East Texas News

UT Tyler announced Wednesday a bill to authorize the creation of a pharmacy school has passed the Texas Senate and House.

It's easy to get caught up in the celebration when another business moves its financial, physical and creative capital to Texas.

Migration was hot and heavy last night, starting with trans-Gulf arrivals to the Texas and Louisiana coasts yesterday afternoon.

The East Texas Food Bank was selected as one of 40 winning Feeding America food banks to receive a $45,000 grant from Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together initiative, where people visited a website to vote for the grant winners.

Justin Bieber , look out. An army man is encroaching on your territory. Colin Gray, a 20-year-old East Texan enlisted in the Army and serving in Afghanistan, has asked Selena Gomez to accompany him as his date to the Army Ball.

Longview Code Agents arrested 34-year-old Amos Simmons, 38-year-old Stasha Benfield and 37-year-old James Peery, after they found methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and weapons inside a home in the 400-block of Gayle Street on Thursday.

Asbury United Methodist Church, Allentown, was the site of an Eagle Court of Honor on April 28 for five members of Boy Scout Troop 431 of East Texas.

The West High School girl's softball team visited East Texas on Friday evening vying for a regional championship, just weeks after a fertilizer blew up in their home town, destroying numerous homes and businesses and killing 14 people.

Country music legend George Jones' final standing ovation, after a career filled with them, was at the the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

At first glance, Collin Gray is your typical 20-year-old East Texan. But that's where you would be wrong.

I sincerely hope the Legislature will enact SB 1327. This bill deals with toll road construction projects and public utilities, which operate in the right-of-way. Currently, any cost of moving public utilities is shared between the utility and the toll road project.

"The other side is too loud and it's time that we stand up. We have to say something.

A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago.Richard Cobb, 29, didn't deny using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in an East Texas field where two women also were shot and one was raped.

Tyler's Alaina Johnson won the NCAA national championship in the uneven bars for the University of Florida on Sunday.