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Millie Slaughter ‘Bringer of Light’

By Jason Marton Texas A&M-Kingsville
Millie Slaughter, assistant director of the Office of International Student Services at Texas A&M University Kingsville, has been named a “Bringer of Light” by the campus group Servants of Las Luminarias. More...

Park to close early

Dick Kleberg Park will close at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 26, and Friday, Nov. 27, for the Thanksgiving Holiday. More...

Thanksgiving holiday schedule

Thanksgiving is a national holiday but it will also extend to Friday for city, county and state offices in Kenedy Kleberg and Nueces Counties. More...

Indra Reddy recognized

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists has named Dr. Indra K. More...

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Sports

The BIG 12 this week

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Eagles futbol three-peats!

By Rey Sifuentes Jr.

For the third year in a row - fifth in school history - Presbyterian Pan-American School’s boys soccer team have captured the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools fall state championship. More...

Brahma tennis players take second

By Rey Sifuentes Jr.

H.M. King High School’s non-varsity tennis team concluded its fall season by finishing in second place in the freshman division while competing against seven other teams at the Tuloso- Midway fall tournament early last week. More...

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Editorial

‘Hey, Barack, It’s Your’ Heart’

“Hey, Barack. It’s me, your heart. It might be all the White House pickup basketball games or the imminent prospect of nationalizing American health insurance, but I’m feeling better than ever. More...

Attorney General Defends Texas’ Malpractice Law

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed a brief with the Texas Supreme Court defending the state’s medical malpractice reform law. More...

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Lone Star Report

Santa Gertrudis Breeders International Builds New Headquarters

Santa Gertrudis Breeders International has moved into a new headquarters building on the historic King Ranch. The first Board of Directors meeting and an open house celebration was held Oct. 31 in the new building just inside the main entrance. More...

2009 HOLIDAY SHIPPING GUIDELINES

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Budget Thanksgiving

There’s a lot of pressure to serve a big, traditional Thanksgiving meal, but for many people that’s just not financially feasible this year. More...

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Tomas Sanchez is out as Veterans’ Service Officer

Art Pecos named to post temporarily
By Erika Hernandez

Kleberg County Veterans Service Officer Tomas Sanchez was relieved of his duties, and retired Texas A&M-Kingsville administrator Arturo Pecos, who is also city commissioner, was named as his temporary part time replacement during the Kleberg County More...

Eat your heart out, Charlie Brown!

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Purple Heart ceremony honors fallen World War II soldier

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News

Texas A&M-Kingsville students, scholarship providers meet at event

By Jason Marton Texas A&M-Kingsville

Texas A&M University- Kingsville celebrated its student scholarship winners and the people that provided those scholarships with the unique dinner event, Conversations with the Future. More...

Local talent star in ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Harbor Playhouse

Harbor Playhouse announces the opening of a full-scale musical production of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ as its final show for the 2009 bridge season. More...

Communities In Schools to host ‘2010 Living Legends of Kingsville’ Roast and Toast of Clyde Allen

Event planned for Jan. 16
By Erika Hernandez

Communities In Schools- Kingsville is proud to announce the Second Annual “2010 Living Legends of Kingsville” Roast and Toast of Clyde Allen, Jan. 16 at the TAMUK Ballroom. The evening will include dinner, silent and live auctions. More...

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Education

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KENEDY COUNTY-WIDE COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS — Pictured are front row, Landin Powell, Gus Gomez, Britney Dubose, Lariah Saenz, Mason Stubblefield; back row, Landon Chambliss, More...

Fourth graders participate in annual Holiday Card Contest

Five fourth grade classes were chosen in Texas to compete in the annual Holiday Card Contest. The artwork of Devyn Hamblin from Kenedy County-Wide Common School District was chosen as a runner up in the contest. More...

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Teacher Jose Silguero holds a check for $150 for the school’s art program and Devyn Hamblin holds a check for $50 and her artwork that was chosen as a runner up in the annual Holiday Card Contes More...

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Family

Another successful King Ranch Ranch Hand Breakfast

King Ranch’s Robert Caldera demonstrates saddle blanket weaving. More...

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Obituaries

Ann Welhausen

Ann Welhausen, 87, of Shiner, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. She was born in Kingsville, on Jan. 18, 1922, to John and Mae Wilkerson Demauri. She was a homemaker and a member of the First United Methodist Church. More...

Viola Marie Engstrom Keck

Viola Marie Engstrom Keck went home to be with the Lord on Friday, November 20, 2009 in Houston, Texas. She was born on May 20, 1923 in Seattle, Washington to Swedish immigrant parents, the late John Arvid and Edla Andrietta Engstrom. More...

Anna B. Ortega

Anna B. Ortega, 51, of Kingsville, passed away November 16, 2009. She was born July 6, 1958 in Kingsville, Texas to Teodoro Rodriguez and San Juana Garza Rodriguez. More...

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