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New Pop Warner fields proposed at Veterans Park
City Parks and Recreation Commission members had some of the most ambitious suggestions for improving Veterans Memorial Park since former commission chairman Bill Hooten left the board. The commis...
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Controlled burn lights up night sky over northern Bee County
Bright flames that lit up the northern sky outside of Beeville Wednesday night came from a controlled burn. That was the report from Assistant Fire Chief Lanny Holland, who responded to a call sho...
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BWSD board votes to replace Clareville pump
Beeville Water Supply District board members voted to buy a new pump for the Clareville Pump Station during a noon meeting Friday after Sherrel Mercer of Mercer Controls in Edna spoke. Mercer, a p...
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From left are Nyla Irwin, Natalie Arispe, Teresa Holland, Vanda Babich, presiding District VII director, Gwen DeWitt and Della Schwenke. The Beeville Garden Club was presented an award for recruiting the most members. The President’s Report from Beeville Garden Club President Teresa Holland earned a first place blue ribbon. District Garden Club elects DeWitt president
The District VII Convention for the Texas Garden Club Inc. was held March 9 at the Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens and March 10 at the Hilton Garden Hotel on South Padre Island Drive. Gwen DeWi...
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April 6 marks start of Republican runoff election in Bee County
Early voting in the Republican primary runoff election begins April 6 as voters decide who will be the next county commissioner for Precinct 2. Voting in the commissioner’s courtroom of the Bee Co...
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Rotarians hear of Dominican Republic visit, golf tourney
Rotary International of Beeville meets each Wednesday at noon at the Beeville Country Club. Guest speakers for February included Greg Traylor, who recounted his visit to the Dominican Republic an...
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Klipstein Park will be Beeville’s shining example
Members of the Beeville Parks and Recreation Commission agreed to use Klipstein Park as an example of what Beeville’s neighborhood parks should look like. The commissioners, Gilbert Herrera, Greg ...
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Council hires interim finance director to replace Aguilar
City Council members voted unanimously at last week’s meeting to hire Rosie Vela of Texas First Group in Leakey to serve as interim finance director for the city. Vela was at Tuesday’s meeting to ...
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Only one council race now contested
Ward 4 voters will have only two candidates on their May 8 City Council ballot instead of three and the election in Ward 3 will be canceled because one candidate withdrew his name this week. City ...
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Police chief confirms TDCJ inmates will be released in Beeville
Police Chief Joe Treviño said Friday that the release of Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates in Beeville is a certainty. The chief said he met recently with three top TDCJ officials who...
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Deborah Bailey expresses her opinion about the health care proposal before Congress this week in front of U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa s office Tuesday morning. Some doctors not feeling well about health care bill
With members of Congress trying to push through controversial health care reforms, three Beeville doctors commented on the prospect of government getting more involved in the medical business. Alt...
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A lost symbol of love
It will be 50 years next year that Rinda and J.A. Young married. But the symbol of their union disappeared earlier this month. “I know I went to the doctor on the 9th and I had it on then,” she sa...
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Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart (AP)

Gloucester County, New Jersey prosecutor Sean Dalton, right, listens as Washington Township Police chief Rafael Muniz, left, answers a question Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Washington Township, N.J., as they announce police have arrested a 16-year-old Atlantic County boy on charges of harassment and bias intimidation in the case of a racial comment that was made over the public-address system at a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.


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Fargo's fight against flooding nears its climax (AP)

Jon Forknell and his daughter Jenna look out onto the swollen Red River on Saturday, March 20, 2010 from the backyard of their south Fargo, N.D. home along River Drive. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare.


Sun Mar 21 02:24:10 -0500 2010
2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop (AP)
AP - Baltimore police say two officers have been shot during a traffic stop and they are in serious but stable condition. The suspected shooter was killed by return fire.
Sun Mar 21 00:53:50 -0500 2010
3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains (AP)

Toby Sumner, of Ritzman Lawn Service, clears snow in front of a Weaver's Department Store window Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into the 70s.


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