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Former DA’s trial cancelled, no new date set

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Less than a month before her trial for theft of property former 97th district attorney Casey Hall received an amended indictment changing it to theft by a public servant and adding a count of misappropriation of fiduciary/financial property.
The court’s legal filing also reported the pending March 17 jury trial was cancelled, but as of Tuesday no new date was stated. After the new indictment a motion was filed for a continuance as the state investigates some possible new allegations.
Hall was indicted last July on a single count of theft of property $2,500-$30,000, a state jail felony, related to a pair of allegations that she allegedly deposited a state voucher for an employee’s salary supplement into her personal account instead of the office account between May 31 and Oct. 4, 2022.
The two deposits were $9,116.97 each, which is $18,233.94. The vouchers were requested from the AG grant funds used for salary supplements in the DA’s office.
The amended indictment was filed on Feb. 11. Theft by a public servant is a third degree felony and misapplication is a state jail felony. A fiduciary includes a trustee, guardian or administrator who handles property he holds as a fiduciary or property of a financial institution in a manner that involves substantial risk of loss to the owner of the property or to the person for whose benefit the property is held.

Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.

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Bowie Council meets June 23

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The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.

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City of Bowie reports heat advisory today

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A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.

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Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area

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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”

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