Floods and Wildlife: Catching Snakes
by Mario Villarino During severe days of rain, the accumulation of water in the ground creates a problem to native and non-native plants and animals in our county. Because a high percentage (depending on the size of the component of the soil) of the soil is air, when air gets displaced by water plants can get water logged and animal dens can get flooded too. A common unwanted visitor to higher areas of you properties can be snakes...
Guilty Plea Nets Two Years for Possession; Awaits Rains County Trial
Wednesday afternoon in Eighth Judicial District Court Shawn Edward Harvey, 29, pled guilty to Possession of a Controlled Substance Penalty group 1 (methamphetamine). Harvey’s court appearance was the result of a traffic stop by a Game Warden. It was his second offense. If he is convicted of a new third degree offense or higher in the future, he will face a 25-year to life sentence under the habitual offender statute. Currently, Harvey...
Country Road 1445 Closed; Alternative Routes Announced
With public safety and emergency services as a top priority, Precinct 1 Commissioner Beth Wisenbaker has closed County Road 1445 Wednesday morning, June 1, due to concerns that would endanger life safety. Alternative routes are available to the highly traveled roadway, according to Wisenbaker. She said this county road serves a heavy traffic flow in her precinct. The road is closed due to a large tank car being underlined by flowing...
Fingerprints Return Felon to Hopkins County
Using a different name, Juan Octavio Chapa, 45, was found in Davidson County Jail in Nashville, Tennessee under the name Francisco Renteria-Escamilla. His fingerprints placed on the national data base for wanted felons by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Communication Administrator Ron Lowrie enabled the find. He is now back in Hopkins County Jail having been transported from Davidson County. Chapa was wanted in Hopkins County for a 2004 case...
Flash Flood Watch Issued Through 7 p.m. June 2
A flash flood watch for Hopkins County and all of North and Center Texas has been issued through 7 p.m. Thursday, June 2 according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected across the area through Friday. Many areas have already received 1 to 3 inches of rain since yesterday. Conditions will be tropical-like with thunderstorms producing very heavy rainfall in short periods...
Flash Flood Warning for Hopkins, Hunt, Rains Counties
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… SOUTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… SOUTHERN HUNT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… RAINS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 438 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THIS RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO EXCESSIVE WATER RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLASH FLOODING....
“Updated” Thunderstorm in Hopkins County
At 1:45 p.m. a thunderstorm producing light hail is moving through Hopkins County and is currently between Cumby and Brashear and stretching from West Delta in Delta County to south of Miller Grove. The storm is moving east, southeast. Lightning strikes and small hail is the current concern. It is not considered severe at this time. The thunderstorms continue to reach across the area during the afternoon. By 3:15, it continues to hail...
“Updated” Local Law Enforcement Seek Suspect in Tuesday Morning Burglary
Tuesday morning, May 31, 2016. At 1:50 a.m. a burglar broke the glass front door and gained entrance into AG-Power at 3454 I-30 in Sulphur Springs. While removing two Stihl Pole Saws, he set off the alarm at the location. This is one of a rash of such burglaries that are happening in the North Central and Northeast Texas area. This time, law enforcement has a video. According to Hopkins County Sergeant Corley Weatherford, the subject...
