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Payne Springs Fire Rescue responds to car fire

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Courtesy Photo/Payne Springs Fire Rescue
Volunteers of Payne Springs Fire Rescue (PSFR) are alerted to a vehicle fire on Clear Creek Road during the morning hours of April 4. PSFR Engine 1 and Tanker 1 arrived to find a car that had been burning for sometime with no one in the area. The engine crew extinguished the fire and returned to service. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating this incident. 

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Totality Awesome

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Monitor Photo/Carla Gray
In Gun Barrel City, Astronomers from Upice Observatory in the Czech Republic set up equipment to view and photograph the Total Solar Eclipse April 8. They are taking pictures of the corona (suns atmosphere) and watching the eclipse with equipment that is filtered from the suns harmful rays.MabankMonitor Photo/Janice Grubbs-Vincik

Randall Mays removed from death row

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HENDERSON COUNTY–Randall Mays, 64 who was convicted to death in the killing of Henderson County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Tony Ogburn and Paul Habelt in 2008, was removed from death row March 27, by a Texas Appeals Court.   
Mays sentence was reformed to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after the court applied a current legal definition of intellectual disability.