Mark Haslett
News DirectorMark Haslett has served at KETR since 2013. Since then, the station’s
news operation has enjoyed an increase in listener engagement and
audience metrics, as well recognition in the Texas AP Broadcasters
awards. Before coming to Northeast Texas, Haslett worked for High Plains Public Radio in Amarillo, where he worked as News Director and later as Director of Programming. His work has been broadcast on KERA, KCUR and other public radio stations, as well as the NPR Newscast. Haslett has also worked as an editor and reporter in both news and sports at newspapers in the Southwest and Midwest. Haslett developed a passion for radio as a youth, when he helped his father, a program host at (now-defunct) WRBC-AM in Jackson, Miss.
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Most early voting polling stations will be open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. through Nov. 1.
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Story on faith and politics in Black church raises questions that challenge all political tendencies‘By your fruits you will know them’ is an idea that offers a compass to navigate the hostile and disingenuous waters of contemporary politics.
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Texas A&M University-Commerce will host Lamar University in a 3:30 p.m. Saturday football game at Memorial Stadium.
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The facility is set to be the site of battery manufacturing for Sulphur Springs-based Signature Solar, with work scheduled to begin in November.
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Corey Lance Bankston was arrested in December 2023.
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The wreck occurred Monday evening (Oct. 14) on State Highway 121, north of Randolph.
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The Texas A&M University-Commerce football team will face Lamar University in this year's Homecoming game on Oct. 19.
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The Texas A&M University-Commerce and Northwestern State University football teams are both winless entering Saturday's game.
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Far northern Fannin County and far northwestern Lamar County are experiencing extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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McFarland's many contributions to public life in Commerce included work in early childhood education, as well as service as "first lady" of Texas A&M University-Commerce, where her husband Keith was president 1998-2008.