NEWS
TxDOT updates area on road conditions
Treating highways with deicer and traction products, TxDOT crews were out all night in the nine counties serviced (Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Young). Ice covered with sleet blankets the district right now. We have had numerous slide off and minor wrecks. Speed has been the major contributor to the crashes.
Highways reporting very slick conditions include I-35 in Cooke county and US 277/82 in Baylor county.
Our crews will stay on 12 hour around the clock shifts until the storm ends. We are putting down deicing liquids like Brine as well as traction materials on bridges and trouble spots.
TxDOT is extremely concerned with the potential for worse conditions with temperatures forecast to steay well below freezing today.
Drivers are urged to follow these precautions:
- Reduce speed. Speed limits are based on normal road and weather conditions, not winter road conditions. Do not use cruise control.
- • Maintain at least three times the normal following distance on snow or ice.
- • Watch carefully for personnel and equipment treating roadways, and stay at least 200 feet back from road crews.
- • Use extra caution on bridges, ramps, overpasses and shaded areas as they tend to freeze first.
- • Carry extra warm coats, gloves and boots in case you get stranded.
- • If you start to slide, ease off the gas pedal or brakes. Steer into the direction of the skid until you feel you have regained traction, and then straighten your vehicle.
Motorists can obtain travel information by visiting drivetexas.org or calling (800) 452-9292. Road conditions and traffic updates are available on Facebook, www.facebook.com/txdot and Twitter, www.twitter.com/txdotwf .
Information provided by the Texas Department of Transportation at 8:15 a.m. Monday.
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.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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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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