Seminole News

Tanya Tucker had her first country hit in 1972, when she was just 13 years old. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a remarkable streak of Top Ten and Top 40 hits.

A Texas Highways intern Brenna Burkarth interviews Devils State Natural Area Park Ranger Emmitt Brotherton.

Reporter-News Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich Walter Woods, 90, holds his grandson Jaxon Woods, left, great-grandson Max Thornton, center, and great-great-grandson Azmari Steele, right, at his Abilene home Friday.

Larry Gatlin is best-known for his '80s hits with the Gatlin Brothers, but prior to forming and leading that family trio, he enjoyed a successful solo career with occasional support from his brothers.

Marie Neudorf has chosen to use art as a way to express her spiritual beliefs. Editor's note: Marie Neudorf is a Midwestern State University senior art student whose paintings depict Biblical people and events.

It's weekend roundup time which comes in handy because May 4 was a slow news day after a long list of events that happened on May 3. Country music singer Larry Gatlin, one of the famed Gatlin boys, was born May 2, 1948 in Seminole.

Whatchya want? Because, baby, they probably got it. On the third weekend of each month, folks from across Texas and even parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma gather at the Seminole Trade Days trade show, a three-day shopping event that offers off-the-beaten-path shoppers a chance to find that one-of-a-kind object they may be hard-pressed to find at the ...

Funeral services for Nettie Lambert, age 95, of Seminole, Texas, will be held Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Assembly of God Church, with Rev Ronnie Fisher officiating.

As they gear up to plant this year's crop, for many peanut farmers in Gaines County it's time to cast the dice and hold their breath because the fate of the region's industry could depend on October's harvest.

LAMESA Brett Holly came up with the best round of the day, a 75, to help Andrews overtake Seminole for the lead after the second round of the District 3-3A Championships on Monday at Lamesa Country Club.

Peanuts have helped produce profits for many Texas growers. But even without the horrific salmonella scare that recently roasted the industry, the glut of goobers grown in the Southeast last year means loan-level prices may be the best farmers expect for 2009.

Gaines County will not be voting on alcohol sales any time soon. According to the Gaines County Clerk's Office, the Monday deadline for a petiton to request a local election to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages in the county passed with no petition turned in.

The Lady Loboes finished behind first-place El Paso Eastwood . Hill's 148 was the second-best individual mark, just behind Eastwood's Alexia Heist .

A Gaines County Commissioner was arrested over the weekend. According to the Seminole Sentinel News, Charlie Lopez was pulled over by a DPS Trooper and arrested for driving while intoxicated.

The Texas AgriLife Extension Service will conduct two free peanut production workshops on Feb.

A Central Texas woman has filed a discrimination law suit against the Seminole Inn in Seminole,Texas. Gwenda Gault claims she and her family were turned away despite having booked five rooms at the Seminole ...

Discrimination happened June 19 at the Seminole Inn, lawsuit says. By Claire Osborn Tuesday, February 03, 2009 A West Texas hotel refused to give rooms to a Williamson County family because they were African ...

There will be some prospects in the class of 2009 who do not meet the initial academic eligibility requirements and therefore have to attend a prep school or junior college.