Beeville News

Longtime Beeville Fire Chief Donnie Morris was selected as the Citizen of the Year at the 2013 Bee County Chamber of Commerce banquet, recently held at the Beeville Country Club.

An exhibition of delicate watercolors by Beeville artist Crystal Farris opens at the Beeville Art Museum with a reception on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

The Beeville Art Museum will host a solo exhibition of works by landscape artist Sylvia Benitez, an East Coast native now living and working in Seguin, Texas.

Workmen from CenterPoint Energy rush to stop a large gas leak just before noon Monday in the 1300 block of West Corpus Christi Street.

Mandatory testing of all equine in Kleberg County was ordered by Texas Animal Health Commission officials on March 8. So far, 19 horses on six premises in the southern Kleberg County t have tested positive for Equine Piroplasmosis .

A 23-page indictment accuses 32 people of taking bribes and participating in illegal schemes and racketeering activity to protect and expand criminal operations from January 2009 until their arrests.

Local artist Crystal Farris will have her watercolor works on display at the Beeville Art Museum starting with a reception Saturday at 2 p.m. The Beeville Art Museum will host a reception this Saturday, May 18, from noon to 2 p.m. for two exhibits that will be on view through July 18.

According to the state of Texas, on Dec. 17, 1999, Robert Pruett , 20, took a sharpened metal rod wrapped with tape and stabbed prison guard Daniel Nagle eight times, prompting a heart attack that killed the guard.

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The staff at the Beeville Animal Shelter on Cook Road will hold another adoption clinic this Saturday.

Younger and older veterans carry the colors at the beginning of Saturday morning's "The Parade That Never Was." Thousands showed from cities throughout the area to honor the Vietnam veterans.

A state district judge has put off next week's scheduled execution of a Texas inmate condemned for the slaying of a corrections officer at a South Texas prison in 1999.

This week's Hot Jobs report is courtesy of Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend.

Gamma Omicron Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International recognized its book grant recipients at the May 4 meeting held at RES Elementary School in Karnes City.

Americana Arms owner Jeff Massengill said that, for a while there, ammunition and semiautomatics were scarce.

District Attorney JosA© Aliseda said Thursday that he has not yet made a decision as to whether or not to seek a capital murder case against Mark Pillow.

"All my life," Duane Webb said this week when asked how long he has been painting signs, murals and patriotic symbols.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO In 1964, Ram Chavez , David Castro and Roberto Callejo were in the Miller High School band under the direction of Eddie Galvan.

The ceremonies will honor graduates from all four campuses, including Alice, Kingsville and Pleasanton.

A simple swat on the hind end of a 4-year-old pit bulldog Wednesday morning ended with two Beeville residents suffering serious bite injuries and the ultimate death of the animal.