Shepherd News

One suspect is now in custody following a bank robbery on Friday. Police say that at 9 a.m., a suspect robbed the People's State Bank in Shepherd, Texas.

A Marshall man was taken to the hospital by ambulance following a two-vehicle crash about 7 p.m. Friday.

SHEPHERD, TX (KTRE - Law enforcement officers are searching for a man who robbed First State Bank of Shepherd about 9:15 Friday morning.

SHEPHERD Shepherd Independent School District Board of Trustees heard a construction update and approved employee pay increases and stipends last week during a regular meeting.

COLDSPRING The law states that if a commissioner owns a company and that company plans to do business with the county, he must fi le a confl ict of interest disclosure statement with the county.

Severe weather can happen anytime in Texas. "We are subject to many types of weather, fl oods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and much more.

COLDSPRING Application for a Victim Coordinator and Liaison Grant for the criminal district attorney's offi ce and a monetary donation to the sheriff's department was approved by San Jacinto County Commissioners' Court last Wednesday during a regular session of court.

SHEPHERD Ninety percent of eighth graders in Shepherd Independent School District passed the Reading portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test last month, according to Shepherd Middle School Principal Tammy Jordan.

East Texas rancher James Kolek is among the fortunate. Rains fell Thursday morning and a couple of times in the past week on land Kolek manages in San Jacinto County, one of nearly two dozen counties in the eastern part of the state no longer in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday.

The General Missionary Society at Zion Hill First Baptist Church, 1122 N.E. Stallings Drive, will present a Fifth Sunday program at 6 p.m. Sunday.

COLDSPRING Contested races in both of San Jacinto County's school districts will be held Saturday, May 9 to fill expiring positions.

The San Jacinto County Sheriff's Department will be conducting weekly tests of the emergency broadcast system located in Shepherd.

The two men lived like hermits in a junk-cluttered slice of the Piney Woods. One was described by relatives as a feeble curmudgeon who didn't have friends or even a dog.

An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist Not long after director Owen Lowery woke up in a psychiatric ward in 2006, following an aborted plan to kill himself by slicing off his hand, he found solace in the work of writer Richard Bach.

Jaidan Steele's life hinges on someone else dying. For the 16-month-old awaiting a liver transplant, that is a simple fact of life, according to her mother, Jaime Steele.

The program of the First Executive Board East Texas No. 2 District Association will be held Jan.

The following are the police reports for Dec. 7-15. All information is obtained directly from the police reports.

The road to Houston from Port Arthur along Texas 73 used to be a pastoral drive, but now it is downright depressing.

Shepherd High School's National Honor Society held its fi rst Walk for Our Warriors Saturday, Nov.

The following information is taken directly from police reports from the Cleveland Police Department for the period of Nov.