Tatum News

Texas has become the first state to have special education students' standardized test scores counted in federal school accountability ratings, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

If you tried to drive on Farm-to-Market Road 1716 in eastern Rusk County Tuesday morning, your path would have been blocked by a 10-foot-high wall of dirt and a 12.5 million pound piece of mining equipment.

Preliminary Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills passing rates show improvements in math and science at most East Texas schools.

The Longview News-Journal is baseball playoff central. Staff writers Rick Kretzschmar and Gabriel D. Brooks and sports correspondent J.C. Derrick will report scores following each inning of their playoff games tonight.

Young musicians are planning an opening note to a patriotic weekend that begins May 22.

Disabled and short on cash, Linda Arthur says she couldn't afford food without assistance.

Smoking around the Rusk County Courthouse is allowed, for now. County commissioners postponed implementing new smoking restrictions at the courthouse Monday.

Rusk County Commissioners on Monday granted Tatum-based Crystal Farms Water Supply Corp.

Area early risers have a choice of at least 15 sunrise services on Easter Sunday.

About 200 East Texans picked up litter around Longview on Saturday as part of the Great American Cleanup, a national community improvement project.

Creer leaves Vols, will 'go in different direction' A growing backfield lost a competitor when tailback Lennon Creer decided to leave Tennessee's football team.

Dancing can get under a person's skin. "I'll just be there one minute, and the next I'll be dancing," said Bartolo Aguilar, 17, one of 10 Pine Tree High School students who comprise half of "Dancing with the Stars." The annual fundraiser is set for 7 p.m. April 4 at First Christian Church east of downtown Longview.

Eight East Texas companies were among the top 100 polluters in Texas in 2007, environmental regulators said Thursday.

The Texas Education Agency has recognized five area school campuses for having a distinguished performance, according to the agency's Web site.

Dancing with the Stars is a competition that pairs local celebrities with students who perform in Pine Tree High School's "Where Were You in '42," a show held each year to raise money for the Heritage House ...

Congratulations to you, Tammy Cromer-Campbell, for being honored for National Women's History Month.

Tatum Independent School District's latest land acquisition benefits the school two-fold, Superintendent Dee Hartt announced Thursday.

Freestone County XTO Energy will drill the H.L. & P. Gas Unit Well No. 24 to 15,000 feet 1.9 miles southwest of Donie in the A.D. Ferguson Survey, A-244, in the Bear Grass Field.

Two Rusk County school districts ranked among the top 30 in the state for black student achievement, with Tatum schools being second in the Texas.

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