Marion County News

Patriotic music, flag waving, pie and cake auctions, fireworks - it's like something right out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

A woman sentenced in conjunction with a dog hoarding incident in July 2008 was back in Marion County's 115th District Court earlier this week for violating the terms of her probation.

President Charlie Chitwood says he isn't waiting for "divine intervention" to save the Marion County Chamber of Commerce.

State and federal authorities have been called in to investigate what is believed to be an arson occurring at a downtown law office.

A Marion County justice of the peace granted custody of 140 small, mixed-breed dogs and an exotic bird to an animal rescue group following a hearing Wednesday afternoon.

LAKE O' THE PINES - Acting on a seizure warrant issued by Marion County authorities, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas removed 145 small dogs and puppies from the home of an elderly couple on Friday.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office and an animal rescue group seized 131 dogs and a parrot Friday from a Marion County home near Ore City.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas seized 131 dogs and an exotic bird Friday from a property in Ore City.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office and an animal rescue group seized more than 70 dogs and a parrot Friday from a Marion County home near Ore City.

State Rep. Stephen Frost will be the keynote speaker for the annual Marion County Chamber of Commerce Banquet Thursday at Joseph's Riverport Barbecue.

A former city councilman faces up to a year in jail and $4,000 in fines after he admitted to using city equipment on his private property.

A two-year coastal drought in Louisiana, exacerbated by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, has crippled many parishes that deliver crawfish to East Texas.

The annual "Boil on the Bayou" crawfish boil originally scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until April 25.

Two men remain in the Marion County Jail on drug and stolen property charges after a raid just outside the Jefferson city limits on FM 2208.

Bob Bowman's East Texas Most historians spend a considerable time in libraries and, invariably, many of them gravitate to the Jefferson Library, which has a unique history of its own.

A former Gregg County Juvenile Detention Facility officer has been charged with sexual misconduct with juveniles detained at the facility.

A first-ever Irish Stew Cook-off will highlight Jefferson's third annual St. Patrick's Day Fest on March 14 in Otstott Park.

A Jefferson man suspected of shooting two people in Longview has turned himself in to authorities, Longview police said.

Longview police say the man who shot two people last week turned himself in to authorities over the weekend.

A 61-year-old Jefferson man died Saturday when he lost control of a four-wheeler and hit two trees, according to Texas Department of Public Safety officials in Texarkana.