Sulphur Springs News

Joshua Okeith Fluellen, Jr. On Thursday evening at 5:59, a Major Accident involved multiple vehicles. It was in the 1200 block of South West Loop 286 and involved a semi-truck trailer and two passenger vehicles. The occupants of one of the passenger vehicles were critically injured and transported to Paris …

SWEPCO reported a large power outage in North Texarkana, affecting thousands of residents along northwest I-30. It started at 9:30 on Thursday morning, involving over 5,500 customers. They expect restoration by 1:00 pm Friday. After getting around animal protection devices, Rocky the squirrel brought the area to a stop. No …

AP Tristan Thursday, a former Waco Heat select softball coach AP Tristan, whom a prosecutor branded a “serial sex offender,” was sentenced to 150 years in prison and fined $20,000. It came after his convictions for sexually abusing teenage girls on his softball team. The judge ordered Tristan, age 59, …

Cody Connell posing for a photo at the Capitol riots with his cousin, Daniel Adams(FBI) The United States Attorney’s Office has asked a federal judge for a sentence of over four years for a Polk County man and his cousin who were involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. …

Texas executed 53-year-old Brent Ray Brewer by lethal injection Thursday night in Huntsville. A jury condemned him for the murder of 66-year-old Robert Laminack of Amarillo in April of 1990. Laminack received a ride from Brewer and his girlfriend to a Salvation Army facility when Brewer fatally stabbed Laminack in …

Nestor Hernandez was found  guilty by a Dallas County jury Thursday afternoon of Capital Murder. Hernandez killed two Dallas Methodist Medical Center employees- social worker Jacqueline Pokuaa and nurse Annette Flowers while visiting his wife at the hospital. Hernandez will automatically be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility …

David RodriguezThey located the missing Sulphur Springs High School student who walked away from his home between 2:30 and 5:30 am on Monday, November 6, in an abandoned house. Unfortunately, 18-year-old David Rodriguez was deceased. Police Chief Jason Ricketson did not release further details and offered prayers for David’s family.

Sulphur Springs High School is honoring Veterans and their families today with a reception from 11:30 to 1:00 pm and a special ceremony from 1:00 until 2:00 pm. Parking is available in the teachers’ parking lot in the front of the High School. The Hopkins County Marine Corps League Detachment …

Hopkins County Law Enforcement Center  Beverly Alaina Bailey was arrested Thursday in Hopkins County. She’s charged on a warrant with Violation of Probation on a charge of Possession of more than one but less than four grams. Hopkins County arrested Joshua Scott Morris on warrants for Revocation of Bonds for …

An East Texas woman has pleaded guilty to stealing money from a church where she was once the Children’s Pastor. A Van Zandt County Grand Jury indicted Donna Corry Drake of Canton for theft of more than $30,000 but less than $150,000 from Lakeside Baptist Church. Drake was sentenced to …