Two Arrested with Meth on Country Road
October 12, 2018 – Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigator Wade Sheets noticed a 2015 Chevrolet Malibu backed up to a gate on County Road 4703 and saw two individuals in the vehicle. Upon making contact with the passengers, he saw a loaded glass pipe in the passengers lap and the driver was shaking a butane bottle. The glass pipe contained methamphetamine. In a search of the driver’s pockets, the investigator found a blue colored...
Alicia Malagon Retana
Funeral services for Alicia Malagon Retana, age 54, of Yantis, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 13, 2018 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Yantis Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday, October 12, 2018 at West Oaks Funeral Home. Alicia passed away on Saturday, October 6, 2018. Arrangements are under the direction of West Oaks Funeral Home.
Aphids in trees By Mario Villarino
Aphids suck plant sap from leaves, stems or even roots of plants. Most are very host-specific, meaning they feed on only one or a few related kinds of plants. Therefore, there is usually little danger they will move to other, different kinds of plants. If wilting is apparent, or the sticky honeydew (aphid droppings, may result in plant covered with black sooty mold) become a problem, control with insecticides labeled for aphid...
Friday Forecast
40% chance of showers and thunderstorms; High: 66; Low: 58; Wind: Southeast around 5 mph
Bobby Ray “Buddy” Ferrell
Bobby Ray “Buddy” Ferrell, 80, of Commerce, passed away Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at his residence surrounded by loving family. Bobby Ray “Buddy” Ferrell Buddy was born in Hopkins County, Texas, on January 9, 1938, to Minnie Cecil Burns and Thomas Grady Ferrell. In 1959 Buddy worked for 1 year as an equipment operator at McKinsey Asphalt in Greenville until he entered the United States Air Force in 1960. Upon...
Local Fundraiser Set to Benefit Christian School in Kenya
Local resident June Lucky visited the Ongoro Christian School in Kenya in April of this year as a part of a tour of orphanages and other work being carried out in the Homa Bay region of Kenya. The tour of 15 orphanages in the Rift Valley of Kenya supervised by Kenya Widows and Orphans (KWO) led Lucky to begin planning a way to provide $4000 needed to buy sufficient books for the Ongoro School. She said that when she visited the...
Ratcliffe Legislation Provides Local Investigator Needed Forensic Equipment
WASHINGTON – Rep. John Ratcliffe’s (R-Texas) legislation to fight crime using digital evidence led to the prosecution of dozens of child exploitation cases throughout Northeast Texas since it was signed into law by President Donald Trump last year. “I’m incredibly grateful that my new law allows law enforcement officers in Northeast Texas to better leverage digital avenues to get dangerous child sex offenders off the streets,”...
Local Man Sentenced to 75 Years in Prison
David Carl Harvey, 41 In a probation revocation trial Thursday in Eighth Judicial District Court, David Carl Harvey, 41, of Sulphur Springs, was sentenced to 75 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Harvey, who has a lengthy arrest record dating back to January, 2000, was charged twice in January of this year for Manufacture Delivery of a Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1 more than 1-gram but less than 4-grams. One of...
Diamond Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison
Howard Gregg Diamond, 57, of Sherman, was sentenced to 20 years in Federal prison and forfeited his DEA registration number following his plea of guilty in the Eastern District of Texas court. He had faced life in prison. Diamond was arrested last year on charges related to prescriptions of opioids including fentanyl, hydrocodone, and morphine that were named as the cause in seven deaths in Oklahoma and in Sulphur Springs, McKinney...
