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2013, was another record breaking year for the Patriot Golf Classic and the UT Tyler Patriot Suddenlink Million Dollar Hole-in-One contest: $200,269.69 was raised through the efforts of these two groups. This is the largest amount raised thus far in the 27-year history of the fundraiser...

The Discovery Science Place in Tyler is getting a new look. With the talented help of the University of Texas at Tyler's art program, the walls of the entrance into the children's learning center will be boring no more. You won't believe how cool this will look when it is all done.

At 4:44 a.m. this morning (Wednesday), Tyler police responded to an armed robbery at Food Fast -- Exxon  at 4201 University Blvd.

Tyler is getting a new traffic light right after the Christmas holiday. This is a busy travel weekend, and the constant buzz on the roads should hit a lull between Christmas and New Year's Eve. That will give drivers in Tyler a chance to ease into the habit of stopping at one extra place near TJC and UT Tyler.

The Southern Regional Model United Nations Conference in Atlanta turned out to be a great thing for UT Tyler students.

UT Tyler students are smart! Criminal justice majors there recently took the Major Field Test examination and their scores were in the top 10 nationwide.

It would seem like a canoe made of concrete wouldn't have a chance at floating. It would be so heavy it would sink, right? Thanks to laws of physics that are way over my head, concrete canoes DO float, because the weight of the water displaced is equal to the weight of the the boat. Some UT Tyler students know all about that, and the canoe team there has placed in the top 15 nationally. Nice

When I went to college at the University of Nebraska, I can remember walking out of my journalism building into a puff of smoke. Smokers would congregate outside after class to have a quick drag before the next class. That may be a thing of the past. More and more schools now are banning smoking on campus, and one local college has already done it.

For the past 26 years, amateur golfers having been taking swings for their chance to win $1 million, and are helping to support funding for  scholarship programs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Over the past 25 years the annual Hole In One competition has raised more than a million dollars for endowed scholarship programs at UT Tyler. Students have benefited directly from the competition that could be giving away $1 million itself on Sunday, May 20, at Hollytree Country Club! Qualifying began Saturday at the UT Tyler Herrington Patriot Center and continues through 11 p.m. Friday. Read Mo