Chandler News

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer CHANDLER -- Howard Taliaferro typically sees four to seven garage sale signs at the intersection of Texas Highway 31 and Farm-to-Market Road 315 on a given Thursday or Friday.

The Westside Fire Department is asking the public to keep a look-out for nearly two dozen of its gloves, which were stolen Monday night.

The Henderson County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to place prescription discount card at different locations in the county.

Services for Carolyn Hale are scheduled for Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 10 a.m. at West Lake Baptist Church.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer ATHENS -- Three Chandler residents have been indicted for injury to a disabled person after their family member was discovered wearing a dirty adult diaper locked in a room covered in human waste.

A witness told police Carnahan kicked someone twice and scratched the person's shoulder during an argument, according to an arrest report.

From time to time, people will bring part or all of their artifacts to me to either look at or identify.

By STEWART SMITH Staff Writer Next Tuesday night, head west out of Tyler to the small, two-lane town of Edom.

Services for David T. Barber, 82, of Flint, will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at the Tyler Memorial chapel with the Rev.

Early vote totals show a keener interest in the Athens Independent School District bond proposal than the one presented in May of 2008.

The Rev. Derwin Walker of First United Methodist Church of Murchison will preach his last sermon at the church at 11 a.m. on Heritage Sunday.

The Greater Lake Palestine Council has scheduled its annual meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday at Wildewood Community Center, Chandler.

The grandfather of that kindergarten student who took a gun on a school bus Thursday is facing charges.

From Staff and Contributed Reports Spring beauty is in the landscape of East Texas as much as anywhere else in the United States, and the Smith County Master Gardeners Association is highlighting the best the region has to offer during the 2009 Master Gardener Home Garden Tour.

A loaded gun was confiscated from a kindergarten student in East Texas while he was on a school bus headed to classes.

An East Texas grandfather is probably going to face charges after his 6-year-old grandson was discovered on the bus to school this morning with a loaded handgun.

The Rogers Children's Theatre reveals all the mysterious secrets of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic in "House of Seven Gables" when it opens at 7 p.m. Friday, April 17.

A few months ago, the mother of David Koresh, who is the former leader of religious sect- Branch Davidian, was killed.

A Henderson County grand jury returned two murder indictments when it convened on April 7. One of those is a capital murder indictment against David Charles Carter, 51, of Athens, who is accused of murdering Jerry O'Neal Stevenson in 2007.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer ATHENS - The woman accused of stabbing to death the mother of infamous Branch Davidian leader David Koresh has been indicted for murder.