Texas Recognizes September as Suicide Prevention Month AUSTIN – Texas is working toward preventing suicide among young adults and veterans in the state, highlighting the resources available to people at risk of suicide and offering support for loved ones who can help. As September kicks off National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Texas health officials urge

COLLEGE STATION – Some Texas landowners may be eligible for funding to help with prescribed burning costs on private lands. Now through September 30, 2019, Texas A&M Forest Service is accepting grant applications to reimburse landowners for the costs of having a prescribed burn conducted on their property by certified and insured prescribed burn mangers.

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office filed a civil Medicaid fraud lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for misrepresentations made to the Texas Medicaid program about their dangerous opioid drug, Duragesic. The State alleges the companies directed their sales representatives to deliver false

AUSTIN – Feral hogs are so loathed by landowners in Texas for their habitat destroying behavior that beginning Sept. 1, you won’t even need a hunting license to pursue them on private property. That’s when a new law takes effect removing even more obstacles from controlling hog numbers. The new law, SB 317 by Sen.

  TYLER – The University of Texas at Tyler has announced that an Introduction to Government Contracting seminar will be held Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Kilgore for businesses and entrepreneurs. The seminar, hosted by the UT Tyler Soules College of Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute in partnership with the Cross Timbers Regional Procurement Center, is

AUSTIN – Game wardens will be out in force patrolling the waterways over the Labor Day holiday weekend to help ensure Texans make it back home safely. They’ll also be educating folks about Kali’s Law, the new mandatory ignition “kill switch” requirement for boat operators that goes into effect Sept. 1. Kali’s Law was established

Smith County 114th District Court Administrator Tammy Camp-Miller was recognized Tuesday for 25 years of service to the county. “I cannot tell you how much Tammy means to the 114th District Court and all courts in Smith County,” 114th District Judge Christi Kennedy said during Mrs. Camp-Miller’s recognition in Commissioners Court. “There are no words

  A 55-year-old Canton, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew D. DeSarno. Andrew Mark Harris pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine today before U.S. Magistrate

  During the month of February 2018, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit and Texas Department of Public Safety initiated an investigation into Kevin Ramon Erwin. During the investigation, investigators developed probable cause which led them to believe Erwin was manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance, namely Heroin and Methamphetamine. A lengthy investigation led

  On August 19, 2019 at 4:09 p.m. Smith County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a Suspicious Person call at 12108 IH 20 West near Jim Hogg Rd.  The caller advised that a body was located in a wooded area near this location.  Upon arrival, Deputies were escorted into the wooded area where a partially