Carrie Provinsal
Digital Content Producer
Carrie Provinsal is a native Texan. In her younger days, she danced with the Dallas Ballet, canned fish in Alaska, studied philosophy in Belgium, and worked for the Big Apple Circus in New York.
Making East Texas her home in 2003, she taught English at Boulter Middle School. Bit by the news bug, she earned her journalism degree from the University of Texas at Tyler.
Carrie’s passion for story-telling led her to join KLTV in 2019 as a digital writer and producer. She lives in Tyler with her two sons, a dog, and two cats. Fun fact: the female cat snores.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 1:31 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
A forensic examiner identified the shoe as a Nike Air Zoom Kobe Venonmenon 4 basketball shoe. Lufkin police said “we are releasing this information in hopes that it will jog someone’s memory as to a possible suspect."
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 3:33 PM CST
|By Avery Gorman and Carrie Provinsal
Flournoy had accused court members of covering up their own misconduct when the commissioners fired Chuck Walker as the county’s road engineer in March 2022 and then replaced him.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 8:13 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Nacogdoches police have arrested the boyfriend of a woman whose death is being investigated as a homicide.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 9:56 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The victim was transported by EMS to Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital and was later flown to another hospital due to the serious nature of his injuries, according to police.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 4:20 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Chassin Tausch, 17, of Colmesneil was charged with felony terroristic threat by Tyler County deputies on Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 3:38 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Nancy Kay Boyd, 56, has been charged with financial abuse of elderly by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Three volunteer firefighters from the Moffett Volunteer Fire Department were flown to Herman Memorial Hospital following a woods fire in Lufkin.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 9:08 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
James Tad Wheeler Jr. walked away from the jail Thursday night around 10 p.m. As of Friday morning, it’s unclear where he is.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 4:22 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The driver, Mohamed Diopout, 20, of Little Rock, Ark. was arrested for evading in a motor vehicle and assault on a public servant, both felony offenses.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Elliott Jeffery Caldwell Jr., 35, removed the collar from one of the tracking dogs and gagged the dog so it couldn’t bark resulting in the felony charge of assault on a public servant.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 1:26 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
When a woman arrived at her home Monday at about 9 p.m., she found Hilaro Rosas, 40, asleep on the floor.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 10:48 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Randy Dewayne Jones Jr., 19, of Crockett is wanted for allegedly sending messages to students stating “seven carloads of people were going to come and shoot up the school”, according to police.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 9:23 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Jasper police report a suspect is in custody and the victim is recovering after a shooting on Feb. 5.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 2:51 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Demetric Marshall, 19, and a juvenile were identified as shooters in the incident, according to Lufkin police.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 1:24 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Lufkin police have released the circumstances and identities of those involved in a shooting Thursday where two people were injured, a car crash ensued and an officer fired a rifle at a suspect.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 12:11 PM CDT
|By Julian Esparza and Carrie Provinsal
The prosecution presented more witness testimony Friday in the trial of a former East Texas nurse accused of killing patients.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 3:54 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Gonzales assaulted a woman, threatened her with a gun, led Trinity and Crockett police on a chase, and crashed into a Crockett police vehicle.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 3:50 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Diboll ISD will require masks to be worn by students, staff, and visitors beginning Wednesday, Sept. 1.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2021 at 9:54 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The sheriff said attack and tracking dogs were brought back to the area of Winding Creek and Lake L subdivision before he was located.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2021 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Johnson was holding a “black-handled rusted metal claw hammer clenched tightly in his hand” and was instructed several times to put the hammer down but refused, according to the officer’s statement.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Sunday the Nacogdoches police found the body of Carole Favro, 72, who died as a result of an assault.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2021 at 5:21 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Welch’s murder charge was dropped and she pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse and received a 15-year sentence.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2021 at 2:18 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Rep. Matt Schaefer said in an interview Friday he is hoping his bill on permitless gun carry will be passed unchanged in the Senate.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2021 at 9:10 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Thursday at approximately 10:05 a.m., Pete Spencer Lammons Jr., 77, of Houston, was fishing in a tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir when he fell overboard.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The victims of the Jan. 17 crash Vanessa Davis, 28, Jason Davis, 38, and Ralph Hill, 48, were all members of the Pendleton Harbor Volunteer Fire Department.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2021 at 3:44 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) submitted the attached preliminary report on the causes of generator outages and power reduction during the February 14-19 extreme cold weather event.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2021 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The East Texas counties added are Cass, Henderson, Hopkins, Marion, Rains, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Titus, Trinity, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 11:05 AM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
The governor cited Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to move the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia’s new election integrity laws.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2021 at 11:25 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
Anna Marie Todd, 21, the mother of the child victim, turned herself in to authorities on a warrant for the offense of Injury to a Child W/ Intent Serious Bodily Injury 1st Degree Felony, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2021 at 12:08 PM CDT
|By Carrie Provinsal
On Wednesday, March 10, Narcotics Detectives located Lou Ann Hudson aka; “Momma Lou”, just off of E Capps Rd. Detectives searched the home and found eight people in possession of methamphetamine and items used in the distribution of illegal narcotics.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
People 50 and older eligible to be vaccinated beginning March 15
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 12:21 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
A state bill limiting where sex offenders can live advanced to the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice on Tuesday.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 7:23 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal and Kayla Lyons
Texas House Rep. James White joined East Texas Now’s Kayla Lyons to discuss current Texas legislation concerning term limits for the US Congress.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 2:05 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The Houston County Sheriff’s Office reports two suspects have been arrested and one is at large after a burglary at Lakeside Grocery in Ratcliff.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 9:04 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Both the Texas Senate and House of Representatives will hold hearings Thursday examining extreme weather condition preparedness and circumstances that led to the power outages directed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
Updated: Feb. 4, 2021 at 11:57 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The sheriff’s office reports the 19-year-old woman received a gunshot wound to her abdomen during a fight involving several people at a party.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 at 11:40 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Texas House Rep. Cole Hefner is proposing House Bill 1314 requiring all components of voting equipment to be American made. He says the bill would protect the integrity of Texas elections.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2021 at 4:52 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Martha Hageon, 48, of Lufkin, died Tuesday evening at a local hospital.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 3:44 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Deputies spoke with witnesses, the suspected shooter, and the man who had been shot. The deputies discovered the stolen vehicle, driven by the man who died, and stolen items from Jasper and Tyler County in the vehicle.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2021 at 12:08 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Harris County Public Health reports the man is between the ages of 30-40 years old in southwest Harris County and has no travel history.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2021 at 9:55 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal and Jeremy Thomas
According to witnesses, Tucker began firing, forcibly entering the home, and a man inside returned fire. He was later identified as Ashton Allen Smith, 22, found dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2020 at 1:32 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The emergency January allotments are in addition to the almost $2 billion in benefits previously provided to Texans between April and December.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 10:24 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
According to an arrest affidavit, Ladarrius Alexander Greer was “playing with guns” when he shot Oscar Jessie Rivera.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 at 2:45 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Jacquelin Patricio-Vazquez, 38 years of age, was reported missing by family members to the Nacogdoches Police Department on December 1.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 4:26 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
Investigators developed two suspects during the investigation. They were identified as Jameous O’Neal Smith, 35, and Mark Anthony Jacobs, 18, both from Livingston.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2020 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The wardens report a truck passing the decoy, slowed to a stop, reversed and used the headlights to get a look at “Corby”.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 2:06 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
HHSC received federal approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend the maximum, allowable amount of SNAP benefits to recipients based on family size.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 11:19 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The Uber driver was out of her maroon Toyota Corolla making a delivery when a woman later identified as Amanda Kristene Tate, 36, of Coldspring, stole the car, according to police.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2020 at 10:16 AM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, authorities have reason to believe there could potentially be other adult and juvenile victims currently unknown to law enforcement.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2020 at 4:09 PM CST
|By Carrie Provinsal
The headquarters will be located in a new state-of-the-art campus that will open in early 2022.
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