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Major breakthrough in the 1994 murder of Jackie Hogue

On Thursday, the Potter County Sheriff's Office served an arrest warrant in the February 1994 homicide of Jackie Hogue. Hogue's mom found her body in a Bishop Hills home.

The Potter County Sheriff's Office released the following statement:

On or about August 14, 2017 it was decided that the Potter Randall Special Crimes Unit would disband. The Potter County Sheriff’s Office would now be investigating their own homicides and suspicious deaths. This would include any unsolved cold cases that had been originally assigned to the Potter Randall Special Crimes.

These open and unsolved cases were transferred back to the Potter County Sheriff’s Office along with all the evidence that could be obtained. The Potter County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division detectives began working on these cases and getting them in order. One cold case from February 1994, the Jackie Hogue Homicide stood out and our guys began to investigate the case.

On or about July 12, 2018 Cold Justi…

Lynn County Sheriff Abraham Vega passes away from COVID-19

After being hospitalized with COVID-19, Lynn County Sheriff Abraham Vega has died, according to the Texas Chief Deputies Association.
Earlier this week, Sheriff Vega was airlifted to receive treatment in Dallas after spending about two weeks hospitalized in Lubbock where he was on a ventilator for nine days. The Chief Deputies Association reported Friday morning that the treatment appeared to be working and that he was improving.
Vega served as the president of the Chief Deputies Association from 2015-2016. He won the Republican primary on his way toward re-election as Lynn County Sheriff in March.
Sheriff Vega’s wife Rachel did reach out and say that while her husband was at Covenant during his fight with COVID-19, he had an amazing team of doctors and nurses who tried every option to help him.
She says they truly cared and they are so grateful.

Texas GOP legislators want Abbott to limit governor's emergency powers

A group of 11 conservative lawmakers in Texas want Gov. Greg Abbott, a fellow Republican, to help scale back a state law that gives him the authority to close businesses and require masks in public.
Under the Texas Disaster Act of 1975, the governor is given broad powers during an emergency. As a result, many of the statewide orders and mandates have been issued almost unilaterally by Abbott, creating tension with conservatives.
"Although many legislators, and even our own caucus, have criticized some of the actions you have taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, we know that you have undertaken each and every decision with painstaking care," the Texas Freedom Caucus wrote Thursday in a letter to Abbott.
"Regardless, the fact remains that the effects of these orders have caused families across the state to take massive financial hits, and in many cases caused businesses to permanently close their doors," they added.
Texas was one of the first states to begin to reopen its…

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