James Ray Groves, Sr.
Funeral services for James Ray Groves Sr., age 73 of Shirley, will be held Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 10 A.M. at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Bailey officiating. Interment will follow at North Hopkins Cemetery with Chris Trout, Preston Groves, Randy Ridner, Kolton Groves, Chester Knox and Doug McCool serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held Monday, February 13, 2017 from 6-8 p.m., at Murray-Orwosky Funeral...
Mary Alice (Hooten) Estes
Funeral services for Mary Alice (Hooten) Estes, age 91, of Sulphur Springs, will be held Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at the First Baptist Church, Spence Chapel, Sulphur Springs with Rev. Gary Jordan officiating and Rev. Fred Lewis assisting. Interment will follow at Pleasant Grove – North Cemetery with Gary Thompson, Robert Goodman II, Sam Silvers, Glen Wardlow, Andy Young, Bill Young, Bobby Goodman and Ronny Doss...
Juanita Marie Johnson
Funeral services for Juanita Marie Johnson, age 89, of Sulphur Springs, have been scheduled for 2:00pm Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at the Tapp Funeral Home Chapel with Justin Wilson officiating. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be held Tuesday, February 14, 2017 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Tapp Funeral Home. Mrs. Johnson passed away at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler on Sunday, February 12,...
Deputy’s Suspicions Lead to Arrest of Cumby Man
At 11:16 p.m. Saturday night, Hopkins County Deputy stopped a vehicle for being suspicious and found the driver, Adam Blaine Cockrell, 24 of Cumby, did not belong in the County Road 1178 area. The deputy noted the odor of marijuana and was a pipe with burn marks in a cup holder. Cockrell also had residue on his shorts. A pat down revealed marijuana in his sock. A backpack in the vehicle contained methamphetamine in a plastic baggie....
Wood County Sheriff’s Report February 1-7, 2017
For KSST’s Wood County audience, we will begin posting the Wood County Sheriff’s Report each week. February 1st While on patrol on FM 14, just north of Hawkins, a deputy observed that a vehicle was failing to maintain a single lane of travel and so conducted a traffic stop. The driver appeared to be intoxicated so he was asked to exit the vehicle. The deputy then noticed marijuana residue on the subject’s clothes. While...
Hopkins County Jail Housing Former Wood County Jail Administrator
Wood County Sheriff’s Office Jail Administrator David McGee, resigned his position during the course of an investigation into an allegation of possible inappropriate contact between him and a former inmate of the Wood County jail. On February 8, 2017, McGee was arrested and charged with two counts of Tampering with a government document and facilitating escape. He is being housed in Hopkins County Jail under bonds totaling $200,000....
DOROTHY LOUISE WEEHUNT
DOROTHY LOUISE WEEHUNT, 90, of Paris, Texas went home to be with her Lord & Savior on Saturday February 11, 2017 at Stillhouse Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Paris. Roden-Pryor Funeral Directors will hold funeral services 1 p.m. Tuesday February 14, 2017 in the Gene Roden Memorial Chapelwill Rev. Eugene Adams officiating. Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one...
Sunday Forecast
Wind Advisory until 5 p.m. with elevated fire weather warning; High: 69; Low: 46; Wind: West, northwest becoming north 15-25 mph, gusting to 40 mph as dry cold front pushes through
SSISD Board Meets Monday
Sulphur Springs School Board meets Monday, February 13th at 6 p.m. for their February session. The board will conduct a public hearing on the 2015-2016 Texas Academic Performance Report and a public hearing on considering designation of the SSISD as a District of Innovation. The Racial profiling report by SSISD police will be presented along with other administrative reports. Several items related to the district of innovation will be...
Three Arrested for Endangering Children in Vehicle at County Building
Three children were left in a Black GMC Yukon in the parking lot in front of the County Attorney, County Clerk, Tax Office building Friday afternoon. Although temperatures were in the 70’s, one the children was found to be sweating profusely and unresponsive. Hopkins County Deputies were dispatched to the scene in reference to the children being locked in the vehicle. It took 60-seconds for a response from a deputy driving by at the...
