Bridgeport News

Ralphie may be a small dog, but his owner, Karen White, knows that he plays a big role in improving the spirits of nursing home patients and staff at the Good Samaritan Society's Denton Village.

Len Williams of Breckenridge, Tx, helps rig the harnessses for Jay Patton's wagon as the wagon train prepares to hit the road for the last day of a week-long journey from Jacksboro to Fort Worth for the Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering on Thursday, October 22, 2009.

A crazy chase involving cattle, a tractor trailer and a high-powered rifle went through Wise County Sunday evening.

Lee Van Schulte 'LV' passed from this life on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. He was born on June 6, 1929 in Corsicana, TX to Walter R. Schulte and Jeanette O. Schulte.

Mother lode of fun You don't have to be a coal miner or coal miner's daughter to enjoy the annual Coal Miners' Heritage Festival in downtown Bridgeport on Oct.

Friends left flowers, pictures, teddy bears and messages at a makeshift memorial Wednesday inside a Texas high school after one teenager died and another was injured when a storefront awning fell on them.

City inspectors in this Wise County town were trying Wednesday to determine what caused a metal awning to topple on two teenage girls Tuesday, killing one of them and injuring the other.

A Bridgeport High School cheerleader is dead and her friend was seriously hurt Tuesday afternoon in a freak accident involving a business awning.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene of a small plane crash near Bridgeport in Wise County late Friday morning.

A plane has crashed southwest of Bridgeport in an incorporated area of Wise County.

Two people were taken to the hospital Friday after an ultralight aircraft crashed in a vacant field in Wise County, according to authorities.

WISE COUNTY a 'Two people were injured Friday when a small plane crashed near a municipal airport in Bridgeport in Wise County.

A woman who parked her gold 2001 Toyota Corolla and went into a business in the 1600 block of South Oak Avenue around 7 p.m. Monday returned a few minutes later to find it missing, police said.

Area motorcycle enthusiasts have an opportunity to win a custom chopper while helping out a good cause.

More schools and school districts are closed this week in an effort to head off the spread of swine flu.