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TSWA Class 3A All-state football team announced: Eligia Carter on first team offense, Tristan Seahorn on second team offense Danny Badger and Rashaud Johnson named to honorable mention team BRYAN – Running back Darwin Barlow and defensive lineman James Sylvester who led Newton to the Division II state title are the players of the year

LONGVIEW— Gregg County Criminal District Attorney Tom B. Watson announced  today that Johnifer Ray Mumphrey of Kilgore, Texas has been sentenced to 55 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Burglary of a Habitation, with Intent to Commit Assault. On or about May 14, 2018, Mumphrey stormed into a residence, uninvited, and assaulted

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the Texas 6th District Court of Appeals in Texarkana issued an opinion yesterday stating that Kilgore ISD had no right to reject or lower local option homestead exemptions for taxpayers in Gregg County.   “Kilgore ISD cannot legally siphon money away from homeowners without their vote or consent.

On Oct. 29, 2006, deputies with the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on an oil lease off Fritz Swanson Road north of Texas 31, where two men discovered an unidentified woman’s body.  The woman later came to be known as Lavender Doe. The Lavender Doe Homicide case has been active from the

TYLER – U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that seven individuals have been arrested and indicted as the result of a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking activities in the Eastern District of Texas.               Beginning in 2017, a combined task force of federal, state and local law enforcement

Gladewater ISD Superintendent Sedric Clark has announced that all GISD campuses will be dismissed tomorrow (Friday) to sanitize classrooms and buses for flu and viral illnesses. East Texas has the highest rate of flu cases in the nation. Supt. Clark says he hopes to help stop the disease from spreading further.   DAEP classes at

By Jim Bardwell It was like an early Christmas for the City of Gladewater last week when city officials found out they will no longer have to pay $90,000 annually for ambulance service. According to Gladewater City Manager Ricky Tow, CHRISTUS EMS – formerly Champion EMS – will no longer require cities in its coverage area to

LOCAL TAX OFFICE TEMPORARILY CLOSING Gregg County Precinct 3 taxpayers were advised last week the Justice of the Peace office in Gladewater would be closing soon and people having business with the JP will need to drive to Kilgore. Now the tax office is closing – but just temporarily. The last day the JP Pct.