Nacogdoches News

Tuesday's city charter election results are now official after the votes were canvassed on Monday by the City Commissioner Shelly Brophy and Nacogdoches Mayor Roger Van Horn.

Officials are looking for a juvenile suspected of being connected with a house fire that occurred in the 100 block of Craven Street at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Nacogdoches Fire Chief Keith Kiplinger.

County commissioners will discuss and possibly set a basic flood elevation level for Lake Nacogdoches Tuesday at the commissioners court meeting.

This story is a legend, one that is familiar to most of us, but how many of us have put it in the context of a romantic novel? How about this plot: Take a young, beautiful Minnesota girl, aspiring to be a model, who travels to New York City to give it a try, changes her mind, when she returns for a holiday to Minnesota, and meets her dream guy, a ...

A man convicted of fatally beating and shooting an East Texas man during a burglary almost 12 years ago was executed Thursday, in a case that gained notoriety because jurors consulted a Bible to justify his death sentence.Khristian Oliver, 32, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:18 p.m.He told his victim's children, who watched through a ...

A Nacogdoches jury has acquitted a former Stephen F. Austin State University football player who was accused of raping a fellow female student during last year's homecoming weekend.

One witness who saw 64-year-old Joe Collins being beaten over the head by a rifle-swinging assailant compared it to someone getting pummeled with an ax or a golf club.

A man was killed on Oct. 31 in a wreck that occurred at 8:35 a.m. on FM 343, according to reports from the Department of Public Safety.

After 17 years in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman, Cassie Williams, a certified Christian counselor, saw the need to offer returning and active service members a helping hand reorienting to civilian life.

A man was taken to the hospital after being shot Friday morning at a residence in the 3800 block of South Fredonia Street, according to Nacogdoches County sheriff Thomas Kerss.

A Nacogdoches man faces a felony arson charge in connection with a fire that damaged an Elizabeth Street residence on Oct.

LUFKIN/NACOGDOCHES/SHEVEPORT - Folks in Lufkin, Nacogdoches and Shreveport are hoping for no more rain after storms absolutely pounded those three cities Thursday.

Motor vehicle wrecks occurred across the county Thursday, one of which resulted in two deaths.

El Dia de los Muertos, or The Day of the Dead, is coming to Nacogdoches next week by way of an Aztec dance group who will be traveling to town from Mexico City.

The change of venue murder trial being held in Nacogdoches has ended with the defendant pleading guilty to murder in the first degree.

Tommy Wheeler, environmental health manager for the city of Nacogdoches, was caught off guard earlier this month, when, at a state training function in Austin, he received the National Environmental Health Association's Certificate of Merit for Texas.

Sacrifice comes with the job description for anyone involved with the military. Thousands of enlisted men and women know that the sacrifices come in many forms, from time away from families when touring overseas, to the possible loss of life or limb that can occur in a combat environment.

The Cash for Clunkers program came and went quickly. The program was created mainly to help stimulate the automobile economy and to move Americans into cars with better miles per gallon through cash incentives.

"The Passion of Dracula" opens this coming weekend at the Lamp-Lite Theatre for a two-weekend run.

Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison joined a chorus of other state and local officials Monday at the Nacogdoches County Farm Bureau to support state Proposition 11.