Sulphur Springs News

The Paris Police Department needs help identifying this suspect, who was involved in a theft from Ulta Beauty on Thursday, October 5. If anyone has any identifying information for this suspect, please call Sergeant Foreman at 903-737-4163.

  A bill that would create a school voucher program to let parents use state funds to pay for private schools  was approved in the Texas Senate on Thursday. It now heads to  lawmakers in the Texas House, many of whom have opposed vouchers for years. Gov. Greg Abbott has …

The Texas Senate approved a Bill to create a school voucher program to let parents use state funds to pay for private schools on Thursday. It now heads to lawmakers in the Texas House, many of whom have opposed vouchers for years. Gov. Greg Abbott has proposed it as one …

Titus County Deputies arrested 26-year-old Jermaine Tyrelle Hooks on a warrant for Capital Murder. They released no other information, and he’s in the Titus County Jail without bond.

Hopkins County Law Enforcement Center  Hopkins County Deputies arrested Marvin Edd Lavassar on Thursday for three felony warrants. He’s facing Revocation of his bonds on charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Drug-Free Zone and two counts of abandoning or endangering a child with the intent to return. …

The Delta County Cotton Harvest Festival starts Saturday, October 14, in downtown Cooper from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm. There will be vendors, games for the kids, food, and pedal pull tractors. Then, from 7:00 pm until 10:30, Curtis Grimes and Kyle Park provide musical entertainment with tickets at $10 …

Main Street Theatre in Sulphur Springs will present “Bullets on Broadway,” an audience-participation murder mystery, for four nights this month. The presentation by the Community Players will be at 7:00 pm Friday and Saturday, October 13, 14, 20, and 21. Visit the CommunityPlayersInc.com for ticket information.

Upshur County District Court convicted 43-year-old Carlton Grant of Capital murder. The court sentenced him to Life in Prison without the possibility of parole. Grant and his accomplice kidnapped and strangled 24-year-old Rachel Rhoads from a mobile home park. They then dumped her body on FM 726 near Hwy 154 …

They found a former Tyler Junior College football player shot to death Thursday morning in Natchitoches, La. Ronald Caldwell, Jr., 21 years old, had transferred to Northwestern State University, where he was a junior safety on the football team. They canceled Northwestern’s football game Saturday against Nicholls State because of …

Thursday, the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office announced an internal investigation led to the arrest of a former employee. They arrested Kaitlyn Rhodes for bringing prohibited items into a correctional facility and having an inappropriate relationship with a person in custody. Both charges are felonies. Her bond is $50,000.