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16 Apr 2015, 1:12 pm by Patrick
WICHITA COUNTY, TX — Two drivers were taken to the hospital following an accident between a Dr Pepper tractor-trailer and a pickup truck in Wichita County, Texas on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015. [read post]
28 Oct 2012, 9:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas A&M's Public Policy Research Institute has completed and published a two-year study (pdf) analyzing outcomes and costs at Texas' oldest public defender office in Wichita Falls, and the document is filled with fascinating data. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 6:55 am by Michael Lowe
Lowe was able to persuade the Assistant District Attorney in Wichita Falls County to drop the serious Felony charge down to a misdemeanor. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 1:12 am
City and county governments chipped in enough money to keep the task force, which operated out of the Wichita Falls Police Department, running though 2007. [read post]
25 Dec 2020, 10:29 am by Texas Legal News
Wichita County, TX (December 25, 2020) – One person lost their life as a result of a traffic collision on Wednesday evening. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 2:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In Wichita County, reducing the county jail population has resulted in substantial, welcome savings in the county budget. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 12:15 pm
In Kansas, we now cover Shawnee and Wyandotte counties, while in Texas, we now cover Bell County, Wichita County, Jasper County, and Gonzales County. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 9:23 pm by Tom Smith
WICHITA COUNTY, Texas — The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office got quite a surprise Thursday afternoon when a prisoner escaped from a patrol car while the arresting deputy was driving down an interstate highway. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 8:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Higher county property taxes in Wichita Falls are entirely attributable to rising jail costs, the Times Record News reports today; their county commissioners court this week approved an 8% tax hike:County Judge Woody Gossom said the extra revenue will all go to the county jail, with about half the increase dedicated to additional jail staffing and the rest toward the expense of housing inmates out of county due to overcrowding.The 2011 budget contains no… [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 4:20 pm by Carabin Shaw
Tuesday, September 15, 2020:  BAYLOR COUNTY, Texas — Multiple first responder units were on the scene of a crash involving a Greyhound bus and a pick-up truck at U.S. 277 and U.S 183 in Baylor County, Texas on Monday afternoon. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 4:55 am
If the Legislature gives the media a "shield law," said Barry Macha, the Wichita County District Attorney, then "you're going to give them license to run naked through the woods. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 11:53 am
The Wichita Falls Times Record News has a feature about a Clay County Justice of the Peace whose family was the last to live in the jail when he was a Clay County deputy in 1971 ("Justice recalls life in 1890 jail home," Dec. 1):[Jim] Humphrey joined the [Clay County Sheriff's] department in October 1969 as one of only two deputies under Sheriff Thomas Covington. [read post]
24 Apr 2007, 5:29 am
From The Wichita Falls (Texas) Times Record News:Wichita County's Public Defender's office caseloads are stacking up. [read post]
8 May 2013, 10:49 am by Michael Lowe
 Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson Serving as the head prosecutor for the  Georgetown area for several years and later as a Texas District Court Judge, Ken Anderson ran the Office of the District Attorney for Williamson County in the State of Texas. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While I was away, most Texas counties approved their annual budgets and one of the big criminal justice growth areas in recent years for many of them has been rising indigent defense costs - a function of increased state regulation and the fact that the number of new cases has continued to rise (inexplicably) despite crime declining across the state.In 2009, Texas counties spent a total of $186,307,540 on indigent defense, more than a 109% increase from 2001 when… [read post]
15 May 2015, 7:55 am by Michael Lowe
  The 2nd Court of Appeals for the State of Texas serves the counties of Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Hood, Jack, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, Wichita, Wise, and Young. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 4:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department is compiling a report on how students in Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs (JJAEPs) performed on the TAKS test, and though data hasn't been released yet, they leaked a bit of good news to the juvie probation department in Wichita Falls ("JJAEP students pass '11 reading TAKS," April 10):Linda Brooke of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in Austin was preparing a report on the TAKS pass rates of… [read post]