Walnut Springs News

On Nov. 16, at approximately 2:30 a.m., four residences and one business[160]caught fire[160]in the City of Walnut Springs reported the Bosque County Sheriff's Department.

A 19-year-old Walnut Springs man has been charged in connection with the Nov. 17 fires that destroyed four vacant Walnut Springs residences and one commercial building, Bosque County emergency management coordinator Dewey Ratliff said Thursday.

Timothy Joe Conner, Jr., 19, was arrested Tuesday night after five buildings in the small Bosque County town of Walnut Springs caught fire a week earlier, destroying four houses and a business.

Bosque County sheriff's investigator Clint Pullin said Thursday afternoon that he had a list of "persons of interest" in a series of fires in Walnut Springs on Wednesday morning but did not have anyone in custody.

Several structure fires broke out in Walnut Springs in the early morning hours Wednesday that had fire departments from every town in Bosque County busy overnight.