By J.J. Smith. A Royse City woman was killed Saturday evening when a sudden downpour of rain in Denison TX caused a pick-up truck to hydroplane on Highway 75 and veer across the median into a car driven by her husband. The woman passenger, 72-year-old Anne Marie Theken, died from the impact. She was pronounced [...]
By J.J. Smith. A memorial service will be held today for triplet boys born July 25 and 26 to Brett and Tabitha (Jacobs) Lebo of Rockwall. Miles Abraham Lebo was born July 25,at while Cash Isaac Lebo and Jackson Noah Lebo were born July 26. All three boys passed away July 26. The cause of [...]
Well-known Heath resident Dr. Hylan Lyon passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack July 20. He was 74. A member of the Rockwall County Republican Men’s Club and Park Cities Rotary Club, he served as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He is [...]
By J.J. Smith. Funeral services for 2008 Rockwall-Heath High School graduate Jerod Heath Osborne, will be this Friday at 2 pm at Lake Pointe Church, 701 I-30 in Rockwall. Interment will follow in Rest Haven Memorial Park. Spc. Osborne was killed July 5 by a roadside bomb while serving as a U.S. Army combat medic [...]
By J.J. Smith. A motorcade bearing the casket of 2008 Rockwall-Heath graduate Spc. Jerod Heath Osborne will be coming through Royse City and then Fate today on Highway 66 between about 2:30 and 3:30 pm on the way to Rest Haven Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Rockwall. Hundreds of Royse City and Rockwall County [...]
By J.J. Smith. A 2008 Rockwall-Heath High School graduate and active duty U.S. Army combat medic was killed in Afghanistan July 5. Jerod Heath Osborne, 20, the son of Sharon Grillett and husband Gary of Rockwall and Allan G. Osborne, III, of Caddo Mills, had just been sent to Afghanistan March 26 after a visit [...]
By J.J. Smith. A Dallas man went missing during a birthday party celebration and his body was found in Lake Ray Hubbard at about 12:30 am Sunday. Dallas police said 22-year-old Guillermo Andrade was rushed by Garland Fire Department paramedics to Texas Health Rockwall Hospital, but he was pronounced dead. No other details are known [...]
By J.J. Smith. The City of Rowlett and the Pray Rowlett fellowship of ministers will host a prayer vigil in honor of the late Judge Belinda Loveland and other victims of domestic violence this Friday at 7:30 pm on the front steps of the Rowlett Chamber of Commerce building, 3910 Main St. There have been [...]
By J.J. Smith. Rockwall County has been the third fastest-growing county in the nation during the past decade. According to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau quoted in CNN Money magazine, the County grew 89 percent, behind only Chicago suburb Kendall County (nearly 100%) and Phoenix suburb Pinal County (90%). Rockwall was followed [...]
CBS 11-TV News video. Fund-raising helped save the Boys and Girls Club of Rockwall, which was in danger of closing last November because of lack of funding. See Video