Bob Hallmark
Longview Bureau Chief
East Texas
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Bob Hallmark is a longtime reporter for KLTV 7. He grew up in Aldine, a south Texas town. At age 18, he joined the U.S. Navy. He later attended Chapman University in Orange, California.
Before moving to the Tyler-Longview area, Bob worked for Major League Baseball as network director of the Houston Astros Baseball Team. He was also network producer for Houston's International Hockey League, the Houston Aeros Hockey Team. Bob has also worked for radio/television stations in Boise, Idaho.
Bob is married to Norma Hallmark and has two sons: Jacob and Luke. Bob loves the outdoors. He owns a small farm in Hawkins where he raises livestock, including horses. He also does a little farming.
Education
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|By Bob Hallmark
A small East Texas school continues to come up with winners on a big stage.
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At the Gregg County Commissioners Court meeting Thursday, numerous veterans took to the podium to speak to the members about the difficult conditions they face when trying to get help form the veterans services office in Longview.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Bob Hallmark
The owner of a barber shop said the victim came up to him outside the shop bleeding and asking for help.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2023 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
A veteran’s dream, to offer a place where fellow veterans can find friends and healing, has become a reality in one East Texas county.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 4:36 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
A raffle along with arts and crafts sales were held at VFW Post 4002 in Longview.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 4:12 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
A three-day event that celebrates the human body as an “artist’s canvas” continued in Longview today. The Ark-La-Tex Tattoo and Art Expo is going on at the Maude Cobb activity center.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
An FFA team from a small East Texas town goes to the largest livestock show in the world, and comes away with big winners.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 2:11 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
An emergency drill held at an East Texas high school campus was critical practice for those who would respond in the event of public exposure to a biological agent or disease outbreak.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 6:46 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
A different kind of 'state of the county' address today for citizens of one East Texas county.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 8:14 AM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
With no solution yet, homeowners are left with just finding ways to co-exist.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 3:36 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
Initially thinking it may be a case of individuals sneaking in and stealing the fuel, the county put security cameras in place but found no evidence, and the fuel was still disappearing.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
With interest rates, inflation and the cost of new and existing homes, it’s a real financial challenge for the average East Texan to find housing in their price range.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 4:05 PM CDT
|By Bob Hallmark
Freddie Fitzgerald, a worker at the advocacy center, said it’s an issue that must be addressed no matter what is going on in the world around us.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 3:48 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
An FDA regulation, set to go into effect in June, is not a welcome change for some East Texas ranchers.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:05 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Efforts by one East Texas city to create a police officers' memorial have hit a snag. The city of Hawkins and the chamber of commerce are desperately trying to find family members for a fallen officer from 60 years ago.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 11:22 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
“I had a car accident when I was 4 years old that paralyzed me, and I had another car accident that re-injured me at 9 years old,” she says. We were with her when she got her service dog five years ago. But she always had a love of horses, and wanted to find a way to ride again.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2023 at 5:04 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
An East Texas woman, diagnosed with stage four cancer herself, is holding a support event for other East Texans going through the same thing.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2023 at 6:51 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
In the middle of a martial arts class in Holly Lake Ranch is 17-year-old Christian Garrison, a very tenacious young man.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 3:07 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
City of Longview Public Information Officer Richard Yeakley said the hope is that key components can be obtained soon.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 9:07 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
KLTV’s Bob Hallmark talks with one homeowner about the problems that have arisen.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 7:04 AM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
As the country continues to recover from the pandemic period that stalled almost every business, East Texans are traveling again, and many are returning to the rails.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 at 2:14 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
East Texas tour groups had the chance to see how technology and production come together today as part of the “Big Techs Industry Tour” taking place in Longview.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 7:02 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
You may not see them every day in East Texas, but we often see their aftermath: feral hogs.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 3:08 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Longview evangelist Marisa Ward talks about how she saw other cancer patients struggling and decided to help.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
“Yeah, you could get a little earlier start on some things. Fruit trees, blackberries. Dormant stuff can go in the ground now,” says Upshur County fruit grower Mike Hill, owner of Hill’s Farms.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2023 at 6:13 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
East Texas shelters are credited with helping those who are homelss and needy with food, shelter and clothing. But, one East Texas man says they did nothing less than save his life, and it all came about because of a pair of broken glasses.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2023 at 1:09 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Nostalgia met progress when former students got to walk the halls of their long-closed East Texas school. If you’ve driven through Gladewater on Highway 80, you’ve probably seen the old school campus on the west side. That property has now been sold.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 6:44 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
For over 40 years Randy Kennedy has been serving his community, the last 26 as the chief of police in the city of Hughes Springs. Instead of a standard retirement observance, the community decided to give him a different kind of ‘thank you’ for his service. Citizens have likened Chief Kennedy to a real life Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, with a signature cowboy hat, homespun charm and a quiet, friendly demeanor.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:03 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
An East Texas restaurant manager is warning the public to be watchful for counterfeit bills being passed.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 8:41 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Demerson’s presentation showed that as of October 2022, Texas employers hired 546,000 new employees, but there were 869,000 job openings.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
As the long shadows of winter begin to fade, it means planting time for farmers and gardeners will be soon, and more people are expected to be planting their own gardens this upcoming season in East Texas.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
From repaving roads and water system upgrades to bridge and transit projects, and of course broadband internet, federal money is available to build and repair infrastructure, and some of it will be coming to East Texas.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 3:16 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Though welcomed by farmers, the steady rain for the past two weeks in East Texas has created a muddy mess for some homeowners and landowners.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 4:26 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
The team is also armed with new technology that will hopefully help bring them closer to solving the case.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
An East Texas women’s shelter that had often struggled with financial difficulty gets a huge surprise from a benefactor.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 9:02 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Two years removed from the height of the pandemic, an East Texas law enforcement agency still finds itself struggling to fill empty positions.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2023 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
With the economy, gas prices and inflation, East Texas cattle, pig and chicken producers also have to deal with rising feed prices.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2023 at 3:58 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark and Brittany Hunter
A private, single-engine plane has crashed near Gladewater Municipal Airport, leaving four passengers with minor injuries.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2023 at 5:28 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War conflict, and an East Texas city held a commemoration of that today.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 6:30 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
In the aftermath of the East Texas ice storm comes the process of cleaning up. With thousands of trees and limbs down across Tyler, it may be a back-breaking process, unless of course your East Texas neighbors decide not to let you do it alone.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 6:33 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
The loss of power has forced many East Texans to find a way to live through the cold.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 7:45 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Homeowners George and Marie Hanson talk about losing some of the old trees to the ice.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 5:29 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
An up close experience with African wildlife, ‘really’ up close, and exploring the sheer-cliffs of the Colorado river in Traveling Texas.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 5:16 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
It was a simple benefit spaghetti meal that meant an awful lot to Holly Lake Firefighter Doug Attaway: a gesture of support called “His Fight is Our Fight.”
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:32 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
The Texas A&M forest service says timber theft is a very real problem that could face anyone who has land with timber on it.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:33 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Working with the Kilgore Economic Development Corporation, Skeeter will be expanding their operations to add new manufacturing facilities.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2023 at 7:37 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Things that crawl, things that creep, things that slither, are all on display this weekend for prospective East Texas pet owners, or for people who just want to go look at the fascinating and educational exhibits vendors have set up. It's happening at 1123 Jaycee Drive, on Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:34 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Law enforcement in some East Texas counties say it’s a problem that never seems to go away: Animal abandonment or dumping.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 10:20 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Gregg County Texas A&M Agri-Life extension agent Shanequa Davis and Panola County peach grower Jason Martin talk about how important the chill hour is.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 9:58 PM CST
|By Bob Hallmark
Inflation, employment, energy and the economy. What is the forecast for the country and for East Texas?
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