Polk County News

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - David Earl Stanley, 58 of Conroe, was found guilty of arson, a first degree felony Nov.

November 2009 LIVINGSTON J.E. Kingham Construction Co. gave Polk County Commissioners a guaranteed maximum price of $8,992,000 for the Polk County Judicial Center which will be substantially complete by July 25, 2011 during Tuesday's session of Commissioners Court.

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - A $250,000 grant project to pave streets in the northwest part of the city has been approved six months ahead of schedule and the city council granted City Manager Marilyn Sutton authority Tuesday to seek bids for engineering and administration services to set the paving project in motion.

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - A Polk County Grand Jury handed down two additional indictments against Jennifer Ann Hudspeth, 37, a former teacher with the Corrigan-Camden Independent School District on Oct.

Polk County Enterprise - November 2009 HERNDON, Va. - National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation announced Tuesday that East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Long before U.S. Highway 59 became the principal highway from East Texas to Houston and the Gulf Coast, Highway 35 ran along a route just west of 59, passing through the center of towns like Livingston, Lufkin and Diboll.

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.