Gideon Robinson, 17, earned an award from Sheriff Colton Havard after saving a mother and her children from a smoke-filled vehicle on July 7, 2025. Read More

The deputy spotted the pickup truck shortly after 5 p.m. on Highway 190 West and initiated a traffic stop with the Newton Police Department near County Road 4002, between Newton and Bon Wier ... old ... Read More

Newton County Sheriff Colton Havard says an investigation is underway after Howdy's Liquor Store was robbed at gunpoint on Monday night. The business is located on Highway 190 just inside ... Read More

The Bon Wier, Newton, and Trout Creek Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the raging fire at about 6:30 a.m. Monday at the home on Highway 190. The home was already engulfed in flames when they ... Read More

A driver was injured in an early Tuesday evening single-vehicle crash. It happened shortly before 6:00 in Newton on Highway 87, about a half-mile north of Highway 190. The man was driving a Chevrolet ... Read More

It happened on Highway 190, just east of the Jasper-Newton County line. Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Shana Clark says at about 5:00, 47-year-old Dustin Crawford was riding a 2008 Honda ... Read More