News

September, 2022

• 14 September

  Lamar County Commissioners Grant Abatements

  Lamar County Courthouse Lamar County Commissioners have approved over $5 million in tax abatements for capital improvements to housing. The upgrades will mean at least 50 new housing units. The discounts will take effect when the city of Paris grants the new certificates of occupancy.
• 14 September

  North Lamar ISD Sets Tax Rate

  The North Lamar ISD Board of Trustees has set a new property tax rate of 1.10 cents per hundred valuations. That’s about four cents less than the current rate. About 85 cents will go for maintenance and operations, and about 25 cents to bond indebtedness. Most people, however, will still …
• 14 September

  Trial Underway For Former Wolfe City Police Officer

  Former Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas Jury selection is underway before Hunt County District Judge Keli Aiken for a former Wolfe City Police Officer accused of murdering a city resident. The state accuses 24-year-old Shaun Lucas of Lone Oak of shooting 31-year-old Jonathan Price multiple times in front of …
• 14 September

  Murder Trial Starts In Hopkins County

  Robert Clevon Jeffery Delta County selected a jury, but the trial is now underway in Hopkins County District Court for a Cooper man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding another. The state charges 47-year-old Robert Clevon Jeffery with shooting 35-year-old Damien Damon Wiley of Cooper and causing bodily …
• 14 September

  Mt Vernon Man Jailed In Hopkins County

  John Adam McGinn Hopkins County deputies stopped a vehicle on I-30 for failure to drive in a single lane. The driver, 40-year-old John Adam McGinn of Mt. Vernon was extremely nervous and refused permission to search the vehicle. A K-9 officer, however alerted on the pickup. A subsequent search turned …
• 14 September

  Titus County Jail Bookings

  Thomas Dwayne MItchell Titus County Deputies arrested 60-year-old Thomas Dwayne Mitchell of Mt. Pleasant on a warrant for Revocation of Probation for Possession of more than four but less than 200 grams of a Controlled Substance. He’s in the Titus County Jail. Misael Hernandez Deputies arrested 38-year-old Misael Hernandez for …
• 13 September

  Mt Pleasant PD Nets Dozens Of Stolen Firearms

  Mt Pleasant PD Facebook Page Mt Pleasant Police Department’s Narcotics Officer conducted a traffic stop on two men on Interstate 30 and located 26 stolen firearms, a large sum of possible stolen cash, and narcotics. The two men also were convicted felons. The officer charged them with multiple counts of …
• 13 September

  PJC-Sulphur Springs Classes Underway

  Charle Fox, secretary at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center campus, helps new student Destiny Dee Carver of Sulphur Springs prepare to begin her first semester of college.
• 13 September

  Four Scheme Against Red River Army Depot

  TEXARKANA, Texas: Four individuals, including two Red River Army Depot (RRAD) officials, have been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Jeffrey Harrison, 44, of Texarkana, a former RRAD vendor, pleaded guilty on May 18, 2021, to bribing Jimmy Scarbrough, a former …
• 13 September

  Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Stands Up To EPA

  Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar (AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar recently sent a letter to federal agency directors requesting an additional review of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to designate the Permian Basin as out of compliance with National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). In his letter, Hegar asked the director …