Red River County News

Registered sex offenders in Miller County have to report to the Bi-State Justice Building in Texarkana for a mandatory counseling session on Halloween night.

At 8.2 percent, Texas' unemployment rate is the highest in 22 years. But that sounds enviable in Morris County, an isolated industrial island in the northeast corner of the state where the jobless rate has reached 15.6 percent, even higher than in Michigan.

The executive committee of Ark-Tex Council of Governments is to consider several area grant applications when it meets at 10 a.m. Thursday in Omaha.

If Marvin Nichols Reservoir is built by Dallas on the Sulphur River in northern East Texas, dozens of small communities will be inundated, ending a rich part of the region's history.

Northeast Texas has been blessed with near record rainfall this year. But when the rains stop and the sun comes out, the danger of wildfires quickly rises.

Andy B. Patterson, 88, of Detroit passed away Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, at Paris Regional Medical Center.

Joe Storey, Jr., 84, of Garland and formerly of the English community, passed away Thursday, Sept.

This morning I'm headed to Clarksville, Red River County, on a grave mission. At 1 p.m. in historic Clarksville City Cemetery, four East Texas pioneers from long, long ago will be honored for their service to our country ... and to Texas.

A Red River County grand jury has indicted six people on charges ranging from driving while intoxicated to drug charges.

Are you doing Connecticut research? Long-distance research can really be a challenge.

Attorney Mark Lesher and his wife Rhonda have filed a petition in the District Court of Collin County against Red River County resident Shannon Coyel, accusing Coyel of 'malicious prosecution.' The suit comes as a result of a sexual assault trial in McKinney in which the Leshers were acquitted in January.

Visitors to Clarksville attorney Dan Meehan's office first must pass the scrutiny of Henry, his 14-year-old sidekick.

A major industry is looking to establish itself in Red River County, and Tuesday officials of Rose Acre Farms outlined their plans for a 25 million-chicken egg laying operation.

Attorney Mark Lesher and his wife, Rhonda, of Red River County have zeroed in on a group of bloggers they say have for more than a year filed 'malicious and damaging' messages against them.

Attorney Mark Lesher and his wife, Rhonda, of Red River County have zeroed in on a group of bloggers they say have for more than a year filed 'malicious and damaging' messages against them.

Life from now on will be harder for red imported fire ants in some North Texas communities, say experts with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

Thomas W. Burnett, 85, of Blossom passed away Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at Paris Regional Medical Center.

Life from now on will be harder for red imported fire ants in some North Texas communities, say experts with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

A NEW BOOK by Lufkin authors Bob and Doris Bowman explores 49 lynchings and legal hangings that occurred in East Texas between 1862 and 1942.

The widow of slain Red River County Commissioner Alton Peek, facing murder charges in the death of her former husband, will likely go to trial sometime in September, according to Red River County Attorney Val Varley.