NACOGDOCHES \u2014 There’s a laundry list of charges against a Nacogdoches couple. Jodie Strahan, 26, and Norman McDonald, 47, are charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, and abandonment of a child. Nacogdoches police tell KETK the couple dropped a baby off Tuesday night in the Melrose community. Straham claimed she couldn\u2019t raise the baby any longer, so she handed the baby over to a resident there. The baby was then taken to a local hospital. Authorities eventually tracked down the couple and arrested them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NACOGDOCHES \u2014 There’s a laundry list of charges against a Nacogdoches couple. Jodie Strahan, 26, and Norman McDonald, 47, are charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, and abandonment of a child. Nacogdoches police tell KETK the couple dropped a baby off Tuesday night in the Melrose community. Straham claimed she couldn\u2019t raise the … Continue reading Couple Faces Charges Including Child Abandonment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 22:34:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256718","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256907,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256718\/revisions\/256907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}