Nacogdoches News

James Lamar Woodson, 25, of Nacogdoches was arrested Wednesday in connection with several cases of arson, some at the felony level, including recent fires on Craven Street, and several vehicle and building burglaries, according to reports from the Nacogdoches Fire Department and Nacogdoches Police Department.

Thousands of prospective students and their families swarmed the Stephen F. Austin State University campus yesterday during the school's Showcase Saturday event.

Students at Stephen F. Austin State University were reminded on Monday of the incredible speed at which a small fire can become a raging inferno during a burning demonstration of a mock dorm room.

A new water tower located near Main and Zula streets in Nacogdoches is starting to take its familiar shape as crews work to complete the tower's bowl plate by plate.

A surprising history can be found within the walls of the pale yellow house on Roselake Drive.

Contributions made to the Relief from Hearts of Nacogodoches last month helped the Greater Manila Association to provide assistance to some of Manila's outlying provinces affected by Typhoon Ketsana.

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.

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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.