Panola County News

It sounds like a tall Texas tale that's been turned into a movie. But this chilling story is fundamentally true.

Richard Linklater 's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the murder of an 81-year-old woman in a fashion that is not exactly tragic.

Tatum Police said the Ferris attacked an elderly man and a woman with a claw hammer on Highway 43, on the Panola County side of Tatum.

Officials say no injuries have been reported in a gas line explosion in rural East Texas that shook some homes before dawn.

Reports indicate the explosion in the Carthage area of Panola County, Texas just before 6:00 a.m. Sent in by a KSLA News 12 viewer outside of Carthage, wanting to know what caused they explosion they say they could "see and feel."