August 19, 2009 RSS feed / News

Texas employers can earn "Cash for Workers"

East Texas employers have an opportunity to receive "Cash for Workers" for training and hiring skilled job seekers currently receiving unemployment insurance through the Ready to Work program. More...

Hip Hop and R&B concert features headliners from Kilgore and Swisher House

If Hip Hop and R&B are your kind of music, the place to be is the Longview High School Coliseum on Saturday, Aug. 29. Matt Jackson, formerly from Kilgore and a singer and rapper with the headlining group G.L.O.A.T. More...

'Every missing person is somebody's child

Marie Martin of Henderson knows her brother was no angel — he had issues with drugs and alcohol and the law over in Cherokee County knew his name long before he disappeared. But after 50-year-old Jimmy Charles Scott vanished on Nov. More...

Banker sentenced to federal prison for fraud TYLER - A local banker has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. C. Hugh Bowden Jr., 51, of Gladewater pleaded guilty to an Information on Feb. 26 charging him with

TYLER - A local banker has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. More...

Liberty City, Cross Roads water corporations receive grants

The Sabine River Authority of Texas has awarded Liberty City Water Supply Corporation and Cross Roads Special Utility District $10,000 Community Assistance Grants as part of its FY- 2009 Economic Development Initiative. More...