Jefferson County

Evaluation ordered for freed accused murderer

Millet Harrison, committed to the Rusk State Hospital for detainment after he was found mentally incompetent to be sentenced for his mother’s murder and released in 2015, has been ordered back to Rusk for further evaluation.

Bank robbed

Common Cents Credit Union on Smith Road in Jefferson County was robbed by an armed bandit on Monday, Jan. 6, according to reports from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.