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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking information on the 2013 murder of 51-year-old Lillian Desiree ...

The closest actively-infectious measles cases to East Texas are in Lamar County, where a total of 17 positive cases have been confirmed.

According to the sheriff's office, Sheriff Kevin Bridger, his deputies and other agencies are searching of US Highway 80 east ...

The person in question threatened the teacher with violence while demanding she raise their grade in the class.

Raiden, a youth runner for the nonprofit Running 4 Heroes, honored Pollard by running one mile while carrying the blue line ...

UT Health East Texas partnered with Four Seasons Women’s Health on Monday, advancing their skills in personalized care for ...

The district is working quickly to find someone to take over the hospital, which serves the East Texas town of Trinity, about ...

LUFKIN — Saturday could be the last municipal election Texas will ever hold in May. And in Lovelady, a community of nearly 600 people in East Texas, they’ll end the evening with a shrimp boil ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Every year the Museum of East Texas gives Lufkin ISD students from all grade levels the chance to ...

Elizabeth Walker with Region 7 Education Service Center said 22 teams from 11 schools across East Texas competed in Super Smash Bros. together.