The National Weather Service will determine whether it was a tornado that caused damage to several buildings in the small East Texas town of Lovelady, destroying at least three mobile homes. Lance Wood, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service …
Emergency officials say four workers have been hurt when the wooden frame of a one-story structure they were building collapsed. The Sulphur Springs Fire Department says the accident happened Friday morning. Firefighter David James says the workers suffered apparent minor …
The owner of an East Texas methadone clinic has pleaded guilty to trying to have a competitor’s business torched and then seeking to have a co-defendant killed. Prosecutors in Tyler say 43-year-old Edwards Jacobs on Tuesday pleaded guilty to attempted …
Officials say nobody has been hurt in a fiery wreck involving a freight train and a gasoline tanker truck in East Texas. Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says the accident happened around 1:30 a.m. Thursday in Wills Point, about 45 …
Authorities say a retaining wall collapse in East Texas has left two construction workers dead and another hurt. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says the industrial accident happened Monday near Lake Jacksonville. Sheriff James Campbell says the workers were trying …
A former East Texas bank president faces up to 30 years in federal prison for using customer funds to pay his home contractor. Prosecutors in Lufkin on Monday announced the guilty plea from 33-year-old Willard T. Scott of Nacogdoches. The …
State foresters are hoping that recent rains will limit the 2012 wildfire risk in East Texas, where drought factored in several disastrous fires last year. Mark Stanford is associate director of forest resource protection for the Texas Forest Service. He …
Emergency personnel say two workers have been critically hurt in an apparent electrical explosion and fire at a biomass power plant in East Texas. A dispatcher with the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Department says the accident was reported around 8 a.m. …