Whitehouse News

When Carlton and Deborah Edwards began working together every day, running their home building and design company, it was a defining moment for the couple.

By DAYNA WORCHEL Staff Writer The prosecution and defense rested their cases Wednesday in the punishment phase of the capital murder trial for a Whitehouse woman convicted of killing her mentally challenged babysitter and setting the body on fire in June 2010.

Prosecutors rested their capital murder case against a Whitehouse woman on Friday, and defense attorneys Brett Harrison and Jeff Haas will begin presenting their testimony on Tuesday morning.

Hundreds of seniors lined up for an academic awards ceremony Sunday morning at Booker T. Washington High School.

The Smith County District Attorney's office rested its case this morning against Kimberly Cargill in the punishment phase of her trial.

The mother of a Whitehouse woman convicted of capital murder last week cried as she testified Monday about the time her daughter told her she hoped her cancer would come back and that she would die a "lonely, old woman." Rachel Wilson, Kimberly Cargill's mother, said she paid for her daughter and Ms.

Pat Mallory, of Gateway to Hope, is renovating the 2,900-square-foot Gateway to Hope Day Center, a daytime resource building for the homeless.

By DAYNA WORCHEL Staff Writer Now that a Smith County jury has found a Whitehouse woman guilty of capital murder, it must decide whether she will receive the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

An East Texas woman faces a possible death sentence after being convicted of capital murder for killing her mentally challenged baby sitter.

The trial of an East Texas woman accused of killing her mentally disabled babysitter continues in a Tyler courtroom.

Smith County voters can go to five locations including, the Election Office inside the Courthouse Annex Building, 200 E. Ferguson St.; and Heritage Building, 1900 W. Bellwood Road; the Noonday Community Center, 16662 County Road 196 in Tyler; the Lindale Masonic Lodge, 200 Margaret St.

The state is expected to rest its case today against a Whitehouse woman accused of killing her babysitter to keep her from testifying in a child custody hearing, Judge Jack Skeen Jr.

A house full of trash greeted Smith County officials June 23, 2010, as they searched the home of a Whitehouse woman accused of killing her babysitter.

The trial of an East Texas woman accused of killing her mentally disabled babysitter continues in a Tyler courtroom.

Bobby Lewis testified this afternoon that he discovered the body of Cherry Walker on June 19 as he made a U-Turn on Oscar Burkett Road, or CR 2191 in Whitehouse.

Before the jury is brought in Kimberly Cargill submits paperwork saying she is the sole user of the Verizon number 903-570-2880, even though the billing name is Jill Low and user is listed at Kimberly Low.

Troup ISD employees were recognized for their hard work and dedication Saturday as part of the district's first recognition gala.

Richard Wilson, a retired psychologist who worked for the Andrews Center and who diagnosed Cherry Walker as mentally challenged and eligible for social services in 1995 and in 2000, took the stand this afternoon as the Kimberly Cargill trial continued.

The man who is from Whitehouse was traveling in a pickup truck back to his home in the northbound lane of Highway 69 when he fell asleep at the wheel.

Fitness instructor and Whitehouse resident Lindsay Gray's life changed forever on July 7, 2009.