Crockett News

On August 2, 2014, the longest-running music jamboree in the state of Texas will celebrate its 60th anniversary.

A Houston County grand jury indicted the 41-year-old man accused of getting mad at a woman for not giving him a ride and torching her car.

During a town hall meeting on Monday night, the Crockett Fire Chief announced recent ratings from the Insurance Services Office has rated the city from a Public Protection Classification of a six down to a two.

Despite prior confirmation from Houston County officials that the former Crockett State School could potentially become a facility to house illegal immigrants, the president of the company that manages the facility said on Monday he has vetoed the decision.

Hodge was the youngest of nine children born in Pleasanton on Jan. 2, 1926 to Hodge Pleasant Lord and Sallie Robinson Lord.

After she was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, a 29-year-old woman allegedly kicked a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper while he was transporting her to the Houston County Jail early Saturday morning.

It was the second time Jordan along with her husband and Houston County Justice of the Peace Ronnie Jordan and son Jessie Jordan all climbed to the top of Guadalupe Mountain as part of the Cops on Top.

Officers with the Crockett Police Department arrested a 52-year-old Houston woman on Tuesday after she allegedly became belligerent and aggressive with the staff at a nursing home and then began kicking, swinging, and spitting at the police officers who tried to arrest her.