Pollok News

LA VERNIA, Texas -- At the Concrete Cemetery in La Vernia, Janet Pollok and her friends brought birthday balloons to Luke Pollok's gravesite Wednesday and sang "Happy Birthday." "It's the hardest thing I've ever been through," Pollok said.

A 10-year-old Lufkin boy is fighting for his life in a Louisiana hospital after a four-wheeler accident Sunday afternoon in Pollok.

A 10-year-old boy was transported by helicopter to a Louisiana hospital Sunday evening after flipping a four-wheeler ATV vehicle on R L Smith Road off FM 706.

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A Tyler man has been transported to Lufkin Memorial Hospital following a two-vehicle wreck on Highway 69 in Pollok.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer WELLS -- Authorities are looking for a 19-year-old man who allegedly contributed to the August beating of a Wells man.

An Angelina County Sheriff's deputy has been fired after he was ordered to serve a 30-day jail sentence in Cherokee County for a contempt of court matter in that county.

THE COLD FRONT THAT PUSHED THROUGH OUR REGION BECAME STATIONARY OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND NOW IS SLOWLY MOVING TO THE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT.

An Angelina County Sheriff's deputy has been jailed for 30 days in Cherokee County under a contempt of court order issued by a family court judge in that county.

Normally found in the Andes mountaintops of Peru, the alpaca, a smaller cousin of the llama, is not the first thing you'd expect to see running around East Texas.

CROCKETT A Crockett man was arrested after the 2000 Mercury he was driving crashed into the All Saints Episcopal Church on East Houston Avenue about 6:22 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

Hope is going hog wild, and you're invited along for the ride. The Ride for Hope is a motorcycle benefit ride supporting Seasons of Hope Center, a faith-based residential program helping people with addiction or other life-controlling problems through Bible study, equine therapy and more.

Brushing teeth, clothing oneself and deciding what to do each day are things most East Texans take for granted.

Last month, possibly the first set of triplets born in Angelina County turned 80.

COURTESY PHOTO Luke Pollok of Poth checks the shelves in a toy store on the way home from Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital in San Antonio July 19.

Aggravated assault and criminal mischief, 1500 block of Looneyville St. Nijinski Murphy, 32, 1724 CR 521, was damaging a car.

A Lufkin man who led law enforcement on an eight-hour chase Tuesday before surrendering had earlier ordered Aryan gang members to kidnap and beat a girlfriend because he thought she had set him up with police, according to an arrest affidavit.

Angel of Joy Lutheran - ELCA. Upcoming events. June 14. Second Sunday after Pentecost - 9 a.m. Sunday School, 10:15 a.m. Worship Today another Home Extreme Makeover at the Lufkin State School is scheduled.

In Hudson, the top-ranked Spring Hill Panthers bounced back from an early defeat on Saturday to earn a 12-6 win over Bridge City in the third-and-deciding game of a best-of-three Region III semifinal.

The economy is recovering, but the effect of a dismal 2008 is about to challenge timber owners not to miss the financial forest for the trees.