Jasper County Sheriff Chuck Havard said a 72-year-old Jasper man wanted on child sex charges turned himself in Thursday, Oct. 1 without incident, closing out a warrant tied to a late-July sheriff’s office investigation.
Say hello to three Livingston businesses that joined 936 Insider this week.
Stephen F. Austin State University won a nearly $2 million U.S. Department of Education grant to help low-income parenting students in Nacogdoches pay for childcare while they finish their degrees.
A 34-year-old Magnolia woman pleaded guilty in federal court this week to billing Medicaid about $478,000 for mental health services she never provided and to using a nurse practitioner’s identity to file the claims.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas will open a free new teen center with tutoring, a lounge and a workout gym at its Lufkin clubhouse on Oct. 22, part of a $500,000 campus overhaul.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Saturday, Oct. 3: burn bans are in effect in seven 936-area counties, no rivers are at flood stage, no active NWS alerts, and all five major 936-area lakes are running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
Five San Augustine County families are still out of their homes near Denning while state emergency crews and energy specialists work to cap a ruptured natural gas well that failed early on Sept. 25 about seven miles outside San Augustine.
The Conroe ISD board of trustees will hold a special public meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, to review the district’s bond program and long-term construction plan and approve appraisers for the state teacher evaluation system.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office arrested 37-year-old Jacob Jones of Kirbyville on Oct. 1 on a felony firearm theft warrant, after a widening investigation recovered 13 of as many as 20 to 30 guns reported missing from a single Jasper County home.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Friday, Oct. 2: a National Weather Service Flood Watch covers Walker and Montgomery counties until 10 a.m., burn bans are in effect in eight 936-area counties, two state highways in Jasper and Polk counties are under full-closure detours, and all five major 936-area lakes are running high except Sam Rayburn.