Homeland Security

When it comes to President Obama’s campaign promise to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, many supporters were quick to praise his reversal of President Bush’s policy. Read more »

While most of the world has been following news of an American ship captain rescued last week from Somali pirates, one Hudson graduate is living it. Read more »

The search continues for a Lufkin man missing in Xcalak, Mexico since Saturday. "We still have hope that he will be found alive," said Cindy Scheepstra, wife of Ronald Scheepstra. Read more »

BY JOE PALAZZOLO Special Agent Frederick Bragg, president of the FBI Agents Association, issued this statement regarding the new transfer policy for field supervisors, which requires them to move up or move over after seven years, instead of five: "Changes to the up and out policy have not addressed the fundamental problems that led the Bureau to agree to protect the retirement benefits of agents ... Read more »

Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert is back from a weekend trip to Guantanamo Bay with other House Judiciary Committee members, and he says he's struck by the good treatment prisoners get there. Read more »

TYLER - Representative Louie Gohmert traveled to Guantanamo Bay on March 13th to check out the facilities in light of President Obama's plan to close the prison. Read more »

But Congressman Gohmert says many of the people in Gitmo still hold a desire to terrorize the United States, as he reads an affidavit from one prisoner, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Read more »

Gohmert will review the conditions of detainees at the Cuban base's military prison, the security level of the detention camp and the previous process for military tribunals, according to officials in Gohmert's office. Read more »

Honor is not a word to be used lightly, and Americans generally do not misuse it. It was used quite a bit — and with good reason — during Saturday's funeral service for Zachary Ryan "Zac" Cook, the Lufkin soldier who died in a Black Hawk training exercise last week in College Station. Read more »