Giddings News

Blanco High School FCCLA members had an opportunity to go "Beyond the Limits" at the local Fall Leadership Meeting held October 21, 2009, in Pflugerville, Texas.

If you are a fan of knights in shining armor, jousting and medieval merchandise, the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville is no longer your only local option.

Several hundred protesters, some carrying signs reading "Nobama" and "We Don't Want Your Change," gathered at Texas A&M University on Friday to protest President Barack Obama's visit to the traditionally conservative school.

Struggling to remain viable since losing its Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation this summer , Paul Quinn College yesterday announced a major fund-raising milestone.

Paul Quinn College may still be accredited, but its recent struggles appear to have scared many students away.

JD's fellow VC club members banded together to help complete his ride. Jeffrey D. Hurta , age 23, was diagnosed January 13, 2005, with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare sarcoma of the maxillary sinus .

A fistfight in Giddings ended when one man hit another man three times with his car, investigators said.

Hold off on that inglorious obit for Paul Quinn College. Sure, the small liberal arts school on the wrong side of the tracks is in a death grip that should prompt family and loved ones to get here quick and nudge tombstone chiselers to stock up on purple and gold granite.

More Latinos are attending college, but they don't always graduate, a recent Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board report tells us.

Paul Quinn College exists today because African Methodist Episcopal preachers and former slaves back in 1872 understood the importance of education.

The Civil Air Patrol Brownsville Composite Squadron ground team received the National Ground Team Award this month and will be heading to the Air Force National Conference held in San Antonio this September.

Rep. Sylvester Turner offers his caucus's support of Paul Quinn, while president Michael Sorrell and state Rep.

Several state lawmakers declared their support Monday for Paul Quinn College as it tries to keep its accreditation, and they announced a drive to raise $1.5 million over the next several weeks.

Paul Quinn College celebrated Black History Month by showing off its improvements on academic and financial problems.

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.