A Livingston man has been booked into the Jasper County Jail on a $1 million bond with the charge of murder. Jasper Police responded to a call at the Myrtis Village Apartments just off Highway 190 after 4 a.m. Saturday. Law enforcement found a woman dead, later identified as Rosalin Lewis, 24, of Jasper. Lewis was a cheerleading coach for youth…

A 2022 Dodge Ram pickup overturned after attempting to make a curve on FM 3188. Courtesy photo TCNS staff Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers are investigating a crash on Farm-to-Market Road 3188, near the 680-mile marker, that occurred Wednesday. Reports indicate that at approximately 8:40 p.m., a 2022 Dodge Ram pickup was traveling…

Special to the News-Times A pre-construction meeting was held last week at the Lufkin District Office, signaling the start of an 8-year construction project that will be the largest project to date for the district. Engineers, contractors, utility company representatives, consultants and other interested parties met to discuss the pending…

Special to the Booster NACOGDOCHES – A team of three sports business students in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business earned a spot in the final four of the Sport Marketing Association’s 2023 Case Study Competition in October at the SMA annual conference in Tampa Bay, Florida. Eli Standley of Warren, helped secure SFA a…

From Enterprise Staff Two different juries handed down large sentences for Michael Bee Hodge who on May 11 was on a stolen motorcycle and failed to pull over, leading police on a chase through Livingston. When Hodge was cornered, he pulled a gun on an officer, compelling that officer to use deadly force. On Oct. 12, a jury convicted Hodge for…

Educators, law enforcementspeak to fentanyl problem By Chris Edwardsnews@tylercountybooster.com SPURGER — Last September, Brandy Melo received a call that no parent wants to receive. One of her sons called her to inform her that her 13-year-old son Kaysen Villarreal was dead. Villarreal was the victim of an unintentional fentanyl overdose. The…

By Emily Banks Wooteneditor@polkenterprise.com The investigation continues into a head-on collision that occurred Thursday night killing a young mother and three of her children and resulting in life-threatening injuries for a fourth child. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a 2011 Buick Lucerne driven by Shemikia Brown, 34 of…

PHOTO BY PAM NOBLES By Emily Banks Wooteneditor@polkenterprise.com An explosion attributed to a “forklift incident” at Sound Resource Solutions, an industrial chemical manufacturing plant located at 731 FM 1127 in Shepherd, wreaked havoc in East Texas Wednesday. A major highway was closed, a school district was evacuated and multiple other school…

Two people sustained non-incapacitating injuries following a two-vehicle collision that occurred at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday in the intersection of North Washington Avenue and West Feagin Street in Livingston. A 2017 Dodge Durango driven by Jessica Thompson, 30 of Livingston, was traveling southbound in the 800 block of North Washington. A 2019 Ford…

“Wild” Bill Spurlock and Randy C. Moore By Chris Edwardsnews@tylercountybooster.com WOODVILLE – Magic is bound to happen when you get two well-travelled, musically adventurous singer-songwriter/musician types together in the same room in a small town, right? Randy C. Moore and “Wild” Bill Spurlock are proof of that hypothetical. The two musicians…

By Chris Edwardsnews@tylercountybooster.com WOODVILLE – Less than a month after Woodville police officer Troy Costello returned home from the hospital, after being shot during an incident in September, he is reportedly making great progress. According to Woodville Chief of Police Mike McCulley, Costello continues to improve “day to day while at…

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s assistance after receiving a report of a motor vehicle burglary Wednesday in Moscow. The two suspects are black males seen in the attached photos. The two were last seen in the City of Livingston on foot. The male with dreadlocks was last seen wearing a camouflage hoodie, and the male with…

There has been a chemical plant explosion in Shepherd, TX on FM 1127. Responders have communicated that a plume is heading towards the Livingston area. Polk County Emergency Management recommends that residents along US Hwy 59 from Goodrich to Leggett shelter in place and turn off HVAC systems in homes and businesses immediately. At this time, the…

STOCK PHOTO SJNT staff SAN JACINTO COUNTY — Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers investigated a fatal crash on Farm-to-Market Road 3081, near the 424-mile marker, that occurred, Wednesday. Reports indicate that at approximately 4:15 p.m., a 2009 Kawasaki motorcycle was traveling north, and as the rider passed a school bus in a no-passing…

AUSTIN — The Texas Comptroller’s office approved and paid out a record $344 million in unclaimed property during the past fiscal year, Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced recently. The record in unclaimed property returns tops the $309 million returned to rightful property owners in fiscal 2022, and it is the fourth time in the last five fiscal…