Sulphur Springs News

  All students in Sulphur Springs ISD will be released at 12:30 pm on Thursday, December 21, for the Christmas Holiday. The SSISD Transportation Department will deliver all regular route bus students to their homes approximately three hours earlier. Buses will leave Prim Stadium hub around 12:45 pm and begin afternoon …

    mugshot not available An East Texas man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening staff at an inpatient drug rehabilitation center while on probation for Burglary of a Habitation. That offense stemmed from Matthew Todd entering his neighbor’s home while she was …

    Dr. Herman Felton, Jr Wiley College in Marshall has named Herman Felton Jr. to be the college’s next president. He will succeed President Haywood Strickland who is retiring in June. Felton has been president of Wilberforce University in Ohio since 2016. He has also held numerous other positions …

    Raheem Mark Miller Henderson County Jail The 12th Court of Appeals has upheld an East Texas capital murder conviction. Raheem Mark Miller, 22, of Athens, was sentenced to life without parole for killing 23-year-old Cedrick Collins of Malakoff during a robbery in June of 2014.

    mugshot not available An East Texas school employee was arrested Thursday after an allegation of an improper relationship with a Mineola high school student. Todd Karch, of Lindale, was arrested at the Wood County Sheriff’s Office and charged with soliciting a minor online. Karch has resigned as the …

  Michael Bernard Bailey Hunt County Jail Michael Bernard Bailey of Commerce has pleaded guilty to evading arrest with a vehicle and endangering a child. A grand jury indicted him for fleeing from a Commerce Police Officer and having a child under the age of 15 unrestrained in the vehicle. …

    Greenville Firefighters were dispatched to a structure fire and found a wood frame house in the 1800 block of Jones Street completely engulfed in flames. Crews were made aware that there was likely someone still inside the residence, but at that time the roof collapsed and firefighters had …

    One person was killed and three firefighters suffered minor injuries early Thursday morning in a head-on collision on Highway 34 near FM 2101 in Hunt County. Three Cash firefighters were on a truck that was traveling north when a car heading south swerved into the northbound lane, hit …

Andy Angelo Gonzalez Mount Pleasant Police charged Andy Angelo Gonzalez, 21, of Pittsburg, in connection with the Tiger Mart robbery. Friday morning at 3:25 a man walked into a gas station at 2511 W. Ferguson Rd., pointed a pistol at a store employee and demanded cash. After robbing the store, …

Wednesday just before 8:00 pm there was a one-vehicle crash on Wood County Road 3230. It was half a mile south of TX-154. Reportedly Clifton Wattis, 52, of Winnsboro, was traveling south and entered a curve, lost control and struck trees before catching on fire. Judge Tony Gilbreath pronounced Wattis …