{"id":1453618,"date":"2025-10-29T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1453618"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:22:41","slug":"gov-abbott-announces-new-upshur-county-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1453618","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott announces new Upshur County DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-977352\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/abbott-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8211; Texas Governor Gregg Abbott needed less than a month to secure a replacement for the retired Billy Byrd, as Billy Wallace of Gladewater will now be serving as the Upshur Criminal District Attorney. Our news partners at KETK report that he currently holds the title of first assistant for the Upshur County Criminal District Attorney\u2019s Office. Wallace will start his tenure as district attorney on Nov. 1, and his term will end on Dec. 31, 2026, or upon the election of a duly appointed successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8211; Texas Governor Gregg Abbott needed less than a month to secure a replacement for the retired Billy Byrd, as Billy Wallace of Gladewater will now be serving as the Upshur Criminal District Attorney. Our news partners at KETK report that he currently holds the title of first assistant for the Upshur County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1453618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov. Abbott announces new Upshur County DA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1453775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/abbott-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 07:31:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/abbott-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453618"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454494,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453618\/revisions\/1454494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}