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Former college-rock frontwoman Kristi Callan leads a quintet of backporch country pickers.

What a difference two decades makes. Twenty-plus years ago, Kristi Callan and her sister Kelly were part of an engaging pop-rock band called Wednesday Week (their first elpee was subject to a recent much-needed reissue on the Noble Rot label). Today, WW's lead singer Kristi is fronting a five-woman country band called Dime Box for Kelly's...

A Corpus Christi man is in custody after he allegedly robbed a Lee County bank. Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, authorities say Prosperity Bank in Dime Box was robbed by a man with a handgun. via KBTX-TV Bryan

“They really don't pay a lot of money. You have to be doing it because you love it, not because of the money”

Unemployment has never been as big an issue in Bryan-College Station as it is in other parts of the country. via KBTX-TV Bryan

“We passed through the gas station at maybe not much over 100 miles an hour. Concern was detectable on the face of the attendant as he threw down his hose and flung himself against the wall.”

Edwin Shrake - the noted Texas novelist, screenwriter and journalist - has lived in Austin for decades. via Austin American-Statesman

Like the mystery of the proverbial chicken and the egg, history presents the question of which came first, the mail or the post office? Time and again the first hints of a new town or settlement came when ... via Amarillo.com

A Dime Box man faces up to two years in state jail for causing a crash that killed a Washington County Sheriff's Deputy. via KBTX-TV Bryan

Verizon Communications Inc , a provider of broadband and other wireline and wireless communications, announced on Monday the expansion of the company's broadband service to 27 cities in Texas, US. via M2.com