Henderson News

By BETTY WATERS Staff Writer HENDERSON -- A Rusk County Grand Jury indicted a defendant in three bombing threats at Henderson High School and also handed up 47 other indictments this week, including some for gambling.

A Gregg County Grand jury indicted 15 people this week, including two men charged with murder.

A major wreck involving two trucks Wednesday left one man trapped in his vehicle and needing medical treatment.

Marie Martin wants nothing more than to bury her half brother next to family. However, eight years after his disappearance, officials with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office are still trying to find his body.

Maintenance crews on Monday are scheduled to begin several days of seal coat operations on U.S. 259 in Longview, between Loop 281 and FM 1844, according to a Texas Department of Transportation news release.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer HENDERSON - A woman who police say used her vehicle as a weapon to run another vehicle off the road last year has been sentenced after entering a guilty plea.

A Henderson teenager died in a one-vehicle wreck Tuesday after his vehicle left the road and hit a tree in Rusk County.

Crews plan to continue seal coat operations Monday on U.S. 259 in North Longview.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer HENDERSON - A Rusk County jury took 45 minutes to convict a Henderson woman of driving intoxicated with a child under 15 in the vehicle after she wrecked another vehicle and fled the scene in March.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer HENDERSON - A woman believed killed in a late Wednesday night accident was found early this morning.

Police in Longview are warning the public to "check your paper money " closely. You may be carrying a counterfeit bill.

Longview Regional Medical Center on Wednesday announced its 2010 Stars Over Longview.

Burglary of a habitation, 3200 block of North Street. Food was taken from an apartment by someone who entered without permission.

Rusk County officials recently made their fourth offer in negotiating to buy the Henderson-Overton rail spur.

By BRIAN PEARSON Business Editor Behind his desk at Wagner Cadillac, salesman Jerry Powell keeps his customer-information cards in an antiquated file cabinet.

Gavin Rodden, the 8 year boy fighting metastatic muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma, which began in muscle in his prostate, now has a web page at CaringBridge, Gavin the Strong: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/gavinthestrong Gavin is taking chemotherapy in Houston.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer HENDERSON -- A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper, who was hailed as heroic last year, has been arrested for assault/family violence.

Railroads might have their roots in the 19th century, but they still are important to the area economy, say transportation and economic development officials.

October 1, 2009 - Libertarian Party of Texas officials are visiting Henderson, Ore City, and Tyler this weekend as part of a three-month, 24-city tour through Texas to recruit local candidates and support their county parties in the 2010 elections.

Orange memories will be made through Oct. 31 at the Pumpkin Patch in Kilgore. "Everything relates to pumpkins, and we don't do Halloween - we do pumpkins," Cecilia Mitchell said Sunday at St.