Camp County News

Texas Rangers have been called in to investigate following an audit of the Camp County district clerk's office.

There's a new way to hunt your food in Pittsburg, for those who keep their ears to the ground.

The Camp County Commissioners Court scheduled a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. Monday to consider acceptance of the district clerk's resignation.

The Pittsburg Farmer's Market is open on Saturdays through Nov. 28, organizers said in a news release.

Hughes Springs ISD is letting out classes at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon because of the flooding conditions in the county.

A high-speed chase through Camp, Titus and Morris Counties Wednesday ended in the arrest of a suspect in the armed robbery of a Gilmer finance company, authorities said.

A daylight robbery sends East Texas officers on a wild chase, topping speeds of 100 miles per hour.

BY PHILLIP WILLIAMS Special Correspondent GILMER - A high-speed chase through Camp and Morris counties today ended in the arrest of a suspect in the armed robbery of a Gilmer finance company in Upshur County, Gilmer police said.

Long-time Paris attorney Jess Nickerson has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for County Court at Law Judge in the March 2 Democratic primary.

The history of East Texas has been written through the early 20th century, a trio of historians said Thursday at a panel discussion in Nacogdoches.

Area runners and The Friends of the Library are hosting the 2nd annual Friends of the Library 5K Fun Run, Walk or Crawl on September 26, 2009 benefiting the Pittsburg-Camp County Library.

Authorities in Pittsburg say residents have been hit with a barrage of phone calls from a Houston area jail.

Vendors, offering a wide variety of items from commercial products to handmade crafts, are invited to rent booth space on the street in front of the downtown businesses.

Camp County's lack of debt and budget reserves should be enough to see it through the coming budget year, County Judge Thomas Cravey said Wednesday.

A 32-year-old ex-Gilmer reserve police officer and former Upshur County sheriff's dispatcher drowned Thursday in Lake Bob Sandlin as the result of a diabetic attack, said Camp County Justice of the Peace Bobby Carpenter.

WHEN A HIGH pressure ridge settles over Texas and weeks are seamlessly hot as Hades, I think of the folks up north and try to be happy for them - so relieved to be sprung from winter's grip that they don't want to "waste" a single summer day.

The Upshur County Commissioners Court, at their meeting Wednesday, tabled action on closing Reindeer Road.

Though the blistering hot weather is making most of us in East Texas miserable, one business is loving it right now.

Lush green acres of grape vines surrounding small wineries might seem out of place among the cotton fields, cattle ranches and oil rigs of East Texas, but local vineyard owners find the area meets their needs.

The Camp County Courthouse lawn could soon feature a monument to military veterans.