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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.

PORTLAND, Oregon – A convicted killer born in Haskell County who was executed in Texas in 1999 has been identified as the person responsible for a 40-year-old murder. Cold case detectives in Portland, Oregon have identified Jerry “Animal” McFadden as the killer of 20-year-old Anna Marie Hlavka, who was found dead in July 1979 in her

Gladewater Fire Department today made a donation of cut and prepared fire hose for the safety of Gladewater ISD campuses. The fire hose, which is expired and unusable at the department, will now be used in the GISD campuses as a deterrent during a possible intrusion. This hose is used to slip over door closures and add