4 dead, 9 injured in multi-vehicle crash in Hopkins County

The defense attorney, Kurt Noell, said the crash into the chain link fence and the way it injured and killed the victim was a “freak occurrence.”

The Central Fire Department was without power as well.

Industrial park will be in area of I-20 in norther part of Smith County.

This week marks two decades since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, where seven crew members were killed. Twenty years later, we remember Columbia and a famous photo of one of the most devastating events in East Texas history, taken by a doctor from Tyler.

Roxanne Stevenson is the executive director of the Martin House in Longview. She says the growing numbers also can be seen in East Texas. “We’re seeing cases of more children sexually acting out against younger children. We’re seeing higher incidents of children accessing child pornography. And so we really need to develop new programs that can stop abuse before it even starts.”