Bee County News

Beeville resident Francisco "Poncho" Cardenas has helped maintain the family cemetery plot just west of Skidmore since his father died in 1954.

It's summer in South Texas and the countryside is hot and dry. That means there will be strict limits on the use of fireworks in Bee County this Independence Day.

Former Bee County Judge Jay Kimbrough has been appointed as a senior advisor to Gov.

Beeville families are invited to the Bee County Expo Center on July 4 for a day of shopping, food and entertainment to celebrate the holiday.

The subjects discussed during Thursday eveninga s town hall meeting ranged from the need for new restaurants and affordable housing to a shaded cover at the golf course and the building of a skate park.

A former Bee County resident has announced plans to run for governor. "I'm running because we need a governor who truly represents the people of Texas," said Debra Medina, a 1980 graduate of A.C. Jones High School who is seeking the Republican nomination for the highest office in the state.

Bee County residents who want to study medicine may not have to travel far to become physicians in the future, if a bill co-sponsored by state Rep.

There were no new drilling permit applications for Aransas, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg or San Patricio counties.

Editora s note: The Beeville Bee-Picayune makes it a policy to not identify the names of juvenile offenders or victims of sexual assaults.

Washington, D.C. - " Congressman RubA©n Hinojosa voted Thursday to approve the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill which will benefit communities in the 15th Congressional District of Texas.

Construction activity may be slow in other parts of the country but big things are happening in Beeville.

The Bee County Historical Society will hold its annual general membership meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 29, at the Joe Barnhart Library Dougherty meeting room on the first floor.

A Nueces County jury convicted Martin Cox in June 1993 of driving while intoxicated.

Stolen identification papers and good interrogation techniques led local officers to file charges on a Mexican national who had led police on a chase from Kenedy County to Harris County earlier this month.

Bee County Crime Stoppers are looking for information that could lead to arrests in several recent crimes.

The city of Beeville will not impose a ban on the use of plastic shopping bags. City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to abandon the idea after listening to the concerns of management from the citya s two largest retailers, Wal-Mart and H-E-B. Cathey Anderson, manager at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, said the cost of switching to paper bags ...

A 20-year-old Beeville man accused of attempting to evade arrest was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation.

Tired of the way the federal government is doing business these days? There will be a chance to sound off on July 3 on the north lawn of the Bee County Courthouse when local people hold the second Tea Party.

Bee County deputies took a 40-year-old Pettus man into custody Saturday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Beeville Police Chief Joe Trevino said this week that his department will be sending court summonses to the driver and passenger of a 2005 Dodge Ram involved in a fatal accident on May 29.