CONROE, TX — Residents and visitors came out by the thousands Monday in Conroe, as the city celebrates its new veteran’s memorial park. “This shows the sacrifice. This is for the fallen for Montgomery County,” said Edwards. Retired Montgomery County Judge Jimmie Edwards lost both his legs during the Vietnam… click here to view the...
An FBI agent who shot another passenger during a confrontation aboard a moving subway train just outside Washington D.C. was indicted on attempted murder and other counts, according Maryland court records unsealed Tuesday morning. Eduardo Valdivia, 37, was also charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and use of a firearm… click here to view the...
At 2:20 am Montgomery County dispatchers received a call for a crash at SH 105 East and Willis Waukegan Road. Units arrived to find a Ford truck had struck a tree. The driver was gone. A short time later a red pickup almost rear-ended a Montgomery County Deputy on SH 105 East just east near...
Just after 6 pm Monday evening the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office received a call for a shooting on Millcreek Drive just off FM1488 east of the Magnolia city limits. When they arrived they found Veronico Montes Trujillo, age 64 shot once in the head in his Toyota Tundra pickup as it sat at the front...
It has been all hands on deck. Montgomery County Precinct 1 Lake Patrol and Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Wardens have worked all weekend on Lake Conroe to keep it safe. They have done multiple boat inspections, made several rescue calls all of which resulted in no or minor injuries. click here to view the...
This afternoon Walker County began a pursuit of a stolen vehicle southbound on I-45 at speeds over 100 miles per hour. Montgomery County and DPS joined in in Willis. The vehicle continued south to Windsor Lakes where the suspects exited the freeway across the median, turned on Windsor Lakes, and vanished into the woods. Montgomery...
In 2017 Jimmy Edwards, a disabled Veteran from Conroe had a dream. Weekly he and others would come into Jor’s Italian Restaurant, sit at the bar and draw things on paper. This went of for months and finally got Joe’s owner Joe Haiti curious enough to ask what they were doing. Jimmy Edwards said he...
Many questioned Judge Jimmie C. Edwards III wanting to put Montgomery County’s new Veteran’s Memorial Park in what they considered “a ditch” at Texas 105 and Interstate 45 in Conroe. But that’s exactly where Edwards, a Marine, Vietnam veteran, former county judge and former state representative, wanted it to be…. click here to view the...
Many questioned Judge Jimmie C. Edwards III wanting to put Montgomery County’s new Veteran’s Memorial Park in what they considered “a ditch” at Texas 105 and Interstate 45 in Conroe. But that’s exactly where Edwards, a U.S. Marine, Vietnam veteran, former County Judge and former State Representative, wanted it to… click here to view the...
A federal district court has ruled that a Texas judge’s practice of having a chaplain open court sessions with prayer violates the Constitution. Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace in Montgomery County, Texas, created a chaplaincy program in 2014, allowing volunteer chaplains to “assist the Court system and Law Enforcement with grieving families...