Brackettville News

On Friday, a member of the notoriously violent Mexican Mafia escaped from the Kinney County Detention Center in Brackettville, TX.

Maria Manuela Carrillo Lopez, 87, passed away on Monday, October 19, 2009, at her residence.

Here I was all set to light into the National Weather Service for scaring us about nasty weather last night only to find out what they really meant to say was right now.

If you're driving or pulling an RV, instead of traveling on a bike, you might think you'll never get there because Highway 16 between Medina and Kerrville seems to go up and down and on forever.

Suddenly, Tosawi Marshall found herself the new executive director of the Fort Worth-based American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Texas.

Angel Rodriguez, 81, passed away August 31, 2009 at his residence in Ft. Clark Brackettville, Texas.

Regardless of what changes might come with health care reform, doctors, nurses and hospital administrators will be forced to deal with new issues.

A high-speed chase that started in Kinney County ended inside Del Rio city limits Thursday afternoon.

A high-speed chase that started in Kinney County ended inside Del Rio city limits Thursday afternoon.

City officials say its CodeRED system has proved valuable. Most recently CodeRED was used to notify residents via telephone message that a water main had burst resulting in potential contamination of city water.

This weekend is shaping up to be a humdinger of a hommage to that most iconic of all American icons - " the cowboy.

The late Virginia Shahan, who had kept the Alamo Village movie set in Brackettville open to visitors long after John Wayne's 'The Alamo' was filmed there, poses in 2004.

Temperatures should reach the mid- to upper 90s across much of Texas on Monday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Virginia Shahan, widow of rancher Happy Shahan, who owned the movie set called Alamo Village, has died at 93, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

Survived by: Two daughters, Jamie Shahan Rains of Brackenridge; Tulisha Shahan Wardlaw of Brackettville; a son, James Tullis Shahan II of Brackettville; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Services: A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Brackettville.

It's a well known fact employers across the nation boost their manpower during the summer months to handle the busy season, and the Air Force is no exception.

We've all heard of the little drummer boy, but we rarely stop to think how young such boys really were.

Thirty-two miles east of Del Rio, where Las Moras Springs bubbles out of the earth, the town of Brackettville marks the southwestern margin of the Balcones Fault Zone: a 5- to 40-mile-wide sector of ancient tectonic activity that cuts a 200-mile curved swath from Brackettville east and then north to just short of Waco.

Carolyn Young Holman, 95, a beloved, gracious lady and early Rio Grande Valley pioneer, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 3, 2009, in Fredericksburg, Texas.