Entertainment

Former Lufkin disc jockey Bill Young writes that it was hearing singers like Little Richard and Fats Domino blasting into the piney woods from Nashville that made him want to get on the radio himself so he could play that music right here at home.

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He's gone after President Barack Obama in the last few weeks, but could real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star Donald Trump actually make it to the White House? Maybe.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Poll released Tuesday, which asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who they support for the 2010 GOP presidential nomination, Trump tied former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee for first place, with 19 percent of the vote.

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Television personality Glenn Beck announced today that he will be ending his daily 5PM program on Fox News.

According to the NY Times, Fox News and Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties."

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She's used to breaking headlines, but today, Katie Couric is making some of her own.

According to a report from the AP, Couric is leaving her historic anchor post at 'CBS Evening News' after joining the program less than five years ago, in 2006. Her next move: a syndicated talk show, which is expected to launch in 2012.

Couric's contract with CBS ends on June 4, though no word on when her official last broadcast will be.

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A bill coming up for debate in the Texas Senate would expand a state fund now used to lure sporting events to Texas, so it could be used to lure events of all kinds to Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

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With two Academy Awards, seven marriages, a successful HIV/AIDS awareness foundation and a lifelong fashion icon, Elizabeth Taylor will never be forgotten.
Oscar winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died today at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital following hospitalization for congestive heart failure. She was 79.

"She was surrounded by her children: Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton," Taylor's publicist, Sally Morrison, said in a statement.

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Those wild and wacky hosts of the popular cable TV show "American Pickers" recently spent the day "picking" through a familiar junk yard on hwy 59 north at Redlands, just north of Lufkin.

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Former TV actor and Congressman Fred Grandy says he was fired from his job as a talk radio host because of pressure from CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Grandy says it happened after his wife had some choice words for radical Islam on his radio show.

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