Hawkins News

The East Texas accent is seen rather than heard in the next exhibit to open at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts.

We added three new faces to the wanted board, including two from Wood County, one from Jacksonville.

Even if President Barack Obama is successful in revamping the health care system to cover the nation's 46 million uninsured, Texas and the rest of the nation still face a shortage of primary-care doctors to treat them.

Real estate editor Steve Brown compiles this list. Sales A Los Angeles investor purchased the 365-unit Greentree apartments in Carrollton.

A $30,000 piece of surveying equipment was taken Wednesday from a work site in Hawkins, according to a report from the Wood County Sheriff's Office.

A 22-year-old Daingerfield man was killed Sunday morning when he was hit by two vehicles, according to a report from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

We've been getting ready for months now, and today it finally happened. At 9:00 a.m., KLTV 7's chief engineer powered down our old analog signal.

The owner of an abandoned tire recycling facility in Hawkins that caught fire last week turned himself in Tuesday to Wood County authorities.

Wood County authorities have arrested and charged a man with illegal dumping in connection with the Hawkins tire fire last week.

Gray skies are clearing up over Hawkins as the assault on the massive tire fire continues.

HAWKINS, Texas - A stubborn fire at an abandoned tire dump in the small East Texas town of Hawkins is finally out.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer HAWKINS - Officials are meeting in Hawkins this morning to put a plan of action into motion following the outbreak of a huge tire fire that has blanketed much of the city in thick smoke.

Fire crews this morning battled for a second day a stubborn fire at an abandoned tire dump that has forced evacuation of the small East Texas town of Hawkins.

COSHANDRA DILLARD Staff Writer HAWKINS -- Area firefighters worked through the night Tuesday to extinguish a massive tire fire ablaze off Farm to Market 14.

Fire trucks trying to get close to the fire, had more problems than the tires though.

Hawkins city officials and state officials say they still have not heard from the owners of Foster & Sons Scrap Tire Service, the company that allegedly collected the tires in Hawkins.

HAWKINS, Texas a ' Fire crews are keeping up their battle against a fire at an abandoned tire dump that has forced residents of a small Texas town to leave their homes.

Toxic black smoke from thousands of burning tires closed schools and colleges near Hawkins on Tuesday and prompted an evacuation order from city officials.

A massive fire of more than 20,000 burning tires has forced an evcaution of the town of Hawkins, Texas, just north of Tyler.

Toxic smoke from a massive tire fire has caused Hawkins officials to evacuate residents and close schools.