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Operation Kindness and North Texas Chapter of Pets for Vets trained Hazel to be a companion for North Texas Marine Steven Osteen.

In honor of Veterans Day: Operation Kindness’ Hazel helps Glenn Heights Marine

GLENN HEIGHTS — Operation Kindness, the original and largest no-kill animal shelter in North Texas, and the North Texas Chapter of Pets for Vets are training shelter dogs to become companions for North Texas military veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress issues.

Congressman Joe Barton.

Joe Barton Family Foundation accepting grant applications

ARLINGTON — The Joe Barton Family Foundation announced that it will be accepting grant applications from non-profit organizations through November 30, 2015.

From left, Ellis County Sheriff Explorer Matthew Aguilar, Lt. Gage Adams and Sgt. Ross McRee.

ECSO Explorers take third in Plano X Explorer Competition

ELLIS COUNTY — Three members of the Ellis County Sheriff’s Exploring Program competed in the annual Plano X Explorer Competition on Oct. 24-25, bringing home a third place overall trophy.

Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown.

COLUMN: Help us give children a brighter holiday season

This Monday kicks off the sixth annual Ellis County Employee Toy Drive and we hope you’ll join us in helping the kids in our local children’s homes enjoy a brighter holiday season.

We’ve challenged ourselves to make this the best Toy Drive ever, so your Sheriff’s Office has teamed up with the local DPS office to take the lead on ensuring every child at both the Texas Baptist Home and the Presbyterian Children’s Home has at least one present under the Christmas tree. In previous years, we had alternated which home was the beneficiary. Last year, the county toy drive benefitted the Presbyterian home and we helped Trooper James Colunga and the DPS with an effort at the Baptist home.

As of this Monday afternoon, we’ll have donation boxes set up at all of these county offices: Ellis County Sheriff’s Office (main station), all four county precinct barns, Adult Probation Services, Ellis County Clerk’s Office, Ellis County District Clerk’s Office, Ellis County Tax Office, and Constable Pct. 1, 2 and 3 offices.

Steven Lass is pictured here in a May 2014 sex offender annual verification photo relating to a 2006 conviction of felony indecency with a child. Lass was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday, November 2, 2014 after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.

Midlothian PD and FBI put convicted sex offender away for child porn possession

DALLAS — An Arlington, Texas, man, Steven Lass, 33, a registered sex offender, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 15 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of possession of child pornography

Junior Aguilar was arrested by Red Oak PD on Sunday, November 1, 2015 following a short foot pursuit after he bailed out of a moving vehicle leaving a female passenger and two-year-old girl in the moving vehicle without a driver.

Red Oak PD arrest man after short foot pursuit

RED OAK — On Sunday, November 1, at approximately 1:47 p.m., Officer Palmer activated his emergency lights on his patrol vehicle to stop the driver of a white Lincoln Towncar for a traffic offense.

Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown.

COLUMN: More about our jail operations

Not many organizations are subject to an unannounced annual inspection by another authority, but a county jail is. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards sets the rules we operate by and has the final say over our county jail, Wayne McCollum Detention Center.

LETTER: On Dr. Gilbreath’s passing

My husband and I were informed of the death of Dr. Michael Gilbreath last Thursday. We were devastated.