Polk County News

Polk County's ability to withstand the heavy rainfall Monday without serious consequences is evidence that disaster preparedness is improving in the wake of Hurricane Ike.

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - A Polk County man is in jail and stolen property recovered in connection with breakins at two separate locations.

TX teacher files suit; Says state-required fingerprinting against her religion - 'Mark of the Beast' November 7, 1:50 PM Atheism Examiner Trina Hoaks Texas teacher believes fingerprinting is the "Mark of the Beast." MS Word Stock Photo A teacher in Polk County, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the state for requiring her to get fingerprinted to ...

Firefighters honored Jimmy Stephens, who held the call sign "Unit 2" with Livingston Volunteer Fire Department for 36 years, during funeral services Saturday.

Failure to yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic caused a two-car collision on West Church Street last Thursday that caused a minivan to overturn, but apparently caused no serious injuries.

Polk County and some of its cities are eligible for grant money from the state for energy conservation efforts.

At the end of the month, Texas motorists can say "adios" to a program that many law enforcement officers credit with reducing traffic deaths.

September 2009 MOSCOW - Three suspects are being held in the Polk County jail on charges related to a robbery at the Best Western motel in Cleveland and fleeing from law enforcement agencies that chased them from the Livingston Inn to Moscow.

A Sunday afternoon drive in a classic muscle car left one dead in Polk County when the car rolled over and crushed a passenger.

A Montgomery County dead beat dad received the maximum sentence on Tuesday, after years of refusing to pay child support for his three children.

August 2009 AUSTIN - Onalaska is continuing to show the strongest sales tax revenues among Polk County cities, according to disbursements released by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Friday.

July 2009 LIVINGSTON - County Commissioners voted to name Woodville-based Napco, Inc.

July 2009 LIVINGSTON - Jimmie Lee Menefee Jr. was sentenced to five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on two counts of delivery of a controlled substance in Judge Elizabeth Coker's 258th District Court on Monday, according to a statement released by the Polk County District Attorney's office.

Authorities are searching for a man that drowned while fishing below Lake Livingston Dam Thursday afternoon.

A law enforcement officer who worked for multiple agencies in Montgomery County over the years remains in critical condi tion Wednesday, along with his passenger, following a Monday night motorcycle crash in Polk County.

May 2009 LIVINGSTON - Polk Central Appraisal District and the county's local school districts appealed the Texas Comptroller's fi nding that Polk County homes were under appraised for tax year 2008.

A Louisiana man condemned for fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend at her East Texas trailer home after she refused his demand for money lost an appeal Wednesday before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

May 2009 LIVINGSTON - Polk County, so far, has been able to avoid an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, formerly known as Swine Flu, but nationwide the number of confi rmed cases has risen.

Livingston woman arrested in Conroe, Conroe man arrested in Livingston. Story by Jamie Nash / Video by Scott Engle May 9, 2009 CONROE- Four days after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released his Child Support Division's new Top Ten List of Texas' Most Wanted Child Support Evaders, complete with photos, two suspects were in jail and both arrests ...

A Polk County grand jury today indicted death row convict Richard Lee Tabler, his mother and sister and a former death row offender for alleged cell-phone smuggling that sparked a statewide controversy and lockdown of all state prisons.