Today is
Saturday June 13, 2026
TYLER – County Road 1261, also known as Big Eddy Road, is scheduled to be closed to through traffic beginning Wednesday. The action is needed to replace a concrete culvert pipe that crosses the road. The work is expected to take 6 to 8 hours. It’s part of the project to widen and overlay Big Eddy Road, from Farm-to-Market Road 2661 to Texas Highway 155, west of Noonday. Work on the roadway improvements will begin this month. If the work scheduled for Wednesday is delayed due to weather, a revised closure date will be issued.
KILGORE – One person has been killed and one injured in a one vehicle accident in Kilgore. Dead on arrival at a Tyler hospital was Catherine Michelle McCarty, 19, of Kilgore. Injured was the car’s driver, Zachary Paul Vick, 20, of Kilgore. The accident happened just before 4:00 Sunday morning on Farm Road 349. The vehicle is said to have left the road and rolled and hit a concrete culvert. The vehicle then flipped and rolled again. Evidence gathered at the scene indicated alcohol may have been involved in the crash. The wreck remains under investigation.
TYLER – Funeral services have been set for a Tyler Fire Department captain and his wife who died after an Arkansas accident. According to Stewart Family Funeral Home, funeral services for Marty and Jean Lawrence will be Thursday morning at 11:00 in the worship center of Tyler’s Green Acres Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Flint Cemetery. The preliminary crash report says the two were heading east on Interstate 30 around 12:15 Saturday morning in Clark County when an 18-wheeler also heading east, swerved and hit their car. Both vehicles left the road and came to rest in the tree line. The driver of the 18-wheeler, Raad E. Hamdeh Abu of Illinois, was injured.
LONGVIEW – A Longview man was driving over 100 miles an hour just before a Longview accident that killed two persons and injured two on September 21st. The wreck killed Rylee Malone and Meshebia Renee Johnson, both 17 and both from Longview. The two drivers, Palmer Malone, 19, of Longview and Christa Tamara Wilson 32, of Harleton, were injured. Wilson remains hospitalized. The Longview News Journal, quoting a search warrant, says data from the airbag control module in Malone’s car showed he was going 109 mph two seconds before the air bags were deployed. Read the rest of this entry »
TYLER – The Tyler Street Department has announced some lane closures.
Lane closures have been announced at Rieck Road and New Copeland Road. it will be on the northwest corner of New Copeland and Rieck Road intersection. It will be Tuesday through Friday, or until work is complete, from 8:00am till 3:00pm each day. It is because of excavation of a major drainage channel. The lane closures will allow safe staging of large equipment needed to complete the work. Read the rest of this entry »
TYLER – Tyler police continue their investigation of the Sunday morning burglary at Atwood’s on WNW Loop 323. The suspects, driving the pickup pictured here, stole five rifles, ammunition and a variety of other items. The store manager discovered when he arrived at work that the front glass doors had been broken out. Five suspects were observed in the store video. If you know who drives this pickup, or can supply other information about the burglary, you are asked to contact the Tyler Police Department at 903-531-1000 or Tyler-Smith County Crime stoppers at 903-597-2833.
EAST TEXAS – Tuesday night, police departments in East Texas are taking part in National Night Out activities, which helps promote police-community partnerships. It is celebrated in Texas the first Tuesday night in October, when its cooler. The rest of the country does it in August. Neighborhoods host block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and various other community events. Some include safety demonstrations, seminars, youth events, visits from emergency personnel, exhibits and much more. Among the area cities where activities are planned are Longview, Marshall, Kilgore, Gladewater, White Oak, Palestine and Gregg County. Tyler’s annual Texans Against Crime block parties will be held on Tuesday, October 10th.
LONGVIEW – A Longview man is facing drug charges after a large quantity of narcotics was found in a South Green Street home. Carteris Loyd-Robbinson, 24, was arrested after a warrant was served at the south Longview home. The warrant was served by the Gregg County Organized Drug Enforcement Unit with assistance of the Longview SWAT team and the Special Investigation and Apprehension Unit. Along with the drugs, officers also seized two handguns during the search. Besides the drug charges, Robbinson is also charged with evading arrest or detention. He is in the Gregg County Jail with bonds totaling $112,500.
TYLER – Two burglary suspects have been arrested by Tyler police. The officers responded to an alarm at Honda of Tyler on the Chandler Highway, Sunday morning at 4:00. They saw two persons running into the woods at the rear of the business. They left behind three motorcycles that they were in the process of stealing. Two teens were later found hiding in a car on the Old Chandler Highway. Arrested were James Earl Warren, 18, of Tyler and a 15 year old Tyler juvenile. They believe one more person may have been involved in the burglary.
TYLER – Tyler’s bulky item collection week starts on Monday. The pickup of those large items is sponsored twice a year by Tyler’s Solid Waste Department and Keep Tyler Beautiful. It’s a great time for residential customers to get rid of those large items that would normally require a special fee to pick up. All you have to do is place the items on the curb Monday and a city crew will pick it up. There is no need to call the Solid Waste Office. But you need to note that items may be collected on a different day from your usual scheduled garbage collection. Items that will be picked up, at no charge, include furniture, appliances, carpet, fence material, up to four non-commercial vehicle tires, old toys and other such large items. No liquid waste, limbs or brush will be picked up. Paint must be dried out with oil dry or kitty litter. Read the rest of this entry »
TYLER – The Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration has named U.T. Tyler professor Dr. Jennifer Jones as ‘Advocate of the Year.’ At school since 2015, Dr. Jones is an assistant professor within the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. With 20 years of educational experience in both urban and rural districts, Jones served as a past public school educator, school superintendent, principal, counselor and special education teacher. She will be recognized in a ceremony in Dallas next month.
TYLER – A man wanted by Tyler police for numerous burglaries has been arrested in Henderson County. Tyler detectives had obtained 5 arrest warrants for Timothy David Himes Jr., 41, of Larue. The U.S. Marshal’s Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Department found him Thursday at a residence in Larue. As they tried to arrest him, Himes is said to have resisted arrest and escaped from custody, but was captured and booked in to the Henderson County Jail. He is facing numerous charges, including escape from arrest, resisting arrest, evading arrest and burglary of a habitation. His bonds total $577,000. And There are numerous other warrants pending from other law enforcement agencies.
PALESTINE – A Palestine High School football player has been arrested for assaulting a teammate. Arrested Thursday evening was Le’George Marquez Gray, 17, a high school junior. He has been booked into the Anderson County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. He is said to have assaulted senior Michael Stanczyk, 18, after practice Wednesday. He is in stable condition in a Dallas hospital following surgery for facial injuries.
MARSHALL – The Marshall City Commission voted to confirm City Manager Lisa Agnor’s appointment of Cliff Carruth as Marshall’s new police chief at the Thursday commission meeting. He replaces Ron Davis, who was hired in May as Interim Police Chief. He will begin his new role at the end of October. Curruth has a total of 26 years of experience in law enforcement, six of those years were as a police officer with the Longview Police Department. He will be retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he most recently was the Senior Supervisory Resident Agent at the Little Rock Division of the FBI.
LONGVIEW – Longview police are trying to determine who broke into 8 businesses in a shopping center at Loop 281 and Bill Owens Parkway. They broke out walls and windows in the businesses in the early Thursday morning burglary. In one business, money was taken from a safe. It could have taken the burglars several hours to rummage through the stores at the Oak Forest Center.