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Today from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. is the first Downtown Tyler ArtWalk of 2012. There will be nearly 20 artists exhibiting their work inside and outside of various downtown businesses. The weather should be perfect for an evening stroll around the downtown square to view the art. There will even be music to enjoy along your walk!

Retail gasoline prices across Texas have jumped 11 cents during spring break travel week.

BEAUMONT – One person is dead and three wounded after a gunman opened fire in front of a Southeast Texas Courthouse, according to Associated Press reports. Police in Beaumont say the man suspected in today’s shootings near the Jefferson County Courthouse has been injured and captured.

WASHINGTON — A new photo ID requirement for Texas voters has been rejected by the U.S. Justice Department. The agency says the state has failed to show that the new law has neither a discriminatory purpose nor effect. The department also says it objected to the law because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification.

TYLER - Smoke from a 2,000 acreage controlled burn in Houston County is beginning to fill the skies in Smith County. The Smith County Fire Marshalls office tells us the Texas Forestry Service is conducting the burn off in Kennard and the strong winds blowing from the south is moving the smoke into parts of East Texas including Smith County.

LUFKIN — Testimony continues today in the trial of an East Texas nurse accused of killing five kidney dialysis patients by injecting them with toxic bleach.

GLADEWATER -- A Gladewater man is jailed and facing charges on intoxication assault and fleeing the scene of an accident after officers found numerous vehicles at a new car lot heavily damaged.

DALLAS -- Seven people have been named in a health care fraud scheme including the owner of a medical service provider. The federal indictment alleges the defendants bilked Medicare and Medicaid of nearly $375 million for more than five years beginning in January 2006. The indictment names Jacque Roy, a doctor who owned Medistat Group Associates in Desoto and alleges he led a scheme that billed Me

A Facebook post warning that a gun may be brought on the campus of Robert E. Lee High School has led to an investigation by Tyler Independent School police and officials.

A Tyler Beauty Salon owner charged with illegally performing breast augmentations is back in Tyler after she was arrested in Harrison County last week. 39 year old Carmel Foster-Alexander is accused of injecting two people with some kind of substance to augment their breasts, and one person, Sheena Bradford of Longview, remains hospitalized in critical condition...

The U.S. Mail processing plant located at East Texas Center, just north of Tyler, will soon be shutting down and moving operations to Shreveport, La., Austin and Coppell, according to a release from the U.S. Postal Service.

Police are seeking a beautician charged with an unlicensed medical practice after a breast augmentation she's accused of performing left a customer hospitalized in critical condition.