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Mort Kothmann is a ecosystems science and management professor at Texas A&M. On his way home from a family reunion, a drunk driver in a Buick Regal collided the Kothmann minivan.

We entered with the air of knowing what we were doing. Oh, how wrong we would be proved in just a few minutes.

I suspect that the best-read column in the Buffalo Press, a weekly newspaper in East Texas, is Sheriff Ralph Billings' report on criminal activity in Freestone County.

It's the first, oldest and some say "indispensable" food bank in Tyler and East Texas and still a best-kept secret among many.

Described as a 'true Texas size sewer bore,' John Wright Construction undertook a job in Buffalo, Texas, that was initially specified to be done using auger boring.

Currently, TxDOT's contractor is reducing the northbound lanes from two lanes to one lane in order to continue work on the widening to the Campbells Creek Bridge on SH 6. This is just north of OSR in Robertson County and the speed limit has been reduced to 60mph through this construction area.

The Museum of East Texas Guild is seeking sponsors for its 15th annual Festival of Trees.

The Buffalo ISD in Leon County is closing its schools Friday because of the large number of students and staff who are absent because of flu-like illness.

Albert Bierstadt , Last of the Buffalo, 1891. Photogravure . Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1967.42 FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820-1970. The exhibition, on view through January 10, 2010, showcases approximately 120 prints and illustrated books from the museum's permanent ...

A boil water notice for the City of Buffalo has been cancelled. Results from water samples received this morning indicated there were no contaminants in the water.

Three East Texas school districts are devastated after a deadly weekend accident.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the names of three teenagers killed in a Friday night wreck outside of Elkhart.

SEAGOVILLE Larry Underwood, 72, of Seagoville, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Seagoville.

Scattered showers remain in the forecast for Saturday, with only widely scattered activity daily Sunday and Monday.

Maurice is a 78-year-old Champion. Literally, because that's his name, Maurice Champion.