Upshur County has 79 registered sex offenders living here. Find out who they are, and where they are.
The Texas Department of Public Safety keeps an updated list of registered sex offenders online.
A search for offenders living in Upshur County reveals 79 results, scattered broadly across the county.
Citizens can search for other counties and zip codes here.
How did Upshur vote in relation to the rest of the state?
According to tally's by the Texas Secretary of State, Upshur County didn't turn out as heavily as the rest of the state, and when we did, we trended more Republican than Texas as a whole.
30.45% of registered Upshur voters turned out this year, compared to 59.32% of the state. in 2004, Upshur turned out 57.43%.
In most all races, our county trended about 10-15% higher toward the Republican ticket than statewide voters.President of the United States Party Upshur Votes Upshur % Statewide % John McCain REP 5871 73.10% 55.0% Barack Obama DEM 2106 26.22% 43.80% US Senate John Cornyn REP 5602 70.79% 54.80% Rick Noriega DEM 2180 27.54% 42.90% Yvonne Schick LIB 131 1.65% 2.90% US Representative District 1 Louie Gohmert REP 6120 86.72% 87.70% Roger Owen IND 937 13.27% 12.3% Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams REP 4811 62.86% 52.10% Mark Thompson DEM 2559 33.43% 44.40% David Floyd LIB 283 3.69%% 3.50% Chief Justice, Supreme Court Wallace Jefferson REP 4810 63.22% 53.07% Jim Jordan DEM 2593 34.08% 43.83% Tim Oxford LIB 205 2.69% 3.10% Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7 Dale Wainwright REP 4653 61.21% 51.08% Sam Houston DEM 2715 35.71% 45.90% David Smith LIB 233 3.06% 3.02% Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8 Phil Johnson REP 5030 66.49% 52.29% Linda Yanez DEM 2281 30.15% 44.67% Drew Shirley LIB 254 3.35% 3.04% Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 Tom Price REP 4801 63.51% 51.63% Susan Strawn DEM 2565 33.93% 45.5% Matthew Eilers LIB 193 2.55% 2.82% Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 Paul Womack REP 4981 65.96% 52.94% J.R. Molina DEM 2328 30.83% 43.78% Dave Howard LIB 242 3.20% 3.28% Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9 Cathy Cochran REP 55.16 85.38% 81.89% William Strange LIB 944 14.61% 14.11%
Optional County Road System survives.
Gilmer - Results posted on the Upshur County website show the following results:
Sheriff
* Greg Mandreger - 6678
* Anthony Betterton - 8092
County Tax Assessor-Collector
* Vance Lowery - 6600
* Mike Smith - 8201
County Commissioner Precinct # 1
* James Crittenden - 2551
* Curtis Hollis - 1447
County Commissioner Precinct # 3
* Lloyd A. Crabtree - 2214
* James Childress - 1456
Justice of the Peace Precinct # 1
* Wyone Manes - 2374
* Michele Griffith - 1546
County Constable Precinct # 3
* Jerry Kuhn - 2331
* Bill Hardwick - 1238
County Constable Precinct # 4
* Phillip Hill - 1822
* Chris McCauley - 1791
Discontinuing the Optional County Road System in Upshur County
* For - 5499
* Against - 6191
Union Hill ISD School Trustees - Only 3 Positions to be Filled
* Bobbie Mauk - 229
* Loy DeMoss - 178
* James R. Parker - 121
* Twaynia R. Noble - 134
* Chuck Montgomery - 171
* Jerry Rex Tucker - 120
* John W."Pete" Gipson - 231
* Janet Albright - 148
New Diana ISD School Trustee, Position 3
* Kevin Blasingame - 190
* Shari Covin - 477
Louie Gohmert easily defeated Roger Owen, but his biggest fight will be next year in Washington.
Louie Gohmert never broke a sweat this campaign season. Roger Owen trailed him by a large margin the whole race, and never threatened to break the pattern. Gohmert has little cause to celebrate beyond his personal victory, however.
Nationwide, Republicans gave up at least 10 seats to Nancy Pelosi's Democrats. This means Gohmert and party are probably in for a long two year turn in the congressional barrel.
It will also be two years of party convulsions, with republicans seeking leadership, a message that will resonate with a reshaped electorate, and a strategy to stop the bleeding that started in 2002.
While Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Pelosi all made bi-partisan overtures in their speeches tonight, early budget and energy battles next year will no doubt strain the outreach.
Gohmert's party also faces fund raising woes. The RNC nearly bankrupted itself trying to hold onto a fillibuster capability in the senate. Their weakened political power, coupled with hard financial times ahead for donors, will probably mean lighter war chests in two years.
The Democrats, enjoying near total control over the halls of power in the Capital, will find their donors eager to pony up, hoping for a piece of the massive programs Obama and the Democrats have promised.
US Senate Race Less Competitive Than Democrats hoped
John Cornyn coasted to a surprisingly lopsided win tonight to reclaim his US Senate seat, winning over Houstonian Rick Noriega 56% to 41%.
Despite campaign appearances by both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Noriega never could raise the funds needed to counter Cornyn's considerable war chest of 18 million dollars.
In Texas, the Republican brand doesn't mean death, and Cornyn had succeeded in distancing himself from the Bush White House enough to render Noriega's attempts to link him with the unpopular president ineffective.
Republicans lost some crucial seats in the Senate this cycle, and Cornyn looks to increase his stature in the minority party this coming term. Rumors are also floating that he might consider a presidential bid in 2012.
"Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain.These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face." Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education. There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
World watches as U.S. makes history
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wrote the second paragraph of his on chapter in American history tonight, becoming the first black man elected President.
It was feared Election Day would be marred by polling misconduct, legal challenges, and perhaps even violence. None of that was apparent, with many poll workers and election officials giving credit to early voting turn-out.
As polls closed on the East Coast, the count started as expected, with the first state called being Kentucky, going to McCain. Vermont fell next, going in Obama's column.
The first battleground state, Virginia was projected to go to Obama. Pennsylvania fell to the Illinois senator next, and things began to look bad for McCain.
Florida, and it's hotly contested 27 votes, was too close to call until later in the evening. By the time it tallied to Obama, the writing was on the wall.
The Great Lakes states next went to Obama, including Ohio with 20 electoral votes. Soon after that, McCain insiders began admitting there was no combination left that would net the needed 270 electoral votes.
Even though the heartland states from Texas through North Dakota went to McCain, he lost both swing states of New Mexico and Colorado.
At 10:00 pm CST, just as the polls closed on the West Coast, the major networks all projected Obama to win California, giving him well over the 270 electoral needed to lock up the election.
Obama might have won the electoral college in a landslide, but the popular vote was far closer, where he took 52%, while McCain gathered 47%.
By 10:45, John McCain, the Republican candidate, had conceded the win to Obama with a telephone call and a gracious speech. McCain complimented Obama on the race he ran, and pledged to work with him, saying
McCain thanked his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his campaign staff, and all of his supporters. The Arizona senator said his campaign had been the great honor of his life, and called for all Americans to work together to solve the problems we face:I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Soon after, President-Elect Obama took the stage at a huge victory party in Chicago. His speech was complimentary to McCain and palin, and conciliatory to the country, at on point pledging to those who did not vote for him:"I hear your voice, I need your help, and I will be your President, too".
In soaring rhetoric rivaling that of Ronald Reagan, Obama acknowledged the challenge of solving two wars, the economic crisis and difficulties around the globe, saying:
Time and again, he reiterated his campaign chant of "Yes, we can" calling it a time honored American creed. The jubilant crowd chanted it back to him at every occurrence.
As he concluded his speech, he was joined on stage by his wife, Michelle Obama, and running mate Joe Biden and his wife.
Meanwhile in the nation's capital, a crowd of about two hundred Georgetown University students gathered outside the White House, waving Obama campaign signs, also chanting the familiar "Yes, we can"!
Their mood was less conciliatory, however, as there were a few anti-Bush signs, one reading 'Why wait, evict Bush now'.
Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 11th cancelled. No rescheduled date posted.
Gilmer - The city's website has a cancellation notice posted.
Hemphill takes first, Eagles place second among a crowded field of military bands
Nacogdoches - The Eagles marching band traveled Saturday to Homer Bryce Stadium at Steven F. Austin University to participate in the yearly National Association of Military Marching Bands competition.
After an all day event highlighting fifteen 2A - 5A bands, the Eagles marched home with a second place 2A finish.
Competing bands included:
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