Polk County News

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.

Year in, year out, the two glossy magnolia trees on Ellis Avenue directly across the street from The Lufkin Daily News, stand as silent sentinels guarding the memories of an unforgettable family who once lived there.

Okay, a little more MSM and otherwise has shed some light on the shooting of a therapy dog for injured Navy SEAL hero Marcus Luttrell.

March 2009 LIVNGSON - The 64th annual Trinity-Neches Livestock Show and Rodeo went off without a hitch Thursday evening.

March 2009 LIVINGSTON - Potential candidates have until 5 p.m. Monday to fi le for a place on the ballot in several city and school board elections to be held May 9. A list of the positions up for election in ...

The nearly $17,000 in items stolen with a series of counterfeit checks passed by a Texas woman in October was returned to property owners Thursday.

March 2009 AUSTIN The check is almost in the mail for Polk County school districts, according to government procurement analyst Mary Scott Nabers.

An empty room and shrinking tribal income is all that is left of the alcohol-free casino on the Alabama Coushatta Tribes' reservation.

Lawyers for a condemned inmate scheduled for execution next week are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a Texas sheriff, accusing them of harassing the prisoner and interfering with efforts to ...

Lawyers for a condemned inmate scheduled for execution next week are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a Texas sheriff, accusing them of harassing the prisoner and interfering with efforts to ...

Thanks go to June Moffett for donating a copy of volume 3 of Polk County, Texas Marriages to our Genealogy department.

February 2009 COLLEGE STATION - The Texas Forest Service is urging citizens across the state to be aware of heightened wildfi re danger due to a low pressure front that will drop humidity levels and produce ...

LIVINGSTON Firefi ghters had to remove the entire roof of a Geo Prizm to remove the driver and passenger after a crash at the intersection of North Washington and North Houston Streets Friday afternoon.

January 2009 LIVINGSTON The third quarter of 2008 started with a bang in Polk County the bang of fi reworks, that is.

Charles Truett Parrish Jr., 53, of Livingston, and previously of Nacogdoches, was killed in an accident at 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, according to the Department of Public Safety.