December 5, 2023 - The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the incidence of a shooting on November 30, 2023, in Timpson.
According to Shelby County Sheriff’s Lt. Chad Hooper, officers were dispatched to a residence on Garrison Street around 9pm in response to a request for assistance. When deputies arrived they discovered one individual who had been shot and a suspect which they took into custody.
The individual who had been shot was transported by ambulance to a hospital in Nacogdoches for treatment of their injuries.
November 28, 2023 - The intersection of hurst Street and Cass-Caid Drive was the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Thursday, November 23, 2023.
According to the Center Police Department, at 1:35am a maroon Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck driven by Jorge Vazquez, 21, of Center was northbound in the 800 block of Hurst Street when the Ram left the roadway to the right and struck a concrete drainage culvert, flipping over onto its top, and crossing the 100 block of Cass-Caid Drive. The Ram landed in the parking lot of Roughrider Quick Lube.
November 28, 2023 - (Photo Album) - The Center Tennis Association hosted a tennis tournament on November 25, 2023, at the Coach Leon Dykes Center ISD Tennis Complex.
November 28, 2023 - FM 2468 at the intersection of FM 699 in Center was the scene of a fatal crash on the morning of November 23, 2023.
Emergency personnel were dispatched to the location at 4:02am.
According to information released by Center Police Sgt. Bubba Lee, at an unknown time, a blue Hyundai Elantra driven by Pablo Alejandro Leandro, 24, of Nacogdoches was traveling southeast at a high rate of speed on Portacool Way (FM 2468) when the Hyundai failed to stop at the intersection of Cotton Ford Road.
November 21, 2023 - Shelby County Courthouse offices are scheduled to be open from 8am until 1pm on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, in observation of the Thanksgiving holiday..
The Shelby County Clerk’s office will be closed at 12-noon.
All offices will be closed until Monday, November 27 when they will re-open during normal scheduled hours.