East Texas News

Fire Damages Smith County Jailer’s Home

Dec 7th, 2011 | By

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3 East Texans Share Stories Of Surviving Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7th, 2011 | By

Troup native C.A. Wilkinson, 93, describes himself as a “green” Navy reserve store keeper third class when the Japanese pull-ed off their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Wilkinson, then 23, was assigned to the USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored off Ford Island when a sleepy Sunday morning turned into a torrent of bombs, explosions
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Woman Dies In Custody At Nacogdoches County Jail

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

By CATHRYN KHALILKYTX CBS 19 NACOGDOCHES COUNTY — A Nacogdoches woman died while in the custody of the Nacogdoches County Jail Monday morning, according to the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office. Edwinta Ruth Deckard, 53, died at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital Monday morning after falling ill at the jail late Sunday afternoon, according to Sheriff Thomas Kerss.
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Some Lon Morris College Employees Paid Late

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

Lon Morris does not receive tax money like state schools and relies on tuition and donations. Therefore, McCall said, accounts payable comes in when tuition from government sources arrive. He said December, March, April, May, June, and July are particularly hard months because students may leave for the holidays or summer still owing money from
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Merritt Announces Bid To Seek Former State House Seat

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

Former state Rep. Tommy Merritt announced today in Kilgore he will seek to regain the House District 7 he lost to Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, in 2010. Merritt said the newly redrawn District 7 lines, which now includes Upshur and Gregg counties and no longer included northern Smith County, and various community leaders calling on
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Execution Set For Man In Cherokee County Slaying, Assaults

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

The suspects then drove the three kidnapping victims to a remote pea patch on County Road 2434, just outside of Alto, and shot them, prosecutors contend. Testimony in Cobb’s trial showed that one of the female victims was sexually assaulted, and that Adams and Cobb taunted all three victims before the shootings. The female victims
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College Employees Paid Late For Sixth Time

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

Lon Morris does not receive tax money like state schools and relies on tuition and donations. Therefore, McCall said, accounts payable comes in when tuition from government sources arrive. He said December, March, April, May, June, and July are particularly hard months because students may leave for the holidays or summer still owing money from
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Winter Weather Brings Chill, Plenty Of Rain

Dec 6th, 2011 | By

Adams said the rest of the week should be sunny, but high temperatures should top out in the 40s through Thursday, but will peak in the 50s during the weekend. Lows are going to be just that, hovering right around freezing after Thursday. It’s time, he said, to check the pipes and either wrap or
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Execution Date For Death Row Inmate Set

Dec 5th, 2011 | By

Buenka Adams will be executed on March 8 for the murder of a Rusk man and the shooting of two women in September 2002. The execution date was determined during a hearing today. Adams and co-defendant Richard Cobb, both of Rusk, allegedly entered the BDJ convenience store in Rusk around midnight on Sept. 2, 2002,
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Structure Fire Reported In Jacksonville

Dec 5th, 2011 | By

Jacksonville firefighters are on the scene of a structure fire at 808 Fort Worth Street, TylerPaper.com has learned. Additional details are not yet available, but will be posted as they are received. admin Read the Original Article Here: http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20111205/NEWS01/111209891/-1/RSS01 the feed url