Posted 12:22 pm Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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East Texas - MID DAY UPDATE
THE TYLER CITY COUNCIL TODAY ACCEPTED A $189,000 STATE GRANT TO EXTEND A HIKE-AND-BIKE TRAIL IN A CITY PARK. THE PROJECT, WHICH WILL GET UNDER WAY IN ABOUT THREE MONTHS, WILL ADD A 3.75-MILE CRUSHED GRANIT TRAIL TO WOLDERT PARK IN NORTH TYLER. THE CITY WILL CHIP IN $47,000 FOR THE PROJECT.
RETIRED DENTIST BOBBY NICHOLS, WHO IS FACING A MURDER CHARGE IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF HIS WIFE, WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE TODAY. NICHOLS, 76, WAS BACK IN JAIL ON A $3 MILLION BOND THIS WEEKEND AFTER VIOLATING THE TERMS OF HIS BOND WHEN HE BOUGHT ALCOHOL.
A MAN HUNT FOR AN ALLEGED RAPIST IN VAN ZANDT COUNTY ENDED TODAY IN THE ARREST OF CHRISTOPHER LEE PRUITT, 29, OF HUNT COUNTY. PRUITT IS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN TUESDAY NEAR MYRTLE SPRINGS.
MORNING TELEGRAPH REPORTER KENNETH DEAN WILL BE DOING SOMETHING TODAY INVOLVING A BURNING BUILDING. LOOK FOR THE STORY IN SUNDAY'S TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH. NO WORD YET ON WHETHER A KITTEN WILL BE INVOLVED.
IN STATE NEWS TODAY, TEXAGS.COM IS REPORTING THAT ENNIS JUDGE LEE JOHNSON BOASTED ON FACEBOOK ABOUT A SPEEDING TICKET GIVEN TO HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER AND FORMER TYLER RESIDENT JOHNNY MANZIEL. THE TICKET FOR THE ALLEGED VIOLATION WAS GIVEN BY THE ENNIS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
LOOK FOR THIS WEEK'S PLEASANT WEATHER TO CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND, WITH LOTS OF SUN WITH SOME SCATTERED CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES RANGING BETWEEN THE LOW 40S AND LOW 70S.
AND LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, IN TODAY’S ATWOODS CIRCULAR YOU’LL FIND 350-POUND LIGHT-DUTY DUMP CARDS, PROTEIN TUBS, PET SWEATERS, SOLAR SALT PELLETS AND THE BUY OF THE WEEK: SIX PACKS OF MEN’S WHITE OR GREY CREW SOCKS FOR ONLY $4.99.
