Titus County, TX

The Titus County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a wanted fugitive, 57-year-old Bobby Dean Sargent. Titus County Sheriff’s Investigators have obtained felony warrants for Sargent’s arrest related to a recent residential burglary in the Monticello Community of Titus County. Sargent has ties to Titus, Wood, Franklin, and Camp Counties. Sargent may be living in a giant blue dome tent.

Titus Regional Medical Center recently earned yet another national “A” rating for safe hospital practices. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade looks at numerous safety standards for hospitals across the country, including but not limited to surgery safety, discharge communication, and infection rates. This spring, TRMC performed above average for hospitals in a majority of categories. The Leapfrog…

Titus County Sheriff ’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating wanted fugitive, 57-year-old Bobby Dean Sargent. Titus County Sheriff ’s Investigators have obtained felony warrants for Sargent’s arrest related to a recent residential burglary in the Monticello Community of Titus County. Sargent has ties to Titus, Wood, Franklin, and Camp Counties. Sargent may be camped out in a…

Titus County Deputies arrested 24-year-old Lizandro Ponce-Maradiaga of Millers Cove for Assault of a Pregnant Person, Prohibited Substance in a Correctional Facility, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Terroristic Threat, and Resisting Arrest. He remains in the Titus County Jail on a $33,500 bond. Deputies arrested 26-year-old Dylan Ryle of Talco...

Majority of accidents caused significant injury to children this year. Titus Regional EMS has now released up-to-date statistics on ATV/UTV accidents in Titus County occurring this year, and parents are being urged to practice safety measures going forward. According to Titus Regional EMS, 64% of ATV/ UTV accidents this year have caused significant injury to those involved, including bone fractures, internal organ injuries, head injuries, and more. Of the accidents…

Titus Regional Medical Center (TRMC) along with the Pediatric Clinic, LLC has the privilege of honoring Dr. Marc Kimball as he has announced his retirement after 30 years of dedicated service to the children of Northeast Texas. While his patients, coworkers, partners, and our entire community will be sad to see him retire, we rejoice with him and his family as they enter a new phase of life…

Titus Regional Medical Center’s EMS team recently taught SWEPCO employees how to control life-threatening bleeding with a Stop the Bleed course. Seventeen SWEPCO employees participated in the two-hour class, and SWEPCO was given a free trauma kit containing supplies necessary to control bleeding in the field. A bleeding injury can happen anywhere, and according to leaders from the American…

Titus County arrested 33-year-old Brittany Ellen Friedman of Mt. Pleasant on drug and vehicle theft charges and some Capias and Failure to Appear warrants. She remains in the Titus County Jail.

The annual Happy Birthday USA event put on by the Mount Pleasant-Titus County Chamber of Commerce and Bo Rester State Farm is slated for June 25 this year. The free celebration will begin at 2 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. This year’s event will once again be held at Camp Langston RV Resort. Activities at the event this year include live music, a car show, turtle races, a cornhole tournament, kid…

Thursday morning at 8:00, if you heard a jarring boom, it was a demolition crew at the old power plant on FM 127 at Montecillo. Residents hearing the explosion came as far away as Talco in Titus County. According to Fire Chief Larry McRae, they did not publicize the event because they didn’t want a crowd around the old TUGO plant.

A retired cross-country truck driver in Texas who was charged last month in a 1992 homicide has also now been charged with killing a woman in Southern California nearly 30 years ago, authorities say. Douglas Thomas was charged with the cold case murder of Sherri Herrera, a 30-year-old mother of four whose body was dumped on a highway ramp in 1993.

A retired truck driver is facing a murder charge in connection with the 1993 slaying of a woman whose body was dumped along a California desert highway. Douglas Thomas, 67, is accused in the killing of 30-year-old Sherri Herrera, the Riverside County District Attorney's Office said in a statement released this week.

Investigators in Texas and California used DNA evidence to link a retired McLennan County truck driver to two killings in the 1990s in East Texas and California, a search warrant affidavit says. Douglas Thomas, 67, was charged with murder Friday in the 1993 death of Sherri Herrera, whose body was...

The annual Happy Birthday USA event put on by the Mount Pleasant-Titus County Chamber of Commerce and Bo Rester State Farm is slated for June 25 this year. The free celebration will begin at 2 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. Activities at the event this year include live music, a car show, turtle races, a cornhole tournament, kid giveaways, water slides, train rides, a mechanical bull, Gelly Ball, and…

A man arrested in Texas last month for a 1992 homicide has just been charged with another murder of a woman found dead in California nearly 30 years ago. Douglas Thomas, 67, was charged on Friday in California for the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera, 30, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. DNA allegedly helped connect Thomas to Herrera’s murder, as well as the 1992 murder of Shanda Denise Hayes, for which Thomas is currently awaiting trial in Texas, according to CBS Waco affiliate KWTX.

A retired truck driver from Texas has been charged with killing a woman whose body was found along a freeway onramp in a Southern California desert nearly 30 years ago, prosecutors said. Cold-case investigators used advances in DNA technology to link Douglas Thomas to the 1993 killing of Sherri Herrera,...

On Saturday, the Mount Pleasant-Titus County Chamber of Commerce held its annual golf tournament at the Mount Pleasant Country Club. The event was presented by Pilgrim’s of Mount Pleasant and Pittsburg and was sponsored by Brookshire’s, Republic Services, Northeast Texas Credit Union, Elliott Auto Group, Titus Regional Medical Center, Diamond C Trailers, Guaranty Bank & Trust, Chambers Home…

The Titus County Sheriff’s Office wants Krystal Nicole Collier for the Forgery of a Financial Instrument. If you know the whereabouts of Ms. Collier, please contact the Northeast Texas Area Crime Stoppers at (903) 577-TIPS (8477). Remember, all we want is your tip information and never your name. If your tip information leads to an arrest, you could receive a CASH REWARD of UP TO $1,000.00.

A retired Texas truck driver has been charged with the 1993 murder of a 30-year-old mother of four whose body was found on an onramp to a California freeway, authorities said. Douglas Thomas, 67, is already jailed on a murder charge for the 1992 killing of a Texas woman whose body found in a rest area near an interstate, Texas authorities said.

The man was previously arrested in connection with a 1992 killing in Texas, prosecutors said.