Sulphur Springs News

Upshur County’s court sentenced a 74-year-old Upshur County man for sexually abusing two minors. Winston David Tackett of Diana pleaded guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault of two different underage girls and was sentenced to 50 years in prison by Judge Dean Fowler. He will not become eligible to apply for …

Statement from 8th Judicial District Attorney Will Ramsay In 2019, a CPS, or their equivalent, worker in New Jersey was investigating an entirely separate matter and knocked on the door of our victim. During the interview, our victim told the investigator of the incident when visiting her dad in Sulphur …

COMMERCE, TX—A collective featuring two Texas A&M University-Commerce faculty members are receiving a monetary award to establish a digital rhetorical privacy lab on the university campus. Dr. Charles Woods and Dr. Gavin Johnson, assistant professors in the Department of Literature and Languages at A&M-Commerce, are advisory board members of the …

Jacky Daniel McCool | Timothy Jermaine Sims Last Thursday morning at 7:48, officers worked a search warrant in the 200-block of NW 13th and made two felony arrests. They booked Jacky Daniel McCool, 28, of Paris, on an outstanding Possession of a Controlled Substance Warrant. They booked Timothy Jermaine Sims, …

The Texas Department of State Health Services has issued fish consumption advisories for lakes in East Texas and beyond. Mercury causes heavy metal poisoning, while ciguatoxin causes vomiting, diarrhea, and numbness. Dioxins are carcinogens, dieldrin can cause Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer, and PCBs can cause skin conditions and cancer. Lakes …

Pittsburg ISD’s school board has called for a bond election for over 88 million dollars. If approved by voters, they would build a new high school campus. The junior high campus would also get a new cafeteria. The projected tax increase would be $27.68 for an average home value of …

A Florida woman had a lot to celebrate this week after scoring the $2 million top prize from scratch off, the day after her daughter’s final cancer treatment. On Friday, Geraldine Gimblet, of Lakeland, Florida, claimed her $2 million at the Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. She used all her savings …

The Campbell Soup Company and the Campbell Soup Foundation announced they had awarded Community Impact Grants to charitable organizations nationwide, including two in the Paris Area. City Square and United Way of Lamar County each received $20,000. They chose the organizations because they focus on increasing healthy food access, encouraging …

Less than a year before the buzz will be the total solar eclipse that will cross Texas. Sulphur Springs has been planning the event for several months. The Facebook post above is about why Sulphur Springs expects an increase in population on Apr 8 next year.  

Texas A&M-Commerce will officially introduce Jim Curry as the next Director of Athletics with a Meet and Greet on Tuesday, April 11, at 4:00 pm in the Music Building Lobby on the campus of A&M-Commerce. The event is open to all.