Today is
Monday November 25, 2024
AUSTIN – Tyler’s sales tax allocations from the state continues to look very healthy. The state comptroller’s office is sending out the March tax allocations. The figures are based on sales made in January. Tyler’s March check is for $3,408,604.53. This is an increase of 9.23% over the same period last year. The year to date tax allocations come to $11,695,166.33. This is an increase of 6.47%. Longview’s March check is for $2,368,663.09 for a 1.41% decrease. But for the year, Longview’s sales tax allocations are up 2.64% at $8,555,617.00.
TYLER – The Tyler Police Department will be conducting an Enhanced Community Outreach Program on Thursday. Officers will be going door to door introducing themselves and reaching out to citizens to ask what they can do for them. The police say the program is one of many community police programs aimed at becoming closer to the community and addressing problems that residents may have in their specific neighborhoods. Read the rest of this entry »
SMITH COUNTY – A woman has been arrested in Smith County following a multi-county car chase. It started with Mineola police chasing a car with New York State license plates. They halted the chase when they lost sight of the vehicle. It resumed when a caller reported a reckless driver heading east on Interstate 20 from Highway 110. A state trooper picked up the chase around Jim Hogg Road. Stop sticks deflated three of the cars tires around Highway 155. The car finally stopped in Gregg County. Diane Marie Bartoszak, 31, Of New Windsor, New York, is charged with evading arrest with a vehicle. Her bond was set at $50,000.
TYLER – A Tyler teen is sentenced for impersonating an officer. Khristian Thomas Welch, 19, of Tyler, was given three years deferred adjudication. The sentence was part of a plea agreement. On February 23 of last year, police say Welch pulled over a driver on highway 64 West at Loop 323. The victim said the man had a handgun. They were able to get the license plate number and police found the vehicle a short time later at South Broadway and the Loop. Welch admitted to trying to pull the victim’s vehicle over after observing it run a red light. A red and blue strobe light was found on the front seat of his vehicle.
CANTON – The Van Zandt County SheriffââŹâ˘s Office is seeking information on a missing teenager. She is Emily Marie Rosamond, 15, of Grand Saline. She was last seen on March 3 between the hours of 10:00pm and 1:00am at her residence on Van Zandt County Road 1216. She is described as approximately 5ââŹâ˘ 05ââŹÂ tall, approximately 120 pounds, brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing dark colored pants with white designs, turquoise shirt, and Adidas tennis shoes. Emily is pictured wearing glasses but she no longer wears them. Emily has a scar on her right arm near her elbow. According to the departmentââŹâ˘s Facebook posting, when Emily left her home she did not take any extra clothing, food, personal items or her medication. If you have any information about her, You are asked to contact local law enforcement or the Van Zandt County SheriffââŹâ˘s Office 903-567-4133.
MARSHALL ââŹâ A Marshall man has been indicted in connection with an accident in which a pedestrian was seriously injured. Indicted by the Harrison County grand jury was Aaron Hollie Callaway, 49. He is charged with intoxication assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury. The accident occurred last October 25 at the intersection of West Pinecrest Drive and Washington Avenue. The pedestrian, who had serious injuries, and Callaway, who was also injured, were taken to the hospital. Callaway is also facing a separate charge which is not connected to the DWI accident. On November 21st, Callaway was stopped shortly before 8:00 that night for driving without having his headlights on. When he failed the field sobriety tests, he was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
TYLER ââŹâ Smith County authorities have arrested a Lindale man for sexually assaulting children. Arrested Tuesday was Joseph Henry Bolden, 31. SheriffââŹâ˘s department detectives say that Bolden had sexually assaulted two children on multiple occasions. Detectives say one child was four years old and the other was five years old. Bolden was arrested by the Smith County SheriffââŹâ˘s Office and the United States Marshals Service Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force. He was booked into the Smith County Jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by sexual contact. His bonds total $500,000.
TYLER – Tyler recorded a record low temperature Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service reports Tuesday’s low was 22 degrees. The previous record low for March 5th was 23 degrees, which was recorded in 1989. For the coldest temperature ever recorded during the month March, you have to go back to 1943 when it was 13 degrees in Tyler.
TYLER – Tyler Junior College has received two awards at the Texas Junior College Student Government Association Region 3 Conference. The school received the Student Center Chapter of the Year Award. Also, TJC sophomore elementary education major Hannah Lair was named Student of the Year. A native of Carlinville, Illinois, Lair serves as Student Senate executive secretary and co-chair of the health and safety committee. She also serves as secretary at the state level for Texas Junior College Student Government Association. This is the second year in a row that TJC has won Student of the Year, as former Student Senate President Patrick Smallwood earned the title in 2018. Lair and the TJC chapter will now advance to the state level in April, when they will compete against all of the community colleges in Texas.
WASHINGTON – Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert has been honored by The United Negro College Fund for his work in congress to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their students. Each member of Congress is scored based on their voting record and participation in activities that support HBCU’s core principles. The organization said that “Rep. Gohmert has been an advocate for HBCUs throughout his time in Congress, consistently voting on legislation that would not just support these institutions but would allow them to thrive. He has worked extensively with Wiley College, Texas College, and Jarvis Christian College, all of which are HBCU institutions within his district.”
PALESTINE – The boil water notice for Palestine’s Story Elementary has been rescinded. It was put into effect March 1st because of a water break affecting the school. No other residences or businesses were affected by this advisory. The city says the necessary corrective actions have been taken and, effective on Tuesday, the school’s water no longer requires boiling.
TYLER – The city of Tyler is encouraging businesses and residents to turn off automatic sprinklers when the temperature is freezing. Sprinkler systems left on when temperatures drop below freezing may cause sheets of ice to form in streets and on sidewalks. This can create hazardous driving conditions, as well as hazardous walking conditions on both sidewalks and at crosswalks. We will have one more freezing night before a warmup begins.
TYLER – Work is underway to improve Tyler’s Transportation Improvement Program. The purpose of the program is to list the transportation improvements that are scheduled to be implemented within the next four years. The proposed amendments include adding funding to acquire property and move utilities to facilitate two upcoming street widening projects: the Old Jacksonville Highway from Flint to Bullard and Paluxy Drive from Jeff Davis Drive to Farm Road 346. An open house will be held at 5:30 Wednesday afternoon to get public input on the projects. it will be held in the large conference room of the Tyler Development Center on West Ferguson.
ALTO – An arrest has been made in the attack on an elderly Alto couple last month. Charged Monday in the case was Joshua OBryan Gasaway, 32, of Alto. He is said to be the man who attacked the couple after they heard an alarm on their property on Farm Road 1911. He first attacked the woman, hitting her in the head. He then attacked her husband when he came out to help his wife. Gasaway is facing two charges of injury to the elderly. His bonds total $500,000. Cherokee County Jail records show Gasaway has been booked in jail on numerous occasions for various offenses beginning in 2005.
TYLER – A part time assistant boys basketball coach at Tyler’s T. K. Gorman High School has been arrested. Ja’Keal Latrenton Lockett, 24, was arrested Monday by the University of Texas at Tyler police. He has been charged with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a sex offense. He is in the Smith County Jail under a $250,000 bond. According to a statement released by the school, he has been placed on leave pending the outcome of the case. School officials say there is no indication that his actions occurred on campus or with students.