February 24, 2017 - Charles Mitchell, 273rd Judicial District Judge, signed the order to dismiss the whistleblower case against Shelby County Sheriff Willis Blackwell and Shelby County on February 21, 2017 with prejudice.

The term "with prejudice" means the plaintiff, Derek Barbee cannot file another case making the same claim.

February 24, 2017 - All four lanes on the north end of Timpson on U.S. Highway 59 North are currently blocked. The Timpson Volunteer Fire Department will be diverting traffic onto FM 1645 toward Center. 

February 23, 2017 - Officials with the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas, Sabine National Forest, have advised a prescribed burn located in Compartment 30,37-41, 4,943 acres.

February 20, 2017 - Panola College has received dozens of phone calls in the past few days reporting the problem of receiving a phone call from the College attempting to sell long-term health insurance and burial insurance. Panola College confirms these calls did not originate from the Panola College campus and is apparently the work of somebody using technology to mask the true source of the calls, commonly referred to as “caller ID spoofing” in the telecommunications industry.

The intersection of Bremen Street and U.S. Highway 59 through Timpson was the scene a of a two vehicle crash on February 16, 2017.