08/01/10 When Linda Walker drives north on Highway 118 from her West Texas home in Terlingua toward Alpine, she spots the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint ahead and thinks to herself, "Do I have time today?"
07/05/10 Perhaps only in southern Brewster County -- where the land is harsh, the libertarian fevers run hot and the missing refinements of civilization are not mourned -- could a census worker be mauled by a wild swine kept as a family pet
06/19/10 John Dyer Murphy St. Raspa Co. sells shaved ice with about 40 flavored syrups.The wind here buffets a car from side to side, blows up dust devils that dance away and dissolve, their ghosts fading into the bluest sky. Alpine is the last outpost of any size before the Big Bend in far Southwest Texas.
05/27/10 This is no playground. This is the Chihuahuan Desert of Big Bend, where for thousands of years transients have found enough water to keep them going but rarely enough to let them stay.
05/14/10 Rightly considered one of the Lone Star State's musical institutions, Gary P. Nunn purposely booked this weekend's gig at The Blue Light because he attracts not only younger fans of his original Texas music, but also the parents who may be visiting Lubbock for graduation ceremonies and looking for something else to do.
05/14/10 As drug cartels clash in border cities, rival traffickers are expanding to a remote stretch along the Texas border. Brewster County spans more than 6,000 miles miles of rugged terrain. It's the largest county in Texas. Some of it borders Mexico. The local sheriff is coping with a spike in crime. Sheriff Ronny Dodson's family has lived here for five generations. "Pancho Villa had run my great ...
04/15/10 The north Texas turkey season opened two Saturdays ago on April 3. If you haven't made it out to hunt yet, a good place to see and learn about the big birds will be at the fourth annual Clay County Turkey Fest this weekend.
 04/03/10 We all know that the real estate industry as a whole was a disaster in 2009; however, what appears t...
03/07/10 It was a chili cooking throw down at the 29th Annual Rose City Cook-off today.
 02/22/10 The Ohio Schools are redefining their Special Education program and closing the gap in the achieveme...
02/12/10 Dallas is one of the most in-demand places to reside in all across Texas County, US. This is the cas...
01/03/10 GALVESTON Jerry Jeff Walker, Herman's Hermits and The Oak Ridge Boys will play at The Grand in January.
12/17/09 Two men accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Brewster County teen have both been indicted.
12/09/09 Whether teaching in the Peace Corps or pulling together a series of virtual college campuses in cyberspace as a faculty development specialist at the University of Texas, Leslie Jarmon was all about people and communicating with them.
12/08/09 The 18th annual Rancher Bar Great Chili Cook-off and benefit auction will take place Sunday (Dec. 6) at the Rancher Bar in Wickenburg.
11/15/09 There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that President Lyndon Johnson fired his White House chef after he discovered the cook had used sirloin to make chili.
11/12/09 True or false? Jerry Jeff Walker wrote and recorded "London Homesick Blues" on his 1973 album, "Viva Terlingua." False. Completely false.
11/03/09 When pondering the West -- that unwieldy stretch of U.S. soil from Texas to the Pacific Northwest -- travelers tend to flash on archetypes -- the Golden Gate Bridge, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Hollywood , Monument Valley, Vegas, the Alamo, the Black Hills of South Dakota , Hearst Castle. But the West is also an expanse of weirdness and wonder, boasting bizarre and purely sublime ...
10/29/09 >> Two clerks at West Texas Finance, 103 E. 31st St., reported someone showed a firearm, then demanded and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the office between noon and 12:11 p.m. Tuesday.
10/29/09 If you were among those left empty-handed when registration for the Chevron Houston Marathon sold out in 37 hours last July, you have another shot.
10/18/09 Inside a room at the Fort Collins Senior Center, 10 people sat around a table, passing around white Styrofoam cups filed with red chili. Tom Vayne, 65, took the lid off a cup labeled No. 6, sniffed the contents and stirred them with a plastic spoon before tasting it. Placing the spoon in a glass bowl, he picked up a pencil and gave it a grade.
10/09/09 No, it wasn't as difficult as the journey to Texas that Woodrow Call took with the body of his friend Gus McCrae in the famous novel and television series "Lonesome Dove."
10/04/09 No, it wasn't as difficult as the journey to Texas that Woodrow Call took with the body of his friend Gus McCrae in the famous novel and television miniseries Lonesome Dove. | 
