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$125K passed out to Bee County schools
Members of the Bee County Commissioners Court voted Monday to disburse $124,890 in permanent school funds. County Judge David Silva said the majority of that money, $91,834.76, went to the Beevill...
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16-year-old girl recovering after tragic wreck last week
The doctors and nurses didn’t think 16-year-old Bethany Bernal would survive the night. With serious head injuries sustained in a wreck that also killed two other teens, things weren’t looking goo...
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Prison inmates may get their $50 and a bus ticket home in Beeville
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has confirmed that prison inmates could soon be released in Beeville and other regional sites around the state after they have served their time. Jason Cla...
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BISD trustees approve $1.3 million for stadium improvements
Beeville ISD trustees voted Monday to spend $1.3 million to replace the north side bleachers at the high school stadium. Earlier this year, specialists deemed the 30-year-old or older bleachers ...
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Steven Ray Martin Sex offender agrees to 10 years deferred adjudication & 75 days in jail
District Judge M.E. “Mike” Welborn approved a plea bargain agreement Tuesday morning and sentenced a 39-year-old man to 10 years deferred adjudication, 75 days confinement in the Bee County Jail a...
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First cousins charged with having sex with each other
Two first cousins were indicted this week under state law after a police investigation discovered the two had sex. Ruben Perez and Elvira Martinez were named in two separate indictments, each on t...
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This wooden cross marks the spot where Mariano Virata and Reagan Hardy where killed when the car they were rolled and crashed into a utility pole on Farm-to-Market Road 888. ‘Quiet tears’
The halls of A.C. Jones High School were quiet this week as students went from class to class. Their thoughts were of their fellow sophomore schoolmates who died in a car crash Friday night. “The ...
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2 of 3 councilmen get opponents in upcoming election
Two of the three City Council incumbents facing re-election on May 8 will have opponents this year. Ward 4 Councilman David Carabajal was the first to attract an opponent on Monday when a 52-year-...
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State Sen. Glenn Hegar from Katy will be the featured speaker at the March 26 Bee County Chamber’s annual banquet. Texas senator to headline chamber banquet
State Sen. Glenn Hegar from Katy will be the featured speaker at the March 26 Bee County Chamber’s annual banquet. Hegar is a rising star in Texas politics. The youngest member of the Texas Senat...
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Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ralph J. Padron Jr., a master of arms aboard the USS Essex, recently participated in Cobra Gold 2010 in Utapao, Thailand.  Cobra Gold is the largest multi-lateral military training exercise in the Pacific region. Padron participates in Thailand training exercise
UTAPAO , Thailand – For the son of a Beeville woman, being an ambassador for peace in a country known for its spicy cuisine, magnificent colorful temples, and lush jungles where deadly cobra snak...
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Council approves list of projects for possible federal funding
City Council members, when they met Tuesday night, approved a list of four projects for which the city will request funding from stimulus money approved last year by the federal government. City M...
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Better than the can
If you are ever cut off from supermarkets and electricity due to a natural disaster (or because like some of us idiots you choose to go camping), you will be especially interested in this news. An...
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Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP)
AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.
Sat Mar 13 16:07:53 -0600 2010
Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college (AP)

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.


Sat Mar 13 16:37:39 -0600 2010
Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care (AP)

FILE - In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A spokesman says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday, March 11, 2010, from serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington.


Sat Mar 13 16:50:39 -0600 2010
Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Christine Mott, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, is shown. Paulin-Ramirez was the second American arrested in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over a 2007 sketch depicting the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Christine Mott) NO SALESAP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.


Sat Mar 13 16:46:27 -0600 2010