Jack County News

We had some light rain this late afternoon reach into Young and Jack counties. We also had this dry weather and wind whip up a grass fire in Collin County this afternoon.

Samuel Dennis Paschal, 88, died Wednesday, May 23,2012 at his home in Jacksboro.

An escaped inmate from Texas shot and killed himself in western Buncombe County on Tuesday after a high-speed chase with police.

Firefighters mop up an area of the Two Bush Road fire, which burned on April 5, 2009, in Jack County.

Parker County sheriff's authorities say a county inmate who fled a work detail last week by stealing a pickup truck has shot and killed himself after a chase with authorities in North Carolina.

Donald McFaden Orange II walked away from the job detail, near Veal Station Road, Friday afternoon.

Officials say an escaped inmate is armed and dangerous and was last seen in Jack County after escaping from Parker County.

Orange is 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds. He has brown hair and green eyes with a medium build.

Jack County deputies have joined in the manhunt tonight for a Parker County Jail escapee who gained his freedom this afternoon while doing work outdoors for precinct one.

Texas Department of Transportation officials announced Thursday a project plan to widen a seven-mile-plus stretch of U.S. Highway 380 west of Denton.