelle Tijerin, Fernando Chimal, Jazmin Florez, …
• 6 December

  Paris Police Report For Monday (Dec 6)

  Thomas Dewayne Johnson Paris Police stopped a vehicle in the 100-block of NW 19th St at 8:24 Saturday night. The driver, Thomas Dewayne Johnson, II, 19, of Paris, had an outstanding felony Lamar County warrant charging him with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Johnson was arrested and later transferred …
• 6 December

  Cornyn Wants To Get Tough Against China

  Texas Senator John Cornyn says it’s time to take a stricter stance vs. China. Cornyn was recently part of a congressional delegation to the Philippines, India, and Taiwan. He says he notices they speak more plainly about the threat from China than American politicians do. As a result, Cornyn says …
• 6 December

  Plumber Finds $600,000 In Osteen’s Church

  Authorities are investigating whether cash and checks discovered during repair work at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch are the $600,000 stolen from a church safe more than seven years ago. The revived investigation comes after a plumber called a Houston radio station’s morning show during a segment about the most …