Student Code of Conduct Handbook Reflects Discipline Changes
The Student Code of Conduct Handbook for Sulphur Springs ISD has been updated to reflect both specific SSISD administrative procedures and practices with new legal requirements defined in the Texas Education Code. Changes to the handbook include changes in the notification requirements to parents regarding violations that may result in placement in alternative classroom situations and/or expulsion. There are various levels of...
Senior Summer Olympics Games!
The Sulphur Springs Senior Center is having Summer Olympic Games. These fun Olympic events occur Thursday, August 25th at The ROC. Some of the activities include, 1K race, bean bag toss, horseshoe pitching, scooter races, wheelchair races, washer pitching, walk races, and much more. The T-shirts are finally in, so please come and sign up. Karon Weatherman Program and Marketing Director Senior Citizen’s Center 150 Martin Luther...
Como Man Assaults Paralyzed Ex-wife
Kenneth Wayne Shaw, 53, of Como, was arrested Thursday evening after a Hopkins County deputy spoke with two individuals at a residence on CR 2320 near Como. Shaw is in Hopkins County Jail charged with Injury Child/Elderly/Disable with Intent Bodily Injury (Felony 3) and is being held on a $30,000 bond. According to the two individuals, Shaw assaulted his disabled ex-wife who is now his girlfriend. The ex-wife was sitting in a...
Mapps Sentenced to 99 Years for Murder of Young
Thursday morning in Eighth Judicial District Court, a Hopkins County Jury assessed a penalty of 99 years without a fine in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps of the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young. Wednesday at noon that same jury found Mapps guilty. The jury deliberated for 30 minutes on the guilty verdict but took four hours to determine the penalty. That four hours was separated by a night of...
Mapps Testifies on His Behalf Wednesday; Jury Finds Him Guilty
At noon Wednesday, Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps was found guilty of the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young. Mapps is accused of the murder of Young at Pacific Park on June 8, 2015. Just before 10 a.m., both the Prosecution and defense closed their case before a Hopkins County Jury in Eighth Judicial Court in Hopkins County in the murder trial. The punishment phase of the trial will begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2016. The final...
Found in Lubbock; Now in Hopkins County Jail
Anthony Wayne Dugan, 35, a bartender in Lubbock, was picked up by Lubbock law enforcement when Hopkins County law enforcement located him through family that told the locals where he worked. Dugan was wanted in Hopkins County for Bail Jumping and Failure to Appear Felony. His bail jumping was for charges including Assault Family Violence, traffic charges, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held in Hopkins County Jail on...
Overlay of I-30 Service Roads From State Highway 19 to Loop 301 Begins August 15
PARIS – Texas Department of Transportation officials today said work on Interstate Highway 30 north and south frontage roads through Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County will begin Aug. 15. The contractor, RK Hall, Paris, Texas, has 62 days to complete this overlay and renovation project with an estimated cost of more than $2.4 million. Weather permitting, this roadway improvement project will be completed by mid-November 2016. The...
