National Weather Service Confirms 4 Tornadoes
The National Weather Service confirms that four tornadoes touched down in Tyler, Hardin and Jasper Counties Wednesday.
Roger Erickson of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says a category EF1 tornado touched down near the Kirbyville airport and traveled nearly 3 miles on the ground,
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Redistricting Arguments Get Help
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U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R - Ennis, TX
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U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R - Ennis, will intervene in the redistricting case in San Antonio.
The panel of three federal judges in San Antonio approved Barton’s request today, the same day the congressman asked to be included in the case.
Barton was vocal about redistricting when the Legislature took the matter up last year. Barton had said that he was opposed to making one of Texas’s four new congressional districts into a Hispanic opportunity district in North Texas. (Because of population growth in Texas outlined in the 2010 census - mostly due to Hispanic growth - Texas is
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Perry's Prospects Purportedly Poor
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Governor Rick Perry
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AUSTIN, TEXAS — A recent poll shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry's approval rating here in the Lone Star State are at a 10-year low and more than half of Texans are looking for someone else to fill the Governor's office come next election .
The telephone survey of 806 Texans conducted Jan. 21-24 shows 40 percent of Texans say that they approve of how Perry is doing as governor, a 10-point drop from a year ago. 40 percent said they want someone else to have the highest office in Texas.
The poll found 53 percent said they don't want Perry to run for a fourth full term in 2014, and 45
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US Supreme Court will decide Texas inmate's fate
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Rodrigo Hernandez faces lethal injection tonight
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The U.S. Supreme Court is will decide if a convicted killer should be spared the needle tonight in the Texas death chamber for the brutal rape and murder of a 38-year-old woman in San Antonio nearly 20 years ago.
Rodrigo Hernandez faces lethal injection tonight in Huntsville for abducting, raping and strangling Susan Verstegen. Her body was found dumped in a garbage can behind a San Antonio church in February 1994.
Hernandez was linked to the gruesome killing some 8 years after it happened when he submitted a DNA sample as a parole requirement in Michigan where he was serving time
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Jasper Man Arrested, Charged With Child Abuse
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courtesy of Jasper County Jail
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Jasper Country Sheriffs officers arrested 34 year old Elvin Tyrone Collins Tuesday, after Jasper County Sheriff's Department took a statement about an injury to a child case which was reported by a local daycare. The two year old little boy had apparently had been beaten severely with a belt according to the report. Jasper Sheriff Mitchell Newman said, "Pictures of the child were taken and the child had bruising on the child's legs, butt, face and hand. His hand was also swollen."
Collins later on admitted to having beaten the boy. He is currently being held in the Jasper County Jail on
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Home invasions are at an all - time high!
KWUD is proud to welcome to its family of advertisers Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran Mark Thorn, owner of Top-Flight Security. This state-of-the-art on-line security website has made securing your home or business as easy as “point and click”!
Mark has taken his years of military experience as Air Department Office Manager, Flight Deck Aircraft Director and Primary Flight Control Director and turned his attention to keeping all of Southeast Texas prepared and protected.
Currently home invasions are at an all- time high and with unemployment at its highest in decades,
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Swap Shop Returns Due To Public Demand!
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Tom Clay
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The listeners have spoken, and KWUD is proud to announce the return of the Daily Swap shop to Real Country. This half hour of conversation, buying and selling will be on the air every weekday at 9:30AM starting Monday. Hosted by morning personality Tom Clay, the people of Tyler County and beyond will have the opportunity to call in with items to buy, sell, or trade. Tom will also converse with anyone and everyone about any topic that comes to mind. The phone number is 409-283-8500 and you are invited to call in, listen in and join the conversation and the commerce that will be the Daily
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Become a KWUD Country Reporter!
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If you see news in Tyler County, we want to know about it. If you have a Smartphone, an iPhone, a digital camera or are just handy with your computer, we invite you to be part of the KWUD News Team. Of course we don't expect you to do it for free! If you send us a picture, or a story that we use on KWUDRADIO.COM, then you will be rewarded with a KWUD Country gift certificate from one of our many participating sponsors.
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DPS graduates 57 new Highway Patrol troopers
Fifty-seven men and women became Texas Highway Patrol troopers this morning after reciting the state’s law enforcement oath and receiving their badges during a ceremony in Austin.
Texas State Representative Larry Phillips, Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, was the keynote speaker during the graduation ceremony held at the LBJ Library Auditorium on the University of Texas campus.
“I congratulate the fine men and women who are graduating today and becoming Texas Highway Patrol Troopers. You have agreed to protect and defend the people of Texas, and we
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¡Carnaval! on view at Museum of the Gulf Coast
Port Arthur, TX – As southeast Texas gears up for Mardi Gras celebrations, the Museum of the Gulf Coast will join in this centuries-old party with an NEH on the Road touring exhibition called ¡Carnaval!The exhibition provides windows into eight communities in Europe and the Americas where carnival is a high point of the yearly cycle.
¡Carnaval! will open to the public with a FREE Family Fun Day on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will feature a variety of hands-on crafts and activities as well as dance performances and Zumba lessons. Young and
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