Premont News

If your events is going to be canceled or rescheduled because of the swine flu outbreak, please let us know by emailing metrodesk@caller.com CORPUS CHRISTI - The Corpus Christi Independent School District will close its schools effective Tuesday, officials said.

Two school districts in southern Jim Wells county are shut down due to the swine flu.

If your events is going to be canceled or rescheduled because of the swine flu outbreak, please let us know by emailing metrodesk@caller.com CORPUS CHRISTI - Nueces County now has 475 suspected cases of swine flu, also known as North American flu or H1N1 flu, up from the 402 suspected cases Sunday.

May 3, 2009 - THE SWINE FLU CONTINUES TO FORCE THE CLOSER OF SCHOOLS THROUGH OUT THE COASTAL BEND.... 3 NEWS HAS LEARNED 3 PROBABLE CASES AT PREMONT ELEMENTARY IN THE PREMONT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT... HAS FORCED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TO SHUTDOWN ALL THE SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT.

AROUND 4:30 PM A GRASS FIRE BROKE OUT JUST NORTH OF PREMONT ON HWY 281. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY A HELICOPTER WAS ON THE SCENE TO ASSIST LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS AS WELL AS HELP FROM THE FALFURRIAS FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Rica Bonita Diaz of Premont has been selected as a finalist for Texas' 29th Annual Homecoming Queen Selection to be held April 18-19 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Marriott North in Irving.

With the advent of spring, it was time to fire up the old lawn mower and cut the weeds in my backyard.

Is 15 minutes of your time worth a $1 of your money? Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation are betting that enough people will say yes that they plan to toll a series of overpasses on U.S. 281 through Falfurrias.

Minutes matter to Clay Huston's truck drivers. Huston, the owner of Alamo-based trucking company DriveLine International Inc., offers quick calculations on what delays along U.S. 281 mean for the 50 trucks he has that travel the route on a regular basis.

Airman Dustin M. Hart has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

But it isn't the kind of change the 30-year-old Texas A&M University-Kingsville graduate student would like to see in his hometown.

But that's what rancher Daniel Bluntzer had to do on Tuesday to ensure feed for his heifers and calves.

Mirador retirement community donated $825 on behalf of future residents to the United Way of the Coastal Bend.

U.S. Border Patrol agents were called at 11 p.m. to assist the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department in looking for five additional undocumented immigrants who fled the scene and later were caught, said John ...

Another dangerous bailout in Premont ends with crash, injuring nine people late last night.

There are new details on how the president's economic stimulus package is affecting the Valley.

A traffic stop for a stolen tractor trailer turns into a huge drug bust overnight in Jim Wells County.

No one is sure yet exactly how improvements to U.S. 281 will be funded. But whatever the eventual source, the project is already green-lighted. State Sen.

This week's 3 Star Student is Diego Diaz from Wood River Primary. Premont High School Premont High School is hosting an Enchilada Dinner Funraiser.

An 18-year-old San Marcos youth lost her life Friday night in an accident in which her car was struck from behind and pushed into the path of a dump truck.