November 11, 2021 - State Highway 7 West, just under one mile from FM 711 was the scene of a single-vehicle crash involving a tree Thursday, November 11, 2021.
November 9, 2021 - Alvin Davis II, 30, of Center had several cases to face in court which recently had varying outcomes, some of which were due to complications with available evidence.
According to court documents, the case against Davis for possession of a controlled substance was heard in the 123rd Judicial District Court before Judge Leann Kay Rafferty. Representing the state was Lynda K. Russell, 123rd Judicial Assistant District Attorney, and representing Davis was Clay Thomas.
November 5, 2021 - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is proud to announce that its Crime Laboratory Division laboratories have been recognized for voluntarily adopting national forensic standards published by the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC), created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The DPS laboratories have been recognized by NIST as OSAC Implementers.
November 5, 2021 - It was late in the afternoon when Isaac Simmons got the call. A vehicle was broken down along a stretch of I-45 in Fairfield, and Simmons, a 35-year-old tow truck driver headed out to help.
While winching the car onto his tow truck, the routine stop suddenly became horrific. A speeding car careened off the road, rolled up the tow truck’s sliding bed and flew through the air. The airborne car slammed into Simmons. Two days later he died, making him one of more than 3,200 people who have been killed on Texas roads so far in 2021.
November 3, 2021 - State Highway 87 South was the scene of a single-vehicle crash just outside of Shelbyville Wednesday, November 3, 2021, during rainy conditions.
November 3, 2021 - The unofficial results for the November 2nd Constitutional Amendment Election for eight State of Texas Propositions are in! All propositions passed locally as well as statewide. Locally, the narrowest margin between 'For' and 'Against' was on Proposition 2 with a difference of just 37 votes.