Commissioners Close Two Polling Places, Move One
Monday (August 14, 2017) morning during their regular session Hopkins County Commissioners eliminated two polling places. Wesley United Methodist Church as a polling place was closed due to their proximity of other polling locations and the voting place at VFW was closed due to electricity issues at that location. Commissioners also agreed to move the Senior Citizens Center polling place to Morning Chapel Missionary Baptist Church....
Cummings Announces Intent to Seek Re-election as JP Precinct 2
Judge Brad Cummings announces his intent to seek re-election for the Republican nomination for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2. “It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve the citizens of Hopkins County as Justice of the Peace for the last 2 ½ years. I look forward to the opportunity to continue to provide assistance, compassion, and service to this county.” Judge Cummings was elected in 2014 and took office January 1, 2015. Since...
Moore Seeks Commissioner Precinct 2 Post
Edward Moore and his family are proud to announce that Edward Moore, or as most know him as Ed Moore, is running in for the office of Commissioner Precinct 2 in Hopkins County. My parents are Fulton and Francis Moore of the community of Shiloh on Dog Town Road in Delta County. My parents were life-long residents of Delta County. I moved to Hopkins County after graduation from Cooper High School. I attended ETSU and served in the...
DPS Will Not Charge Local Law Enforcement for Lab Tests
At the urging of Texas Governor Greg Abbot, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) will not charge law enforcement agencies for state crime lab services beginning September 1. In a letter to DPS, the Governor asked DPS to not initiate the proposed charge for analysis of controlled substances, toxicology and DNA. Despite the state’s tight fiscal budget, Governor Abbott said it would be premature to consider charging law enforcement...
Horace Wayne Scott
Funeral Service for Bro. Horace Wayne Scott, age 73, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at Peerless Baptist Church with Bro. Doyle Hayes officiating, Bro. Joe Perkins and Bro. David Burns assisting. Interment with military honors will follow at Peerless Cemetery with Bryan Scott, Dylan Scott, Colton Wheeler, Terry Wheeler, David James and Donald Hopper serving as pallbearers. J.W. Murray, Jason...
DPS to Begin Charging Local Law Enforcement Agencies for Lab Tests
Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that beginning September 1, 2017, they will begin charging all law enforcement entities that utilize their testing labs. According to Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom and Sheriff Lewis Tatum this sudden bit of budgeting news creates some issues for a budget that is near completion for the county and, specifically, the Sheriff’s Department. This also creates issues for the City of...
Saranzinski’s Travel Plans Cut Short; Back in Jail
Summer travel plans may not work out as expected. Todd Joseph Saranzinski, 55, is in Hopkins County Jail Wednesday charged with Hinder Apprehension or Prosecution Known Felon and with Permit Facilitate Escape Correction Facility after his near round trip Tuesday drive from the Hopkins County Civic Center to near Athens and back to Hopkins County. He didn’t make it to the Civic Center but was stopped on the southern edge of the county...
Escapee Ebey and His Accomplice in Jail After a Tuesday Search
It took the day and assistance from Texas Department of Criminal Justice tracking dogs from Palestine and the Henderson County Sheriff and his deputies but Barney Dwayne Ebey, 53, and his accomplice Todd Joseph Saranzinski, 55, are in Hopkins County jail once again. Ebey fled a workgroup at the Hopkins County Civic Center Tuesday morning around 8 a.m. He was found west of Athens late Tuesday afternoon. Now, Sheriff Lewis Tatum knows...
Paris Man Arrested in Traffic Stop
A traffic stop on Loop 301 at Raintree Circle Sunday afternoon by Hopkins County Deputy Sgt. Kelly Wiser discovered a passenger in the auto was wanted on warrants out of Lamar County. A Paris man, Redarfius Andwone Cooper, 30, was wanted by the Paris Police Department for Felony Evading Arrest Detention with Previous Convictions and by the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office for Manufacture, Delivery Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1...
Additional Charges for Mowrer; Bryant Also Charged
Additional charges were added Tuesday for Jeffrey Edward Mowrer, 25, arrested Monday for Tamper Fabricate Physical Evidence with Intent to Impair and Possession of a Controlled Substance less than 28-grams. Mowrer had fled Hopkins County Deputies attempting to serve an arrest warrant for burglaries that occurred in southern Hopkins County where Mowrer was staying with a female on State Highway 154 (see first arrest below). Along with...
