Malakoff News

All Press Releases for July 02, 2009>> Remember Michael Jackson, he either passed from us leaving only his music, or in death he can remain an icon to set millions of sheople free from slick drug advertisements and the resulting drug dependency.

Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt today arrested 12 Athens-area parents who violated court orders requiring them to pay child support.

Dan Dent has been Hill County district attorney for 29 years, but it didn't take him long to categorize last week's nightmarish incident in which Debra Janelle Jeter reportedly slashed the throats of her two daughters a week after undergoing psychiatric treatment.

Robert Lane may have retired at the end of May with 38 years under his belt with Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, but doing nothing is hardly in his future.

A Malakoff man will serve time for possession of an unlawfully made incendiary device.

A 21-year-old Malakoff man who threw Molotov cocktails out of his car in Athens was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Wednesday for possessing the illegal explosives.

Athens school officials on Friday announced several changes to its 2009-2010 organizational structure.

A Henderson County Drug Enforcement Unit investigation led to the arrest of a Malakoff man Thursday.

Staff Report Brock's boys' doubles team of Levi Joy and Ryan Burden took the Class 2A state championship Tuesday morning, defeating Dylon and Darius Neal of Malakoff in three sets, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. The girls' doubles duo of Laura Brainard and Rachel Anthony finished runners-up to Big Lake Reagan's Maritza Sosa and Victoria Marquez.

The early bird got to vote Monday, April 27 for area school board and municipal elections but there is still time to vote, as elections approach May 9. Lake area cities will have elections at the following locations.

"This money essentially came from the sky," TxDot spokesperson, Larry Krantz, said.

Voters begin making decisions in school board and municipal races Monday as early balloting begins for the May 9 elections.

It's time to dust off the cornbread recipes, get the fancy hat off the shelf and to find your best friend's leash....that all means it's time for the 12th Annual Cornbread Festival.

We added two people to our wanted board, and both of them are on the most wanted list from their respective counties.

The Henderson County Sheriff's Department recovered a pair of motorcycles Monday evening that had been reported stolen earlier in the day.

The Henderson County Commissioners Court approved contracts with municipalities and school boards on Tuesday.

April is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Child Abuse Awareness Month, and the week of April 26-May 2 is National Crime Victims Rights Week.

About three hours after Trinidad and Malakoff Volunteer Fire Departments left a house fire on Wednesday evening, it rekindled in the attic.

A week after a teen and his grandfather went missing while fishing, the teen's body has been recovered from Richland Chambers Reservoir in Central Texas.

The body of 17-year-old Jerrod Rachel has been recovered from the Richland Chambers Reservoir.