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The Courier began operations in 1890 under the name The Crockett Weekly Courier. The newspaper was established by W. B. Page under publisher Giles M. Haltom. In 1958, the Courier merged with the Crockett Democrat to form the Courier Democrat. In 1960, the paper became the Houston County Courier. [4]
Crockett is a city and the county seat of Houston County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 6,332. [ 4 ] Houston County is the oldest county and Crockett the fifth-oldest city in Texas.
Rodgers was shot multiple times in the chest around 10 p.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of Crockett Street. The shooting, which police resulted from a fight between him and Palmer, sent the area ...
Austonio Baptist Church off Texas State Highway 21 in Houston County. Eastham Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men, is located in an unincorporated area in the county. [13] The Crockett State School, a Texas Youth Commission juvenile correctional facility for boys, was located in Crockett. [14] but was closed on August 31 ...
Amy Slaton of '1,000-Lb. Sisters' pleads guilty to drug charges stemming from her September arrest at a Tennessee zoo. In the deal, she avoids further jail time.
On March 10, Sade Crockett headed to Fifth-Third Bank in Chicago with her 82-year-old relative, Enoch Graves, who was buying her a car as a birthday gift, according to a lawsuit filed Oct. 13 in ...
Starting in 1998, Lockhart has run an annual turkey giveaway program in his hometown of Crockett. [5] In 2009, Lockhart and eight others were indicted on federal charges of organizing a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme in the Dallas, Texas, area. In late 2012, Lockhart was convicted and sentenced to 54 months in prison for the fraud. [6]
Houston County and Crockett were both established in 1837. The first version of courthouse was a log cabin built the following year on the square, which was replaced by a more permanent brick building in 1851. This second courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1865, also burning most of the county's records.