Tyler News

Possible severe weather, including straight-line winds and hail could reach the Tyler area by mid-afternoon, although the worst of it likely will remain far to the west, Doc Deason, KYTX CBS 19 meteorologist, said this morning.

Roughly 11,000 East Texans are currently without power following tonight's storms.

Encompass Home Health of East Texas will hold a fundraising garage sale June 1 to benefit the medical expenses of one of its employees, Davy Hobson.

A 55-year-old Tyler, Texas, building contractor has been sentenced for federal arson related charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

A series of bills designed to improve craft brewer access to Texas' multi-billion dollar beer market are on the way to the governor's desk after passing Monday from the House.

Regional and state officials called Toll 49 a "major success" on Monday at the Council of Cities meeting and praised Smith County communities for cooperating in making it a well-traveled, alternative road way to take the traffic stress off of cities.

By ADAM RUSSELL arussell@tylerpaper.com A series of bills designed to grow the state's multi-billion craft brew market are on the way to the governor's desk after passing from the House today.

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.