Tuufuli Named to Second Team All-Southland, First in Division I Era for Lion Volleyball
December 4, 2024 – East Texas A&M University volleyball player Kitana Tuufuli was named Second Team all-Southland Conference, becoming the first player to earn all-conference honors in the program’s Division I era. Tuufuli (St. Hedwig, Texas) was named to the seven-player second team all-conference list as the Lions went 7-9 in SLC action to tie for seventh place. On the season, Tuufuli totaled 303 kills, 33 blocks and hit...
Assistant City Manager States Applicant Has Withdrawn Zoning Request
December 3, 2024 – In an email received by KSST around 3pm Tuesday December 3, 2024, Tory Niewiadomski stated that the applicant for the recently approved zoning change has with drawn his application. Niewiadomski is the head of the Zoning and Planning board that approved the change during their November meeting. The Board recommended the City Council approve the change at the December 3rd meeting. I wanted to make you aware...
CHRISTUS Health Breaks Ground on Multi-specialty Clinic in Sulphur Springs
December 2, 2024 – SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – CHRISTUS Health has broken ground on a new multi-specialty clinic in Sulphur Springs that will expand compassionate and exceptional care to the area. Located adjacent to CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs on Airport Road, construction has begun on the 11,000 square-foot CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic building with a projected completion date of spring 2026. Tyler-based HGR...
Blue Santa 2024
December 3, 2024 – Friday kicks off the annual Blue Santa Toy Drive in Hopkins County. Here’s your chance to help provide Christmas Cheer to children in Hopkins County that might not otherwise receive any Christmas gifts. Don’t forget the BBQ provided by CJ Duffey. Unlike past years, the weather will be fair and cool. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy or some folding money to Walmart in Sulphur Springs. All donations...
Iranian Nationals Apprehended at Texas Border
Special interest illegal aliens from Middle Eastern countries continue to swarm the southwest land border. By Will Biagini | December 2, 2024 – As massive caravans of migrants continue to push northward in Mexico, foreign nationals of “special interest” from Middle Eastern countries are now infiltrating Texas. Incoming border czar Tom Homan announced Saturday on X that seven special interest illegal aliens were embedded among a...
Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Death Sentence For Murderer Who Killed a Police Officer While Carrying Drugs Across State Lines
LONGVIEW – Gregory Newson was sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in 2019. Deputy Dickerson On December 31, 2019, Deputy William Christopher Dickerson was murdered by Newson during a traffic stop in Panola County around 2:00 AM while traveling through East Texas from his home in Shreveport, Louisiana. Newson was transporting a large quantity of marijuana, $5,500 in cash, and an illegally possessed AR-15 with a 60-round...
Lake Country CASA Cookie Walk
December 2, 2024 – It’s that time of the year. The Cookie Walk!
Big Bend Ranch State Park Search and Rescue
December 2, 2024 – This is an ongoing situation and initial information is subject to change. Updates will be provided as information becomes available. Nov. 27, 12:30 p.m.: A multi-agency search and rescue operation is underway at Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBRSP) for Debra Staples, 56, of Roanoke. Staples was last seen Tuesday, Nov. 26 around 9:30 a.m. at the West Contrabando Trailhead wearing cycling attire. Her husband...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, December 1, 2024
KNOWN!! Friends, read with me! “You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.” Psalm 139:1-5 NIV “The LORD your God is with you, the...
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for Illegally Conspiring to Manipulate Energy Markets, Driving Up Costs for Consumers
November 27, 2024 – Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices. Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States, thereby...
