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Red Cross and Longview Fire Department combine forces to make residences safer

The Longview Fire Department will install smoke alarms in approximately 100 private residential homes. The homes lacking smoke alarms were identified by the American Red Cross and Meals on Wheels Ministry, Inc.

State Board of Education wants to minimize Islam in schools

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The State Board of Education has adopted a resolution that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks.

Firefighter charged with arson

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - A volunteer firefighter in Texas has been charged with starting two wildfires - including a 2,000-acre blaze that caused severe burns to one of his colleagues.

Agents thwart smugglers, nab $2 million worth of dope

EDINBURG, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents of the Rio Grande Valley Sector kept busy Wednesday seizing more than 2,500 pounds of marijuana in three separate incidents.

Two Longview residents sentenced in federal meth case

TYLER, Texas – Two Longview, Texas residents have been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. The sentencing hearings were held on Sep.

Woman attacked, robbed at apartment complex in Tyler

Tyler PD dispatch received a report of a Robbery at the Bullard Crossing Apartment Complex.

FBI raids compound in Rusk County

On Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at approximately 5:00am, the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office in joint with the Federal Bureau of Investigations executed a federal search and arrest warrant.

Police investigating motorcyle incident

On 09-22-2010, at approximately 9:46 p.m., a Tyler Police patrol officer observed a motorcycle disregard the stop sign at Amherst Drive and Donnybrook Avenue. The patrol officer attempted to effect a traffic stop on the motorcycle.

Police catch teens who robbed Tyler business

Tyler police are seeking the whereabouts of a third suspect involved in the Aggravated Robbery of Metro PCS business. The Suspect is identified as Markest Montrel Mason, B/M, 07/25/1991, also of Dallas, Texas.

Missing woman found by family

A woman reported missing by her family has been located.