Houston County News

Crockett City Councilman Robert Meadows has clarified that he was referring to Crockett ISD when he questioned Crockett Police Chief Jimmy Fisher during the Monday, May 21 Crockett City Council meeting.

Authorities in Houston County say an incident involving a plane near Grapeland was simply an emergency landing piloted by a nearby landowner.

A Crockett man remained in the Houston County Jail Friday, May 11 after being arrested by the Crockett Police Department last weekend on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated kidnapping of a 31-year-old Crockett woman.

Large amounts of illegal drugs, $1,500.23 in cash and a 2005 Lincoln Navigator were seized by the Houston County Sheriff's Office Tuesday, May 8 in southern Houston County.

Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was the beginning of European settlement in East Texas.

Roy Allen Lucas, 21, of Crockett was arrested Monday, April 30 by the Houston County Sheriff's Office at the site of an active meth lab.

The grill of a Ferguson tractor that is owned by Pearland Bluebonnet Antique Tractor Club president Larry Steed.