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Funeral service Thursday for deputy killed in Nocona officer-involved shooting.

A funeral service for Larry Hostetter, the 40-year-old Montague County Sheriff’s deputy who died after an early Monday morning shooting at his home in Nocona, will be at 11 a.m. on Feb. 12 at the Cowboy Church in Henrietta with burial to follow at the church cemetery. Hostetter had been a law officer since 2000 and a deputy with the sheriff’s office since January 2013. He lived at the Nocona residence with his wife Jennifer, along with his four children. Please see his full obituary in today’s Bowie News and at bowienewsonline.com.
At a 9 a.m. Monday press conference, Nocona Police Chief Kent Holcomb and Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham revealed few details of the shooting incident other than to say the Texas Rangers were investigating an “officer-involved shooting.”
Nocona Police were called to the Larry Hostetter home in the 200 block of Jordan Drive shortly after midnight Monday morning on a disturbance call.
The Nocona officer, who was not identified by the chief, shot Hostetter during the incident. Holcomb said the officer has been put on administrative leave per department policy. He was uninjured.
Sheriff Paul Cunningham confirmed Deputy Larry Brian Hostetter, 40, died from injuries he received at his residence. Hostetter was not on duty at the time.
The deputy was pronounced dead at the Nocona General Hospital at 1:03 a.m. His body was transported to the Dallas County Medical Examiner for an autopsy. Pictured:
Monday morning law enforcement vehicles blocked the road leading up to the Larry Hostetter residence on Jordan Drive where Texas Rangers were investigated the shooting death of a deputy. Photo by Barbara Green.
Read the full story in the mid-week News
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Bowie School Board to review superintendent candidate applications

Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
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Bowie News will be 1 day late due to June 19 holiday

Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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Former DA Hall remains in jail

As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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