Jordan Green

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WHITE OAK — If you want to take a gamble, you won’t have any luck in White Oak. The town's City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance that bans amusement redemption machines, gambling devices and game rooms within the city limits. White Oak City Coordinator Jimmy Purcell said the city lacked such an ordinance but needed one. White Oak doesn’t have any game rooms, and the ordinance will prevent them, he said.

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GILMER — An Upshur County Sheriff’s Office deputy was commended Tuesday for saving the life of a man who had overdosed on drugs in March. Upshur County Sheriff Larry Webb presented the Lifesaving Award to Deputy Lucrecia Davidson during the meeting of the Upshur County Commissioners Court. On March 27, Davidson responded to a report that a man possibly had overdosed on drugs. The caller found a man unconscious with a needle in his arm, Webb said. Davidson and Sgt.

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EAST MOUNTAIN — East Mountain City Council members voted Monday to reprimand the city’s police chief for making a Facebook post that council members said was political in nature. Mayor Mark Covington and four fellow council members concurred that Police Chief Stephen Rathbun’s April 7 post on the East Mountain Police Department’s Facebook page was improper, though attorneys for the city said the post was legal. Councilman Eugene Brown voted against the reprimand.

1 week ago | news-journal.com | Jordan Green

If the Department of Veterans Affairs sent Adam Stanford to a different therapist, he wonders: Would that therapist answer the phone after 11 p.m.? Stanford, an East Mountain resident and veteran of the Iraq War, has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression in the years following his service. He’s been on the brink of suicide. One time he was in a mental health crisis, he locked himself in his bedroom with a gun. He called the Veterans Crisis Line, and no one answered.

1 week ago | news-journal.com | Jordan Green

Some call ‘em crawfish. Some call ‘em mudbugs. Some call ‘em crawdads. Yankees call ‘em crayfish. But in Longview, people don’t call them anything. They’re too busy stuffing their craws with them to talk. Event organizers expected attendees to gobble up 15,000 pounds of crawfish and 1,500 pounds of catfish, said Chuck Sartori, owner of Shaver’s Catering in Shreveport, which cooks the food for the event.