Tyler News

H&W Marine and 95.3 and 102.3 The Breeze presents the 6th annual Lake Palestine PALOOZA to benefit Pets for People, a local no-kill animal shelter.

BY ADAM RUSSELL arussell@tylerpaper.com OWENTOWN - A nondescript metal building, formerly used as a Smith County Road and Bridge "barn," now acts as the de-facto death row for thousands of stray dogs each year.

The Tyler Morning Telegraph contacted the Texas Department of State Health Services in an effort to check locations in East Texas that store ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer involved in the West explosion last month.

Bishop T. K. Gorman Regional Catholic School the new John H. Carney Softball Field on Saturday.

By Coshandra DIllard cdillard@tylerpaper.com Nacogdoches residents shined Saturday as many were winners of prizes during Lighten Up East Texas' Lighten Up and Play - an event culminating a nearly six-month regional weight- loss contest.

Once again those elected to serve the taxpayers are not even listening to their bosses .

Tyler voters approved a much-needed school bond proposal last week by a wide margin - 63 percent to 37 percent.

It was only two years ago that the Rev. Arthur Miller helped to start Joyful Beginnings Lutheran Church in Tyler.

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.