Red Kettle Campaign underway for holiday season

Online donations available, volunteers needed to ring bell around Nacogdoches

By You know it's the holidays when you spot the red kettles and hear the ringing bells of The Salvation Army "bell ringers" outside your local supermarket or mall. According to Sherry Pfaffenberg, this year's Red Kettle coordinator, they are executing multiple projects to raise more money this holiday season than last ($59,000). Full story

Aubrey twins look forward to final college football season

By Maegan Prejean Some may know them as Josh and Jordan. Others may know them as the Aubrey twins, and still others may know them as number 37 and number 38. Josh Aubrey stands 5'11'' on the football field as one of the nation's top returning corners, with his brother Jordan behind him at safety standing 5'10'' tall. Full story

‘Twilight’—it just doesn’t measure up to ‘Harry Potter’

I remember the first time I saw my first movie at midnight. It was a “Harry Potter” movie to be exact. I was so excited and knew it was going to be a night I would always remember. But as the new “Twilight” movie, “Breaking Dawn, Part One “came out, it hit me; the media is trying to make “Twilight” like “Harry Potter. Full story

‘The Descendants’ full of emotions

New George Clooney movie both funny and heartbreakingly sad

By "The Descendants," Alexander Payne's fine, funny, heartbreakingly sad new movie, busts lots of genres wide open: Not exactly a comedy, not exactly a melodrama, the movie features a leading performance from Big Movie Star George Clooney, but it has the scrappy, subversive tendencies of a small-frame American indie. Full story