Mount Pleasant News

It is disbelief for the family of Capt. Russell Seager. The Mount Pleasant soldier arrived in Texas just one day before last Thursday's shooting massacre.

Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.

Things were golden at the First United Methodist Church at a Friday luncheon. The church was honoring couples who have been married 50 or more years.

Something's cooking at Northeast Texas Community College, and it's a tasty deal for both students and the public.

Nelson Wolff was a delegate at the 1974 Texas state constitutional convention. Then a state senator, Wolff wrote about the failed seven-month effort in his book "Challenge of Change." He also described the reason for the convention: "The document was poorly written, highly restrictive and contained much statutory law.

By Chris Young PCSO funding is not going to waste, Odd Rode Parish Councillors have been reassured.

Kim Walrath has worked in the Carlin Alumni House for almost 12 years and can recall four separate incidences of unexplainable behavior occurring in the building.

There's only one week left until Election Day. Next Tuesday, several lowcountry communities will elect their leaders and it's gearing up to be a busy day.

HAWTHORNE - An unoccupied booth at a service station was destroyed early Sunday morning following an accidental natural gas explosion, police said.

" A plan to revitalize a portion of Hickory has had a setback, but the man who first envisioned the project believes by spring it will be back on track.

A FOGGY EARLY WED AM...BUT MOST OF THE RAIN IS OVER...ONE MORE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS WED.

Hughes Springs ISD is letting out classes at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon because of the flooding conditions in the county.

A longtime employee with the Kenosha Unified School District was found dead at the back of his Mount Pleasant home Wednesday afternoon.

The death of a 51-year-old Mount Pleasant man found shot in his home Wednesday afternoon is being investigated as a homicide, police said.

It seems that everywhere our crews went Tuesday, they found some flooding. Mount Pleasant, Mineola, Terrell, Mount Vernon and Gilmer are just some of the hardest hit cities.

EIGHTEEN NSW childcare centres have been given warnings after a government crackdown in which 37 centres were randomly inspected and many were found to be breaching government regulations.

***A strong cold front now moving through southeast Oklahoma and North Central Texas will move from northwest to southeast across East Texas on Friday leading to numerous showers and thunderstorms and much cooler temperatures.

A 15-year-old boy was arrested Monday afternoon at the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls School, accused of slashing another boy with a pair of scissors, police said.

Superwoman Yvonne Crum , who simultaneously held a job, raised a family and excelled at fundraising and community leadership, will receive Les Femmes du Monde' s 2009 Woman of the Year Award on Friday.

Will Campuzano's hometown stinks like chicken. "There's a huge factory there," Campuzano said of Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he moved with his mother and his sister after they left Mexico when he was 2 years old.