A case of a former East Texas funeral director and choir director accused of shooting a widow and hiding her body in a freezer for nine months heads back to a courtroom April 6 for a new sentencing trial. Bernie Tiede was convicted in Panola County of murdering …

      Texas springtime brings flowers to fields and roadsides and a question to the minds of nature lovers – is it really illegal to pick bluebonnets? The answer is no – there is no law against picking our State Flower. However, there are laws against criminal trespass – …

    Three men were arrested after they were reported to Sulphur Springs police for theft from the local Walmart. An officer stopped the pickup described by store security on Mockingbird but one suspect bailed out of the vehicle and fled on foot. 45 year old Velvin Stewart Skinner was …

    Hopkins County Deputies arrested 47 year old John Henri Bonner of Dallas after he was indicted on felony forgery charges. Bonner is also wanted on unrelated Brazos County warrants.  Bond was set at $5,000.

    A 25 year old Winona man was brought back to Sulphur Springs from Athens, where he was being held on a Hopkins County warrant. Michael Wayne Humphrey is charged with fabricating or tampering with evidence relating to a drug charge. He’s being held without bond in the Hopkins …

  Dr. Unal “Zak” Sakoglu of the Computer Science Department was awarded with a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (ARFL) Summer Faculty Fellowship award for the summer of 2016. Sakoglu won the award for his research proposal on “Applications of Infrared Sensor Technology.” He will be spending most of his …

  Authorities have identified the two men who were found dead near some railroad tracks in Longview. Investigators say 20 year old Dekeilen Joe Nelson of Gilmer and 28 year old Kevin Lorenzo Stephenson of Henderson had been shot to death. Their deaths are being investigated as a double homicide.

    An East Texas woman has been arrested for impersonating a police officer, Investigators say 38 year old  Jennifer McGowen of Chandler showed up at a Henderson County crime scene wearing a pistol on her hip, and told officers she was a Van Zandt County deputy. One of the …

    The Texas Department of Transportation  announced  that Longview Bridge and Road LTD began work to improve State Highway 37 in Franklin County in Northeast Texas on March 22. TxDOT officials granted the contractor 457 working days, weather permitting, to complete this project at an estimated cost of more …

    TxDOT has announced that contractor Highway 19 Construction LLC will begin improving FM 1870 in Hopkins County next Monday. The contractor has 120 working days, weather permitting, to complete this project  from Hwy 11 to CR 2309 at an estimated cost of more than $1.7 million. Work should …