August 13, 2025 - State Highway 87 near FM 147 was the scene of a single-vehicle fatality crash Sunday, August 10, 2025.

Personnel with the Shelbyville Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene at 1:35am with their main engine and found the driver of the vehicle to be trapped inside. The firefighters extricated the driver from the vehicle utilizing Jaws-of-Life to pop the driver’s door out and cut a corner of the roof. Although life-saving efforts were performed once the driver was removed from the vehicle he had succumbed to his injuries.

August 11, 2025 - Roscoe McSwain, Commissioner Precinct 1, advises that CR 1049 will be closed starting Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 7 am. 

This will be for a tree removal project at Straw Creek Bridge, and will hopefully be reopened August 14.

August 6, 2025 - Shelby County Juvenile Probation has taken its first step to ultimately becoming one department with First Judicial District Juvenile Probation Department (1st JD) out of Jasper.

August 1, 2025 - Commissioner Roscoe McSwain has indicated traffic cones will remain at the site of repair on CR 1490 until Saturday morning, August 2, 2025. Travelers are advised to continue to use caution through this area. It is down to one lane of travel.

July 31, 2025 - I announce my resignation from the District Clerk’s Office effective August 1, 2025. For a little over twenty years now, it has been my privilege to have served you, the people of Shelby County and the many visitors who came into your District Clerk’s Office.

I have made life long friends and met a multitude of colorful people that I will never forget! There are those that may say that I too, have become one of those colorful people. And, they may be right!