Corrigan News

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - A $250,000 grant project to pave streets in the northwest part of the city has been approved six months ahead of schedule and the city council granted City Manager Marilyn Sutton authority Tuesday to seek bids for engineering and administration services to set the paving project in motion.

A Corrigan man responsible for a May 30 drunk driving crash in Burke that left three people dead has been formally indicted by an Angelina County Grand Jury.

At the end of the month, Texas motorists can say "adios" to a program that many law enforcement officers credit with reducing traffic deaths.

The date of a gospel concert was reported inaccurately in Saturday's Journal. Walter Plant, of Corrigan, Texas, will present a concert at 7 p.m. today at Grand Avenue United Methodist Church, Eighth and Grand.

September 2009 MOSCOW - Three suspects are being held in the Polk County jail on charges related to a robbery at the Best Western motel in Cleveland and fleeing from law enforcement agencies that chased them from the Livingston Inn to Moscow.

August 2009 AUSTIN - Onalaska is continuing to show the strongest sales tax revenues among Polk County cities, according to disbursements released by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Friday.

Driving to and from Houston last weekend I thought of trips on that same stretch of highway when I was a little kid.

July 2009 LIVINGSTON - Jimmie Lee Menefee Jr. was sentenced to five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on two counts of delivery of a controlled substance in Judge Elizabeth Coker's 258th District Court on Monday, according to a statement released by the Polk County District Attorney's office.

U.S. marshals and border patrol are on the lookout for a man accused in three deaths in a May 29 wreck near Diboll, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety said.

Area law enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol are looking for a Corrigan man wanted on charges of intoxication manslaughter for an alleged drunk driving car crash that killed three people in May in Burke.

May 2009 LIVINGSTON - Polk County, so far, has been able to avoid an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, formerly known as Swine Flu, but nationwide the number of confi rmed cases has risen.