News

  Mt. Vernon Independent School District Dr. Jason McCullough, Superintendent May 24, 2019 Contact: Jason McCullough, Superintendent Mount Vernon ISD hires Art Briles as head football coach MOUNT VERNON, TX—Art Briles will return to the Texas sidelines as Mount Vernon High School’s head football coach this fall. The Mount Vernon ...

  NOTICE OF WORK SESSION(S)   DATE:           Tuesday, May 28, 2019 TIME:            11:00 A.M. PLACE:         Meeting Room Located On The Third Floor Of The Hopkins County Courthouse Located At 118 Church St., Sulphur Springs, TX.   ORDER OF BUSINESS   The Court To Meet With Tom Glosup To Discuss Maintenance ...

  Press Release  by Lt. Adam J. Phillips, PIO, Greenville Police Department -GREENVILLE: On May 18, 2019, a report was made with the Greenville Police Department about a man who allegedly exposed himself to a mother and a small child at the Lowe’s in Greenville, Texas. An investigation was initiated ...

    I. CALL TO ORDER: Invocation II. FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS A. The announcement by the President whether a quorum is present, that the meeting had been duly called and that the notice of the meeting had been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government ...

Rena Sue Goss Paris Police arrested Rena Sue Goss, 55, at her residence Thursday morning at 11:36 on a felony warrant charging her with possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, of less than one gram. Goss was later placed in the Lamar County Jail. Nicholas Gage Clark Paris Police conducted ...

  The YMCA will once again have a summer camp in Sulphur Springs. If you have any questions, please call 469-276-8421 for more information.

FINALS PROJECTS Students in the spring welding class at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center were busy working on their finals project as the semester ended. The welding workforce program continues through the summer semester. For more information about this program and registration for summer and fall semesters, call 903-885-1232 or go by the campus ...

At 1:56 this Friday morning, Troopers responded to a vehicle vs. pedestrian fatal crash on IH-20, 0.5-mile east of Kilgore in Gregg County. Preliminary crash investigation shows that the driver of a 2003 Ford Ranger was traveling westbound on IH-20 when the vehicle experienced mechanical problems which caused the driver ...

  Titus County Sheriff  Tim Ingram assigned an inmate work detail to pick up trash on CR 4950 between Hwy 11 and the railroad bridge. The crew picked up 4 bags of trash and other debris. A Morris County resident was identified as the perpetrator and a case has been ...

Deputies arrested 37-year-old Anthony D. Guerra, of Pittsburg, in Titus County for Manufacture/Delivery of a Controlled Substance, two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bond was set at $23,000. Titus County Deputies arrested 23-year-old Alexander Thomas, of Fort Worth, on several outstanding felony warrants. ...

Bowie County A Bowie County jury of eight women and four men convicted a Northeast Texas man on two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a 12-year-old girl. The jury sentenced 40-year-old Charles Edward Garton, of New Boston, to 80 years in prison on each count. The sentences will run ...

Authorities are investigating after a female homeowner in Forney shot and killed an intruder Thursday. The woman told Kaufman County Deputies that she was awakened by a loud pounding at her door, but didn’t recognize the man. A short time later, she heard someone kick in the back door. She ...

Bond has been set at $75,000 for an Arkansas man arrested by Cumby Police following a traffic stop at the 110-mile marker on I-30 in Hopkins County. Reportedly, 36-year-year-old Andrew Zachery Berry, of Russellville, showed extreme nervousness and a search was initiated, where seven pounds of methamphetamine was found hidden ...

Mugshot not available Sulphur Springs Police responded to reports of multiple crashes and followed a trail of broken vehicle parts from Woodlawn to Hillcrest Drive. They found a man asleep in a vehicle that had heavy front end damage. The 27-year-old man was transported to jail for a blood alcohol ...

A former state prison correctional officer in Rusk County has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe from an inmate. Richard Sykes, who worked at the East Texas Treatment Facility in Henderson smuggled ten cans of Grizzly Wintergreen snuff pouches to the facility in exchange for $100 and a promise of ...

A small plane crashed into a home Thursday in Collin County. McKinney firefighters have confirmed that two people on the plane were taken to a nearby hospital in undisclosed condition. No one in the house or on the ground was hurt.

Authorities are investigating after a female homeowner in  Forney shot and killed an intruder Thursday. The woman told Kaufman County Deputies that she was awakened by a loud pounding at her door, but didn’t recognize the man. A short time later, she heard someone kick in the back door. She ...

The Greenville Herald Banner is reporting that a former Miss Black Texas is suing the City of Commerce and former Police Chief Kerry Crews in federal court. Carmen Ponder, who was a student at Texas A&M-Commerce, is alleging in her lawsuit that her arrest in 2017 during an incident in ...

Portions of the Northeast Texas Trail have received a grant of nearly $1.2 million from Texas Parks and Wildlife. The money will go to a section of the trail in Wolfe City and from Clarksville to the Bowie County line.

The trial of Deport Mayor John Mark Francis has been postponed. Francis was indicted for theft of more than $2500 but less than $30,000 two years ago. Francis maintains he has done nothing wrong. The trial was delayed because at least one witness was unavailable for the trial and district ...