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Lufkin IHOP Employee Killed By Lightning Strike

Rick St. Nick — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:24:44 +0000

Meshell Foxworth was likely on a break outside the Lufkin IHOP restaurant where she worked, when a lightning strike ended her life late Tuesday night.

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Lufkin Gets a NICU

Jen Austin — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:00:14 +0000

Chances are, you know someone who has benefited from the NICU - that's Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit.

I have two friends in Dallas who gave birth to baby boys that needed a little extra help getting started in life. One spent a month in the NICU, and one spent nine days there. Both are doing just fine now! One is 7 now and the other just turned 2. They started out their lives hooked up to tubes and on respirators, and they're just as happy and healthy as every other kid now.

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East Texas Kids Use Construction Project to Overcome Past

Jen Austin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:13:14 +0000

YouthBuild students have been teaming up with Nacogdoches County Habitat for Humanity to build a home, and in the process they're learning more than just construction skills.

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Hudson, Lufkin, and Cushing High Schools Tops in Deep East Texas According to Report

Danny Merrell — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:36:29 +0000

U.S. News and World Report has released its yearly rankings of high schools in America as well as breaking them down state by state. Some of the factors that they base these rankings on include college readiness, math and reading proficiency, and teacher to student ratio.

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Local Company With 100-Year History To Keep Its Name

Jen Austin — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:52:42 +0000

More on a story we brought you earlier this week...

General Electric is getting more involved in the energy industry and is in the process of buying Lufkin Industries in a deal valued at around $3.3 billion dollars. The CEO tells KTRE that Lufkin Industries will keep its name.

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Community Leader Dies in Lufkin

Jen Austin — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:14:34 +0000

A woman known for helping others in need in Lufkin passed away over the weekend.

A wake will happen this Friday evening, with the funeral on Saturday.

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City of Lufkin Bans Smoking

Rick St. Nick — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:31:26 +0000

This is a follow-up to a story I wrote on April 2. Hang on a sec - let me put out my cigarette.

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Lufkin Police Want Help Finding a Kidnapper

Jen Austin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:24:51 +0000

A 6-year old girl was kidnapped on Tuesday, and eventually released near Hudson, and Lufkin police are still looking for the kidnapper. The girl was put through quite an ordeal but was unhurt, and now police concentrate on the search for the suspect.

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The State's First Lady is in East Texas Today

Jen Austin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:37:18 +0000

The Texas Main Street Program is expanding, and the First Lady of Texas is visiting three East Texas towns today mark the occasion.

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Basketball Game To Feature Lufkin and Nacogdoches All-Stars

Jen Austin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:54:38 +0000

High School basketball players from Angelina and Nacogdoches counties will play for bragging rights in the upcoming Pineywoods Showdown.

TV station KTRE puts on the event, and they say the date will be April 25th at Panther Gym at Lufkin Middle School.

Lucas Holloway of Zavalla will coach the Angelina Count

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Was a Lufkin Man Making Moonshine?

Jen Austin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:54:40 +0000

A tip this week led police to a Lufkin man's garage, where they found big tanks and barrels and other alcohol-making equipment, and around 200 gallons of "moonshine" was seized.

The man says he had been planning a commercial distillery for downtown Lufkin for about two years, and was still working to get the proper permits.

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Meeting Planned This Week in Nacogdoches to Talk About I-69

Jen Austin — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:20:59 +0000

After years of planning, studying, talking, and more studying, I-69 in East Texas is closer to becoming a reality.

The final proposal has been presented to the Texas Dept. of Transportation, and now the project is entering into the public interaction phase.

There's a meeting planned for Tuesday in Nacogdoches to gather more public input and share the plan for the new Interstate.

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Lufkin May Go Smoke Free

Jen Austin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:12:28 +0000

Lufkin already has an ordinance that bans smoking at city parks, and limits smoking to restaurants with designated public areas. Under a new proposed ban that the city council looked at this week, the ban would stretch wider and there would be no smoking at city or county facilities, hospitals, stores, or restaurants.

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Census Bureau Says Many Lufkin Kids are Living in Poverty

Jen Austin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:42:12 +0000

New Census Bureau data says nearly 1 in 3 kids in Lufkin are living in poverty.

That's well higher than the average in the state of Texas, according to the new data.

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Lufkin Animal Shelter Receives National Buzz Online

Jen Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:12:55 +0000

A few days ago, Stacey Faulkner tweeted a photograph of a dog potentially being mishandled by workers at a Lufkin Animal Shelter. That caught the attention of not only her own Twitter Followers, but also the attention of singer Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20.

The firestorm led to an investigation into the animal's treatment at Kurth Memorial Animal Shelter.

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Serial Killer Arrested in Lufkin Commits Suicide in Jail

Jen Austin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:13:53 +0000

It’s a story that has made national news. Earlier this week, accused serial killer Israel Keyes was found dead in his jail cell in Alaska after an apparent suicide.

He’s accused of abducting, assualting, killing, and dismembering the body of an 18-year old barista who was kidnapped from a coffee stand last February.

In March, Keyes was arrested at the parking lot of a Cotton Patch Cafe in Lufkin after trying to use Samantha Koenig’s stolen debit card.

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Lufkin Police Need Your Help in Finding 'Animals' Stolen in Commercial Burglary

Rick St. Nick — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:52:19 +0000

Attention East Texas:

Be on the lookout for nearly $4,000 worth of taxidermied animals that were stolen from a Lufkin building under construction in the 1900 block of Denman Avenue.

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Lufkin Panthers Head to Third Round of State Playoffs, Support Them This Weekend in Waco

MarieMC — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:22:25 +0000

The Lufkin Panthers defeated the Pflugerville Panthers last Saturday and advanced to the third round of the State Playoffs. They will play Plano West on Saturday, December 1st at 2:00 PM at Waco ISD. If you want to see the boys in action, tickets are $25.

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Lufkin Saves Tree Seeds, Gives Another Texas Ecosystem New Life

Jen Austin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:59:13 +0000

It was a little more than a year ago that the most destructive wildfire in Texas history destroyed much of the vegetation in Bastrop County near Austin. It was a major setback for the renowned Lost Pines ecosystem. The fire covered 32,400-acres, destroyed 1,660 homes and killed 1.5 million trees.

Now, Lufkin is coming to the rescue. Eleven-hundred pounds of tree seeds that were stored in Lufkin and almost thrown into the land fill at one point, will help rebuild the Bastrop ecosystem.

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'Toys For Tots' Comes to Lufkin and Nacogdoches Region

Rick St. Nick — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:26:13 +0000

If you happen to see some military troop carrier trucks with a conspicuously looking banner draped across it that reads "MARINE CORPS RESERVE...Toys For Tots", that's the place to hand over a newly unwrapped gift to be distributed to less fortunate children around East Texas.

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