ATHENS—Randy Williams of Staunton, Illinois, finally broke the ice: He caught Lake Fork’s first Toyota ShareLunker of the season on Tuesday, March 16.
The fish weighed 13.0 pounds and was caught in three feet of water on a Senko.
The good news for Lake Fork anglers was that the water temperature was 58 degrees. After unseasonably cold, cloudy weather, a few days of sunshine warmed the water and apparently encouraged bass to move to shallower water in preparation for spawning.
The fish is the 244th fish from Lake Fork to be entered into the ShareLunker program. It was 25.5 inches long and 22 inches in girth.
ATHENS—Michael Banks of Jacksonville had a day off and decided to go fishing March 9. “I was just looking for a day out,” he said. “It would have been a great day if I had not caught a fish.”
Fishing from his kayak, he only got one bite, but it turned out to be a 13.6-pound largemouth bass that is the fourth ShareLunker from the lake and is only a few hundredths of a pound under the lake record. The lake record, caught in 1995, weighed 13.73 pounds.
Tyler news media is reporting a DPS officer from Wood County has been shot in the face. KLTV in Tyler reported late Sunday evening that a DPS officer was shot while assisting Wood County deputies in serving a warrant near FM-1801. The trooper was taken to ETMC in Tyler were he was reportedly in good condition.
The shooter is believed to be Timothy Parmer, 45. Parmer was booked in to the Wood County Jail just after 2 a.m. Monday morning charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapon. He is being held on a $50,000 bond.
Under the authority of the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Department, the SPCA of Texas seized 63 head of Longhorn cattle and three donkeys today from a property in rural Van Zandt County. Additionally, approximately 50 dead Longhorns were found, having died where they stood. Some of them were then drug to the creek on the back of the property. Some of the deceased animals died in the other cattle's water source.
The cattle, which all appear to be lethargic and dangerously underweight, did not have access to food and only had access to a water source that was contaminated by the dead cattle.
"The condition that these animals are in did not happen overnight; it took months," said Ann Barnes, Senior Vice President of Operations. "It will take months--and a lot of good food and care--to get them back into condition."
MINEOLA - The rumors have been circulating for weeks, but it was not until ABC's Extreme Home Makeover bus pulled into town Thursday, that Mineola was guaranteed 15 minutes (or maybe 60 minutes) of fame.
While the stars of the show began filming at a home off County Road 2220, cars began stopping along US-69 and drivers jumping out to watch the production across a fence. Volunteers began showing up at a staging area around 6 a.m. and crews began shuttling them to and from the home site. The shuttles are expected to run 24 hours a day for the next several days.
The family chosen for the rebuild is the Carr family. Mike and Katrina and their four children will spend the next few days on vacation while dozens of volunteers tear down and then rebuild a home. The finished house is expected to be revealed on March 4th.
Fire broke out at a Mineola home around 2 a.m. Thursday morning.
Fire crews arrived to find the house on Front Street fully engulfed. No one was injured in the fire and the investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.
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ATF officials Friday released sketches of three "persons of interest" in the East Texas church fire arsons.
Officials are asking that anyone with information regarding the fires or the people identified from these sketches to call the ATF hotline at 888-ATF-FIRE.
ATHENS—Randy Williams of Staunton, Illinois, finally broke the ice: He caught Lake Fork’s first Toyota ShareLunker of the season on Tuesday, March 16.
Tyler news media is reporting a DPS officer from Wood County has been shot in the face. KLTV in Tyler reported late Sunday evening that a DPS officer was shot while assisting Wood County deputies in serving a warrant near FM-1801. The trooper was taken to ETMC in Tyler were he was reportedly in good condition.
MINEOLA - One person was injured in a two-car accident Thursday in Mineola. The accident happened just around 6:15 p.m. on US-69, south of downtown.