San Jacinto County News

According to Fort Hood officials the leaders of the Pentagon's review board will meet Tuesday afternoon on post to begin the investigation into the factors that lead to the Fort Hood mass shootings on Nov.

The Austin Police Department has charged 17-year-old Jay David Carbullido with five counts of aggravated assault for firing a gun near Austin High School Monday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for 14-year-old girl from San Jacinto County. Angela Rodriguez was last seen in Shepherd, Texas and wearing an unknown color shirt, gray capris pants and blue and white Jordan shoes.

November 2009 COLDSPRING A triple murder and suicide in the Bear Creek community Saturday has left grieving friends and family grappling with questions about whether the tragedy could have been averted.

A mental health official was among those who contacted a Texas sheriff's office to try to get help sent to a home where four people were later found dead.

Sharon Raechele Torres, right, helps hold up her mother, Sharon Clark, as they and other family members attend the funeral Friday for Shara Torres and her daughter Sarah in Cleveland.

The family of a Lufkin teen who died in a drunk driving accident two years ago was heartbroken Friday after hearing the final sentence handed to the man responsible.

Graveside services were held Friday for two of four people killed in a San Jacinto County murder-suicide. Shara Torres and her four-year-old daughter Sarah Whitmire were shot to death November 7th by Torres' boyfriend.

Supt. Donna Gill on Wednesday told The Associated Press that the fire was traced to an electrical problem in the school's concession stand.

San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters on Tuesday promised a full inquiry into why seven hours passed before his deputies responded to repeated pleas for help for a bipolar man, arriving after the man killed three others and himself.

For seven hours Saturday, friends and relatives of Oliver "Bubba" Bills Jr. made repeated calls to the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office seeking help for the man who was hallucinating and behaving more violently as the day progressed.

Man suspected of killing 3, then himself in San Jacinto Co. Nov. 9, 2009, 5:45AM Share Share A man in San Jacinto County shot and killed three people, including a 6-year-old girl, Sunday night before shooting himself dead, according to sheriff's deputies.

COLDSPRING The newly adopted county budget was amended last Tuesday to remove a $500 salary increase for secretaries and foremen in Precincts 2, 3 and 4 by a 4-1 vote.

Authorities called to check on a family's well-being in a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death.

A welfare check on a family in San Jacinto County led to the discovery of four bodies in an apparent triple murder and a suicide.

Four people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in San Jacinto County. The shootings happened Saturday night northwest of Cleveland.

COLDSPRING The H1N1 "swine fl u" vaccine should be in San Jacinto County around mid-month, according to San Jacinto County Emergency Management Coordinator Judy Eaton.

SAN JACINTO COUNTY Police are investigating after they said a man went on a deadly rampage and killed three people, then himself in San Jacinto County on Saturday.

A helpful reader points to a December 2007 article from the San Jacinto County Times about the case of Richard Lynn Winfrey, Sr., which was accepted this week by the Court of Criminal Appeals for purposes of evaluating scent lineup evidence.

The prosecutor in the case of a Trinity man who received shock probation for the drunk driving death of a Lufkin teenager said Tuesday he is looking into whether the defendant was even eligible for that sentence.