East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Thursday, Oct. 8: burn bans in four 936-area counties, no road closures, no rivers at flood stage, no active weather alerts, and lakes running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Wednesday, Oct. 7: burn bans in four 936-area counties, no rivers at flood stage, no active weather alerts, and all five major lakes running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
TxDOT is taking public comments through Monday, Oct. 12, on proposed route concepts for a future I-14 corridor from Rogers to Huntsville. Comments can be sent by email, mail, voicemail or text, or left on TxDOT’s online comment map.
A federal grand jury in Tyler indicted the former executive director and former office manager of Habitat for Humanity of Deep East Texas on Oct. 5 for conspiracy to commit bank fraud over an alleged four-year scheme that drew unauthorized loans and a $488,000 line of credit on the Lufkin nonprofit.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Tuesday, Oct. 6: burn bans in effect in five 936-area counties, no rivers at flood stage, no active NWS alerts, and all five major lakes running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
A licensed vocational nurse working inside the San Jacinto County Jail was arrested on felony drug charges after a sheriff’s K9 alerted to a controlled substance in her office. Texas Board of Nursing records show her LVN license, issued in April 2009 and carrying multistate compact privileges, remains current.
A Lufkin man is being held on $500,000 in bonds after Angelina County deputies say he fired seven or eight shots at a home on Ted Trout Drive, less than an hour after he threatened the resident with a handgun.
TxDOT’s Lufkin District is taking online comments from Oct. 13 through Nov. 6 on the first of three interactive maps for its district bicycle plan, covering state roads in Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and six other East Texas counties.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying an SUV involved in a deadly hit-and-run near FM 1485 and Willaby Road. Deputies say the vehicle likely has front-right damage; tips can go to 936-538-5900 or Crime Stoppers at 800-392-7867.
A death row inmate convicted of a 2000 murder inside a Silsbee convenience store is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Huntsville Unit, while a clemency campaign pushes back on grounds of intellectual disability and mental illness.