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BYOB: Can You Name The Last Four Dry Counties in Texas?
In most Texas counties you can now legally buy alcohol in most Texas counties, but there are indeed a few holdouts. Four dry counties, in fact, are the last remaining vestiges of prohibition in The Lone Star State. I've lived in a dry county, and it was just a pain...
Tyler prepares for the 91st annual Rose Festival
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – KETK is the home for the 91st Annual Texas Rose Festival and the countdown begins! The festival is only three months away and organizers were excited to kick off this year’s events. “This is our 91st year celebrating Tyler and promoting the local rose industry and expressing our civic pride,” Bill […]
East Texas cities, businesses impacted by global technology outage
UPDATE: The City of Jacksonville said that services are back online. JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KETK) – Some East Texas cities and businesses are experiencing service disruptions caused by a global technology outage. Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike announced one of their updates had a defect that caused outages in banks, hospitals, and other industries nationwide on computers […]
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