Wharton News

Matagorda County fourth graders spent one day studying the importance of American agriculture during the Matagorda County Farm Bureau Ag Field Day Thursday and Friday.

What did three actors in Horton Foote's "The Orphans' Home Cycle" do during their break between the end of the three-part, nine-play Cycle at Hartford Stage and their first performance at off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company ? Bill Heck , who plays adult Horace Robedaux in seven of the nine plays, Maggie Lacey who plays his love Elizabeth and ...

As Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry continue to snip at each other, conservative Republican Party candidate for governor Debra Medina continues to gain traction with a smaller government campaign, 1200 WOAI news reports.

The Sunday drive. Sometimes it's more about the trip than the destination, y'know? Texas Traveler needed to get out of town for the day.

A Wharton County teacher who is accused of exposing himself to children is being held on $300,000 bond.

Originally published November 2, 2009 at 7:45 a.m., updated November 2, 2009 at 8:05 a.m. One person was killed and another injured in a two-vehicle crash Sunday evening in Wharton County.

A modest Texan with a hard-headed reporting style, Dan Rather led a prolific career in journalism that spanned more than half a century.

Guide Mike Williams of Tarpon Express said 20-40-inch redfish are solid in the surf around Rollover Pass on natural baits.

There was an undertone of concern at this year's salute to agriculture luncheon Thursday.

ABSTRACT: A CRITIC AT LARGE about playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote. In 1933, the worst year of the Depression, the sixteen-year-old Horton Foote left his hometown, Wharton, Texas, to become an actor.

There always seems to be a lot of eating in a play by Horton Foote . made us ask actress Hallie Foote if her family had special recipes from its days in Wharton, Texas .

Wilborn Hampton begins his engrossing, multifaceted biography Horton Foote: America's Storyteller in the most fitting way possible.

The Mediterranean Sea is just 30 meters away and 12 floors under. The blue dark mass of water is surrounding the city's waterfront and Corniche walk.

Guide James Plaag of Silver King Adventures said his boats caught and released over 40 tarpon over the weekend, including one weighing just over 195 pounds.

Marsh redfish have been the ticket with higher tides on Stanley Ribbits. Fishing in the river has been good for trout, sand trout and redfish on shad and mullet.

Burt Stanley Koons, 85, of Wharton, Texas died Aug. 30, 2009, in a local hospital following an extended illness.

Guide Kirk Stansel reported limits of redfish around the wiers on soft plastics.

Conversation, story-telling and music-making were the primary forms of home entertainment in early 20th-century America, and as a young boy sitting with his elders and neighbors on porches, in parlors and at supper, Horton Foote listened closely.

Debra Medina, who plans to run for Texas governor, says she considers herself like David taking on Goliath.

The Houston school board plans to vote later today on $121.5 million in school improvements over and above the projects approved in the 2007 bond election.