Scottsville News

Utilizing firefighters from four different departments, fire officials were able to suppress a small structure fire that occurred at a Karnack apartment complex Monday evening.

An alligator's teeth aren't that sharp, really. They don't need to be. When a gator clamps its powerful jaws onto its prey - and if the meat and bone are too bulky to swallow - it grips tight and spins onto its back, tearing the flesh into manageable, bloody chunks.

The Big Pines Lodge parking lot was vacant. The once vibrant restaurant was silent.

Harrison County Fire Marshal Dennis Engdahl said Tuesday he doesn't believe the fire that destroyed the Big Pines Lodge in Karnack was caused by an arsonist.

The sun set Saturday on a legacy of East Texas fine dining as flames demolished the Big Pine Lodge in Karnack.

The body of a young woman found in an oil well pit in eastern Harrison County on Monday remains unidentified, Harrison County authorities have said.

Albert Nesbitt Jr. was sentenced Friday to 20 years in the penitentiary for the armed robbery of a Scottsville liquor store.

Marshall Main Street will once again participate in the annual Percy Johnson Burn Foundation Camp I'm Still Me activities for young burn victims.

Between 65 and 70 firefighters from more than a dozen departments gathered in Nesbitt's Cypress Bottom area for a recent daylong training session.

The anointing of God will flow throughout the sanctuary as "All For Him," a Marshall-based recording gospel group, makes its debut in concert Saturday at St.

Between 400 and 600 gardeners, all masters at their trade, are expected to descend upon Marshall for the 2009 Texas Master Gardener State Conference later this week.

On Feb. 27-28 the first Ark-La-Tex Men's Rally was held at Scottsville Camp and Conference Center near Marshall Texas.

Harrison County Commissioners on Tuesday approved nomination of General Cable Industries Inc.

Harrison County volunteer firefighters are on the scene of a large grass fire in the Scottsville area, just south of Interstate 20.

The annual meeting of the Friends of the Waskom Public Library was Jan. 12. The group reviewed some of the previous year's activities and planned the 2009 schedule of meetings and events.

January 13, 2009 1920-2009 Stanley Louis Helmke, a longtime resident of San Antonio, Texas, passed away Thursday, Jan.

Minutes after he was reported as having held up a Scottsville store, a man was arrested by Harrison County authorities.

A Tennessee man remains in Harrison County Jail on $100,000 bond after his arrest for possession of a controlled substance.

Once stripped of his Special Forces patch and seemingly headed for a dishonorable discharge, Staff Sgt.

Emergency Services District 3 President Henry Sanders said he is ready to move forward with improvements to Blocker-Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department as soon as a lease is signed.