Wharton News

A Hispanic man died and five others were injured after a high speed chase ended with a truck crashing off a bridge into a dry creek bed late Sunday morning on County Road 461 in Wharton County.

A Wharton farmer was killed Monday after his tractor rolled into an irrigation canal and landed on top of him, according to a Wharton County Sheriff's Office report.

Lynn W. McMillan, of Fort Collins, talks about the changes he's seen across all facets during his life.

Heather Jeanne Swenson and Scott Ronald Kroos, both of Victoria, were married May 23, 2009, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Victoria.

Horton Foote Jr. sang eloquently, often amusingly, for his father May 11 when the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-nominated playwright from Wharton, TX - who died March 4, ten days shy of his 93rd birthday - received a heartfelt farewell at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

Despite support from five local organizations, Wharton County and Needville school district voters turned down an $18 million bond project for Wharton County Junior College on Saturday.

The conventional formula for a senior goodbye piece goes something like this: 1.) Nostalgically list several fond, quintessentially-Penn memories-"I remember getting wasted at Smokes/being pelted at Hey Day/pissing on Ben Franklin's statue a " 2.) Reminisce at length about lessons learned; the less academic, the better-"College taught me never to ...

Boling and Wharton school district residents: Wharton Civic Center, 1924 N. Fulton St., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 27 to May 1, and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., ... Early voting times and locations for Wharton County residents Boling and Wharton school district residents: Wharton Civic Center, 1924 N. Fulton St., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 27 to May ...

A Wharton man charged with capital murder in the Jan. 15 shooting death of Leo Frank Wisnieski Jr pleaded guilty Thursday.

After a drop in rankings, Wharton - and Penn - should consider a more open curriculum in the first two years Colin Kavanaugh In a recent set of undergraduate business school rankings from Business Week, the Wharton School was ranked third behind the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame business schools, respectively.

The world's largest pipe maker is launching a new corrugated high density polyethylene pipe program to tap into one of the most promising growth markets in plastic building products.

Wharton County Junior College officials want to improve its health operation center and build new dorms.

A man is recovering from serious injuries suffered in a one-vehicle wreck two miles south of Wharton on Farm-to-Market Road 3012.

The death of a pedestrian struck and killed by a car near the Wharton-Fort Bend county line remains under investigation Wednesday.

One person was killed and another seriously injured in a one-vehicle rollover Sunday.

Spring break was a much-welcome respite, more so than it's ever been for me in the past.

March 20, 2009 - 4:24 p.m. The Housing Authority of the City of Victoria will receive $638,197 in federal stimulus money to make upgrades on apartments needing them.

Bring your flip-flops and sunscreen and let the relaxation begin. The Texas coast stretches more than 400 miles from the border of Louisiana to the beginnings of Mexico.

The entry titled "Reconsidering Horton Foote 1." Categories Archives Reconsidering Horton Foote 1 Monday, March 9, 2009, 09:53 AM He was Texas' greatest playwright.

When Horton Foote died Wednesday at age 92, he was hard at work on the most ambitious project of his nearly seven-decade writing career.