Tyler News

Staff Reports Henry's Chapel Methodist Church and Cemetery will have a memorial service at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Henry's Chapel community on Farm-to-Market Road 13, east of Troup.

A Smith County dog was quarantined and will be tested after biting an animal control officer.

Juan Dockens was making a routine call today in the Lindale area when a Great Dane bit him on the face, according to a Smith County Sheriff's Office news release.

Anna Marie Lee, of Tyler, a member of Tyler's Richard Boden Colonial Dames XVII Century chapter, was ele-cted and installed as National Organizing Secretary of the National Society, Colonial Dames VXII Century, at the National Conference in Washington, D.C., this spring.

What: Lighten Up & Play, revealing winners of the Lighten Up East Texas challenge When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday Where: Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium Prizes: Grand prize is a 2013 Dodge Dart.

Judge Randy Shelton, left, with the help of court bailiff Ronnie Guidry, right, sets up the needed connections to use Skype with a foster child for a video conference.

Petition gatherers for legal beer and wine sales in Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 are hoping the third time is the charm.

This summer around 20 students are working in Costa Rica's northern rain forest region.

Human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors is an international problem, and one that exists in the United States and East Texas.

The formal group that opposed the Tyler Independent School District bond, which passed on Saturday, says academic performance at the district is still the top priority.

The 34-year-old single mom was able to do that through the Literacy Council of Tyler, which helped her study for that test for free.

A resolution to allow Texas voters the ability to limit statewide elected officials to two consecutive terms died Wednesday evening.

TYLER - We typically think of sex trafficking as something that happens in foreign countries, but the truth is, it's happening all over the United States, including right here in East Texas.

WEST - The results of the investigation into the fires and explosion in West will be revealed on Thursday.

Tyler police and paramedics are responding to a 2-vehicle collision that is slowing traffic on Old Jacksonville Highway at Crow Road.

The Smith County Sheriff's Office needs the public's help in locating a subject who is on the run.

TYLER, TX A joint investigation between the Smith County Sheriff's Office and Henderson County has led to the arrest of Joshua Shapley, 30, in connection with several thefts and burglaries in southwest Smith County and eastern Henderson County.

A Robert E. Lee High School student was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after the school bus the student was riding in was rear-ended on Wednesday.

When students at the University of Texas at Tyler come back to school this fall, they will see some major changes at one off-campus student housing community.

The focus of lawsuits stemming from the April 17 explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant may change, after news that Adair Grain Inc., doing business as West Fertilizer Co., holds only a $1 million liability insurance policy.