Jeff Easterling

The State Fair of Texas has become somewhat of a Mecca for fans of all things deep-fried.  This year the top prize was won with Deep Fried Jambalaya.

Bless 8 year-old Ashley Taylor’s heart.  She and her family had to evacuate for Hurricane Isaac, and she had to leave her beloved stuffed animals behind.

We found this really cool aerial video tour of Texarkana that highlights a lot of the area’s recent growth.

I have always been a huge fan of Elvis Presley, (not more that my mom though.)  My parents took me to Shreveport with them to see Elvis perform at Hirsch Coliseum in June of 1975.

I’ve said it before, one of the best features that the Gazette has had in years is R.J. Kennedey’s column “This Week in History”.

We found this video of five guys getting shot with 21,000 paintballs.  From some of the bruises, you could call them “pain-balls”.  It seems crazy, but it was for a good cause.

We told you that Anthony Michael Hall was in talks to play Rusty Griswald again, all grown up, and taking his own family on vacation, but now we hear that Ed Helms from “The Office”, may be playing the part of “Rusty”.

Been lots of talk lately about whether or not Jennifer Lopez is leaving ‘Idol’.  Now, Steven Tyler has beat her to it, and he is officially OUT as a judge on ‘American Idol’.