Giddings News

Giddings, Texas, is a small town located in the middle of a very large and rural state.

Following last season's triumph of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, Lyric Stage Founding Producer Steven Jones has reunited director Cheryl Denson and music director Jay Dias for the world premiere of the newly restored The King and I, featuring a 35-piece orchestra playing the original Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations.

The freshly constructed bridge on County Road 500 S. near County Road 220 SW was decimated by vandals driving a truck who performed 'doughnuts' in the nearby grass space at the intersection.

Police went to the 4100 block of Thelma Drive at 11:20 p.m. Monday to check on reports of gunshots.

Trey Masek piched a two-hitter and Brooks Marlow had two RBIs and scored a run to help Giddings defeat Texarkana Pleasant Grove 5-1 in a Class 3A semifinal Thursday.

Westlake , Giddings and Thorndale will all attempt to win championships this week as they compete in the state baseball tournament.

The following local students were among 104 semifinalists in the 2009 Texas Geographic Bee competition in Bedford, near Fort Worth, in April: Sam Fason, a seventh-grader at St.

Don C. Jones, president of Crockett Insurance Service, president of Houston-Walker Counties Insurance Service & Crockett Financial Service, Crockett, Texas.

A new Dallas law school and repair of a historic Fair Park building would get start-up money under a last-minute decision by House-Senate budget negotiators Friday.

The Stanley Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep dealership in George West owned by Gaines Stanley was listed as one of the 789 dealerships Chrysler plans to close as it restructures under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court records filed Thursday at the U.S. bankruptcy court.

With a weakened economy impacting families across the state, TXU Energy is launching a new program designed to help low-income families use less electricity so they can lower their bills and save money.

Chrysler shut down 50 dealerships in Texas Thursday. Four of these dealers are in Central Texas.

For the last several months, we've advocated for legislation that would improve life in the southern half of our city.

Like other food banks across the state, the South Plains Food Bank in Lubbock is having a hard time making ends meet.

A slight chance of rain is possible today as a line of thunderstorms rakes the region north of Houston, but the showers won't bring much relief from the steamy, muggy heat that has gripped the area for nearly a week.

House Appropriations Chairman Jim Pitts withdrew his amendment that AT&T pushed.

With barely a month left in its session, the state Legislature's scorecard is mixed on the projects this newspaper has been pushing to improve life in the southern half of Dallas.

Austintes are mourning the loss of an Austin institution. Sara Ransom owned the Dry Creek Cafe in West Austin.

Severe weather has caused some damage and destruction in southeast Texas as a line of storms moves through our area.

Speaker Joe Straus said Tuesday he's got a positive outlook heading into the House budget debate later this week and that he's hopeful the spending bill can be tackled in one day.