Flynn Questions Legality of Same Sex-Marriage Under Texas Law; Ask What Federal Government Could Do if State Legislature Does Not Change Law
States rights questions remain even though the Civil War was thought to settle most. District 2 Texas State Representative Dan Flynn has requested an Attorney General’s opinion regarding the status of law pertaining to marriage in Texas. Among the questions regarding marriage, Flynn asked if current state law allows the issuance of marriage license without the Texas legislature changing the laws of the state. Specifically, he...
SSISD Education Foundation; Rededicating and Expanding
The Sulphur Springs Independent School District Education Foundation is thinking big this year. Top priorities this year are more fund raising events, and a new way to stimulate education ideas in the classroom. “We don’t want to exclude anything from our new Classroom Grant Program”, says Gena Prickette. The grant program will be looking for unique and innovative ideas that fall outside the usual lines....
Hopkins County EMS Receives American Heart Association Lifeline Silver Award
Hopkins County EMS has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Silver Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks. Brent Smith, Director of EMS at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital said Hopkins County EMS is dedicated to making our EMS agency among the best in the country, and AHA’s Lifeline program is helping us accomplish...
“Updated” Following Every Lead; Attempts to Locate Senior Continues
Thursday morning at 11 a.m. July 16, Hopkins County Chief Investigator Lewis Tatum relied “No” when asked by KSST News if 79-year old Lee Jones had been found. Rumors spread Wednesday that Lee Jones has been found that morning. That rumor continues to be false according Tatum. The search continues. After Jones was reported missing from his County Road 1180 home Saturday afternoon in Hopkins County, lawmen requested the...
Country Music and Comedy Revue Coming Friday July 24, 2015
D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) officer Kelly Wiser is inviting everyone to the annual Country Music and Comedy Revue on Friday July 24, 2015 at 7pm in the Civic Center auditorium. This year’s entertainment lineup will include Monty Tipps (also Emcee) and his Main Street Band, special guest Steven Pride, Dale “The C” Cummings, Tisha George, Brad Cummings and Cousin Cedrick. Hopkins County Sherrif Butch...
Winn Sentenced to 15 Months in TDJC
Thursday afternoon in 8th Judicial District Court, Daniel Winn, a former Criminal Investigator with the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to day-for-day 15 months in the Texas Department of Corrections. Winn was sentenced based on 7 counts of tampering with evidence which are state jail felonies. Appointed Special Prosecutor Gary Young of Lamar County and the court dropped 7 third degree felony counts. Winn’s...
Sexual Assault of a Child Arrest Made Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon around 4 p.m. Sulphur Springs Police arrested Ryan Glen Mize, 22, for sexual assault of a child, according to Criminal Investigator Bo Fox. The offense was reported to the local police last week and following investigation of information provided by the teen’s parents, a warrant was issued Wednesday. Fox stated the investigation is continuing. Arraigned Thursday morning, bond for Mize was set at $50.000 by...
Dumpster Diving Retrieves Credit Cards, ID Taken in Burglaries
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigators along with the assistance of an inmate recovered a number of credit cards and other personal information of local citizens who had been burglarized. It was an instance of dumpster diving in a retail trash container located behind a local outlet mall. The inmate, 18-year old Stephen Charles Gilreath, who reported the location of the stolen identification and credit cards, was given the...
Family Trapped After SUV Crash in Eastern Hopkins County
A family driving from California and headed for Atlanta, was involved in a single car accident Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred on I-30 in eastern Hopkins County. The SUV drifted into the grassy median and traveled several hundred feet before hitting a concrete and cast iron drain. The vehicle’s bumper and various plastic parts were torn from the chassis. The vehicle continued to race further down the median toward...
Additional Charge Filed Against Mapps
An additional charge has been filed against Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps based on a complaint from the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s office. Added to the murder charge is a tampering with evidence with intent to injure. Mapps admitted to throwing into an unspecified body of water the weapon used in the Pacific Park murder of Johnathan Young. The U S Marshal’s office is also processing a charge of crossing state lines to...
