December 4, 2023 - Emergency personnel responded to a crash involving a passenger car and a train on Sunday, December 3, 2023.

November 30, 2023 - The intersection of Hurst Street and Roughrider Drive in Center was the scene of a three-vehicle crash November 15, 2023.

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 - 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.

Shelby County Commissioners heard a final update involving the Jackson Well Project, funded with American Rescue Plan Act funds (ARPA), during their October 25, 2023, meeting.

The commissioners discussed the payment for final expenses to complete the Jackson Well with the total for these items being $21,463.07. Eric Garrett with Paxton Water Supply addressed the court, ”I want to give come preliminary ‘thank you’s’ to all of you, to you Judge, to this court, to Ann [Blackwell] invaluable help,” said Garrett.