Kaufman County News

The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office is making available a citizen-friendly, easy to use, sex offender website for all of Kaufman County.

Sometimes domestic violence victims are afraid to call police. Often it is because they fear their abusers reaction or possible retaliation for reporting them.

A Farmer's Branch area man is arrested in the deaths of a mother and her little girl, whose bodies' were found in a Kaufman County ditch earlier this week.

On November 10, 2009 at approximately 10:46, Kaufman County Sheriffs Office received a 911 call in reference to two bodies that had been discovered in a bar ditch on County Road 280, just off of County Road 987 in Kaufman County area known as Post Oak Bend.

A 37-year-old man from Farmers Branch has been charged with capital murder in connection with the deaths of a 30-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter.

Two bodies found in a flooded drainage culvert were identified as a woman and her 10-year-old daughter, and investigators have a suspect in custody,A the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office said.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 4:43 pm US/Central Reporting Marianne Martinez POST OAK BEND Residents of a Kaufman County town have more questions than answers after the bodies of two people were found in a culvert.

The Kaufman County Sheriffs Office is investigating the deaths of two females whose bodies were found in the Post Oak Bend area.

An early morning crash killed a Kaufman County man whose pick-up crashed over a guard-rail near downtown Dallas today.

A custody hearing will be held this morning to determine if the SPCA of Texas will keep a number of animals seized from a Kaufman County property on Tuesday.

John Allen "Jay" Hoskins, a reserve officer who investigated The Ellis County Press' former news editor and a former police chief ultimately leading to their arrests, has resigned.

Fire investigators require unique training. The investigators, such as fire marshals for cities and counties, are considered firefighters and police officers, and they frequently need continuing education in both fields, said Mark Moore, criminal investigator with the Upshur County Sheriff's Office and president of the East Texas Arson ...

Phishing Scammers Have Been At It Again According to Kaufman County Sheriff's Office, over this past weekend almost all areas in Kaufman County were phone phished by scammers attempting to obtain confidential information from area residents.

Trick or Treat is fast approaching and as it does as parents we could use a little reminder of the do's and don't of keeping our children safe while they are trick or treating.

From Staff Reports The Navarro County Commissioners Court is scheduled to meet in regular session at 10 a.m. Monday in the County Courtroom at the Navarro County Courthouse.

Torrential rains have streams out of their banks in Kaufman County this morning.

'He's no more demented than I am.' By Bob Belcher Daily Sun The jury was out only 15 minutes.

Economic development is alive and well in Terrell, as witnessed by the recent applications by five developer-partners for Tax Increment Finance funds, centered on the proposed Baylor Medical Terrell at the corner of Spur 557 and Interstate 20 in Terrell.

By Janet Jacobs Daily Sun The competency trial of Lynn Marriott began in earnest Wednesday with testimony from Marriott's daughter, Kali Marriott; her fiance, David Roberts; his psychiatrist, Cathrine Roberts ; his sister, Rita Wilemon; various doctors who evaluated him, two friends from church, and his sister-in-law, Karen Hayes.

Wills Point police officer Nicole Griffin arrested a male suspect after a high-speed chase reaching speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour on Wednesday morning.