Brewster County News

CBS 7 News Staff July 2, 2009 BREWSTER COUNTY - More swine flu cases have been confirmed in West Texas.

CBS 7 News Staff June 22, 2009 ALPINE - The pilot of a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine aircraft got a bit of a scare while landing at the Alpine airport today.

CBS 7 News Staff June 22, 2009 ALPINE - The Brewster County Sheriffs Office made an unsusal discovery Saturday night.

CBS 7 News Staff June 15, 2009 The Brewster County Sheriff's Office recieved a big check last week for their part in shutting down a major drug trafficking gang in north Alabama.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News egarcia@cbs7.com June 11, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Presidio County Jail in Marfa is in the process of shutting down because the county can't afford to run it.

College Station financial company executive Gregg Baird, 38, who was arrested last month on seven counts of possession of child pornography, was in custody Thursday after he was arrested again, this time on 93 child pornography counts.

As News 3 first reported Sunday night, Gregg Baird, the College Station man accused of having child porn, was brought back to Brazos County, but bonded out of jail.

If it were a state, the Big Bend region of Texas would rank 42nd in size. In the approximately 10,000 square miles between U.S. 90 and the bend in the Rio Grande, there are only five towns that are more than just a wide spot in the road and miles of highway through the desert and mountains.

"Federico Villalba was a restless young man, not of a mind to settle down, at least not in Aldama.

A man wanted by local authorities on charges of possession of child pornography was arrested Tuesday after a traffic stop in West Texas.

A 38-year-old College Station man accused of having child pornography and fleeing the area after police searched his home was arrested Tuesday in Pecos, police said.

A 66-year-old woman was killed and a 67-year-old man was injured in a motorcycle crash late Thursday near Alpine, Department of Public Safety communications operator Susan Passmore said.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held April 24 that elected officials, when carrying out their official duties, have the same free speech rights as other citizens.

A dry lightning storm that rolled through West Texas on Thursday sparked four large grassfires that kept the Texas Forest Service and area firefighters busy, forest service spokesman Lewis Kearney said.

The American Institute of Architects has announced the 17 recipients of the 2009 Housing Awards.

Only a vacant lot remains where the Terlingua Boys and Girls Club meeting place once stood.

Residents near a small West Texas town were evacuated today and some highways were closed as a 300-acre wildfire destroyed three structures and threatened 70 more, fueled by high winds and parched grass.

According to spokesman at the Midland Department of Public Safety office, DPS officers in Pecos are responding to a riot at the Reeves County Detention Center.

The long and the short of it: Former Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson talks about his favorite shootin' irons.

The Texas Land & Water Conference, sponsored by the Texas Landowners Council, will feature five speakers at the Boerne Convention & Community Center Saturday, Feb.