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A pastor was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting at an East Texas church Sunday after the pastor confronted a man who had hidden from police in the church overnight, a local sheriff said.
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Hospitals in the region have surpassed the 15% threshold for COVID-19 patients, but weren't part of the first wave of vaccine doses.
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Three units across the state will be at least temporarily closed this month, according to the Texas prison system. The agency hopes it will help with dangerously low staffing levels.
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Holly Barlow-Austin was arrested in Texarkana in April 2019 for a parole violation. The 46-year-old died two months later at a hospital — one in a string of deaths that have led to lawsuits and investigations of LaSalle’s Corrections operations.
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More than 60 monuments that celebrate the Confederacy and its military men have come down in cities all across America. But more than 1,700 remain, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first Texan in Congress to be diagnosed with COVID-19.Gohmert was…
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The Barbers Hill Independent School District forbids male students from wearing their hair long. Two Black students were suspended when they refused to cut their dreadlocks.
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Another lingering relic of the Jim Crow era was being ripped from the ground this week in a small East Texas town.Municipal crews were digging up a fence…
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The Tyler ISD School Board voted unanimously to change the names of its two high schools, currently named for Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and John…
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More than a half century after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, there remains little tradition of protest in East Texas, and scant experience with organizing.
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Three Texas towns recently voted in favor of anti-abortion ordinances, extending the reach of a campaign to create “sanctuary cities for the unborn”…
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Updated Nov. 7, 2019 An East Texas jury found Wells Fargo willingly infringed on mobile check deposit patents held by USAA. A jury found unanimously in...