05/13/11 HSU scholarships Local students were honored and received scholarships for their continuing education at end-of-year award ceremonies at Hardin-Simmons University in April. HSU students received nearly $6 million in endowed scholarships. Honorees were:
04/28/11 Latin pop star Robi Draco Rosa has been diagnosed with cancer. The former member of boyband Menudo, who has worked with Ricky Martin, has been suffering poor health for several months and has now revealed he is battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma....
04/08/11 MYRTLE BEACH, SC - Friday was the dawn of a new era of Myrtle Beach baseball, and it got off to a great start. In their first game as a Texas Rangers affiliate, the Pelicans took the Opening Night game at BB&T Coastal Field over the Wilmington Blue Rocks 3-1.
04/06/11 Chris North will stand trial Aug. 1 for the road rage shooting that killed 21-year-old Austin David. Here is a look back on how the scary events unfolded.
04/06/11 For the second consecutive year, Eastland's Forrest Robinson has been viewed as a cut above his peers in Class 2A.
04/06/11 She pushed through the season with two sore ankles and a broken pinkie finger on her shooting hand.Yet Early forward Katie Isom still managed to post numbers that were jaw-dropping.
03/23/11 Kevin Roderick: Author Simon Winchester has written some nice books, including about earthquakes and other geological phenomena, but quake scientists say he's a little shaky in his latest stab at seismology. After...
03/23/11 BROWN COUNTY, Texas -- Some Brown County residents will not be voting in an election this May. Elections for the City of Early, Early ISD, the City of Brownwood, Bangs ISD, and Blanket ISD have been cancelled.
03/23/11 Scientists reveal that a massive earthquake as destructive as the one that hit Japan could likely hit two locations in the United States. This post is found at Scientists Say Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake Could Hit Two US Locations , originally published by The News Chronicle . If you are reading this post from some other website other than that mentioned above, please report this at our Feedback ...
03/21/11 An unfounded scientific assertion by a nonscientist has swept across the Web like a tsunami over the past few days. In an article in Newsweek, writer Simon Winchester claimed that the 9.0-magnitude Japan earthquake, following close on the heels of recent quakes in New Zealand and Chile, has ratcheted up the chances of a catastrophic seismic event striking in California.
03/20/11 The South by Southwest music festival in Texas included live performances, official and peripheral, by at least 2,000 acts.
03/20/11 It was no stunner that Ted Leo, punk-ethos lifer and reluctant interlocutor in South By Southwest's music-industry minstrel show, provided the most cutting epilogue to this year's cluster of the fucked: "I'm not impressed with your desire to be the biggest in the bowl," he sang on "The Sword in the Stone," at the fifth MWTX (Mess With Texas) party in a dusty, bi-level trailer park in East Austin ...
03/13/11 Film starring Jake Gyllenhaal follows in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock and offers reminders of North by Northwest, the movie that inspired the naming of this Texas festival (Cert 12A) South by Southwest, Austin's indie festival, was christened as a wink to Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, which zips through Texas on its speedy tour of the US. Lately, the music and interactive wings ...
03/12/11 "All you need to see," a former, albeit reluctant, fan of "The Bachelor" texted Monday during the penultimate episode, "The Women Tell All."
03/11/11 Police arrested the man they said shot and killed a 22-year-old Thursday night at a convenience store on Jornada Road just off Highway 70. Las Cruces Man Shot Dead At Convenience Store, Witness Speaks
03/11/11 Students at Bangs Independent School District will be some of the first in the state to make the transition from hard copied books to digital Nooks.
03/11/11 The Cooper Cougars recorded their fourth consecutive run-rule victory Friday before having their win streak snapped by a state-ranked opponent in the second day of the Abilene Invitational.
03/05/11 Every day is a catastrophe for Brian Freeman. The former Euston Road fire brigade watch commander and 7/7 veteran now runs Disaster City.
03/04/11 Shannon Carrico stepped into the pitching circle Friday in the bottom of the first inning with a 1-0 lead over Coahoma.
03/03/11 The Homeland Security Department last year put up a tall steel barrier meant to separate Mexico from the United States. The government calls it the border fence, but some residents near Brownsville, Texas, were left in a no man's land between the real border and where the fence was built. | 
