‘I didn’t kill anybody,’ said defendant Cheyenne Bigelo who risked death penalty
March 20, 2026
Artist, Linda Lucas Hardy mid-life charge earns international fame
March 17, 2026
Wagon train brought Baptist pioneers west
March 13, 2026
Mt. Vernon, Texas Jail break sparks shoot out
March 10, 2026
Violence, murder ruled Thunder Road
March 6, 2026
Dr. Palmore Currey’s Legacy includes the gift of fire
March 3, 2026
Biographer preserved the fading legend of Catfish Smith
February 27, 2026
National championship Coach Robert Caskey had game day with Don Meredith
February 20, 2026
Farmers sons marched to war
February 17, 2026
Business, banking and baseball back when
February 13, 2026
Coach Parker shaped community, Congressman says
February 10, 2026
Coffee Culture
February 2, 2026
Texas Milk plant dominated city skyline when Mt. Pleasant, Texas launched plan to save family farms
January 9, 2026
Fact or fiction: century old government study probed practice of water witching
January 6, 2026
Speeding whiskey runner loses 100 mph high speed chase in Northeast Texas
January 2, 2026
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Cheyenne Bigelo Above photo, coming out of a bummer year of radiation, chemo and the loss of her mentor and...
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Above photo, Linda Lucas Hardy poses with her cover illustration for one of 17 books featuring her work. She’s been...
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Above photo, in the 1930’s, the Gladewater Baptist Church baptized at “the Cotton Gin Pool” near Crooks Store. From The...
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From The East Texas Journal, March 2022 By Hudson Old, Publisher Ed’s note: The following story of the reign and...
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From The East Texas Journal, July 2012 By Hudson Old, Publisher FORT WORTH, TEXAS – Dating back to the 1930’s,...
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By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher He gave us fire.Not a scout fire, not a bonfire -- the woods on fire, a...
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Above photo, Glen Slaughter played for Catfish Smith, an athlete and coach who played semi-pro ball for the Mt. Pleasant...
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Above photo' the centerfold shot of his Aggie Yearbook featured Robert Caskey’s A&M roommate tackling SMU quarterback Don Meredith at...
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Above photo, meat wasn’t a staple when Alfred Cox was one of 13 children growing up on Titus County tenant...
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Above photo, Morris Rolston, Marvin Coffee and Bugs Cross played for the Mt. Pleasant Cubs, a sandlot semipro baseball club...
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Above photo, World War II interrupted the coaching career Sam Parker resumed in 1946 when he came home to...
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Above photo, the helicopter atop Huey’s Coffee made Joe Dalby’s one-time Mt. Pleasant Studebaker dealership a U.S. 67 a landmark...
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From East Texas Journal, February 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS -- The town's business community depended on...
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From The East Texas Journal, January 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher So it’s the Sunday morning gathering of the tribe,...
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Above photo, if you can figure out why an outlaw bent on slipping through Texas with an illegal load of...
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