Shelby County News

The DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking information from the public in the homicide investigation of a Logansport man.

The man accused of shooting another man in the chest in Shreveport's Sunset Acres neighborhood surrendered to law enforcement agents at the Caddo Correctional Center Monday night.

A slight earthquake was registered in East Texas near the Louisiana border, four days after a sharper shock struck the area.

East Texas has been shaken this past week by two earthquakes, and the region's natural gas drilling could be what has triggered them.

East Texas experiences another earthquake shortly after 3 am this morning; three miles east of Timpson .

The quake, at a depth of three miles, was centered near Timpson, about 155 miles east-southeast of Dallas, according to the USGS.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer Residents of Shelby County were awakened this morning by an earthquake in the same vicinity as another quake just last week.

The USGS confirms that a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 3 miles east of Timpson, Texas, at around 3:15 Thursday morning.

National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist Amy Vaughan says the quake happened at 3:12 a.m. Thursday and had a magnitude of 4.3. It was centered near Timpson, Texas.

Larry Burns and his work crew were at Timpson's Martin Luther King Park installing playground equipment when they heard the rumbling.

Residents in Shelby County and Nacogdoches County got a shaking surprise Thursday morning when a 3.7 earthquake hit southwest of Timpson.

Documents reviewed by The Associated Press show authorities in a Texas town under investigation for allegedly shaking down motorists for money sometimes threatened to take away the travelers' children.

Authorities in a Texas town under investigation for allegedly shaking down motorists for their cash sometimes used the travelers' children as bargaining chips in their attempt to seize money, records show.

Convicted killer, Robert Glen Coleman is scheduled to be back in court Thursday afternoon for official sentencing.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office uncovered more details about a shooting in the Joaquin Country Inn that left one person dead and two others wounded.