{"id":178668,"date":"2012-04-10T18:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=178668"},"modified":"2012-04-11T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:45:15","slug":"officials-seek-to-keep-lufkin-courthouse-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=178668","title":{"rendered":"Officials Seek to Keep Lufkin Courthouse Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=178669\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-178669\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/thumb_dept-justice-seal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_dept-justice-seal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-178669\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN \u2014 Officials are preparing \u201ca vigorous defense\u201d to keep the Ward R. Burke Federal Courthouse in Lufkin open, a U.S. District Court clerk said Monday. KETK and the Lufkin Daily News report that as part of an effort to cut costs, the federal government is considering closing dozens of courtrooms across the country, including the federal courthouse in Lufkin. Of the 60 facilities to be looked at for possible closure, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Lufkin\u2019s courthouse was ranked 45th. David Maland, U.S. District Court clerk for the Eastern District of Texas, said that means the facility \u201cis getting a fair amount of use.\u201d You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/lufkindailynews.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/lufkindailynews.com<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2014 Officials are preparing \u201ca vigorous defense\u201d to keep the Ward R. Burke Federal Courthouse in Lufkin open, a U.S. District Court clerk said Monday. KETK and the Lufkin Daily News report that as part of an effort to cut costs, the federal government is considering closing dozens of courtrooms across the country, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=178668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials Seek to Keep Lufkin Courthouse Open<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 22:31:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178668"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179553,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178668\/revisions\/179553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}