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A 43-year-old man who was shot at a Vanderbilt home on Wednesday remained hospitalized Friday.
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A Bay City woman was killed in a highway crash near Point Comfort early Friday morning, a law enforcement official said.
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One man was injured in a shooting in Vanderbilt Wednesday morning, Jackson County Sheriff A.J. Louderback said.
EDNA — As he slips on his racing helmet, John Drexler enters another realm. Cheers from the spectators begin to taper off and the 35-year-old has one thing on his mind: “Don’t hit the wall.”
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Several Crossroads districts announced that remote learning will stop this month.
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Born in Ganado and now a world traveler, Carmen Estrella’s career has jumped from modeling, to a flight attendant, and now to writing children’s stories.
Phil Stephenson, Republican, will square off against Joey Cardenas III, Democrat, and Michael L. Miller, Libertarian, for the Texas House of Representatives District 85 seat in the November election.
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John Brackenridge moved to Jackson County in the 1850s, hoping to find a place to settle his family.
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Business and Citizen of the Year nominations are open to people in Jackson County.
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Delivering the mail worked a little bit differently back when Martha Sembera became La Salle’s postmaster in the 1940s.
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EDNA — Vernon Chapman stood barefoot on his front porch early Tuesday and looked at the water surrounding his home on Gilbert Road.
Counties throughout the Crossroads were bracing for increased levels of rainfall and possible flooding Monday before Tropical Storm Beta was expected to make landfall.
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'Something you could fight with': For rural hospitals, new COVID-19 drug offers promise, uncertainty
As Cuero Regional Hospital’s beds filled with COVID-19 patients in early July, Dr. Jennifer Gonzales grew desperate. Patients from DeWitt County’s nursing homes filled the ICU, struggling to breathe, but there were few approved methods to treat them.
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An inmate at the Jackson County jail was found dead in one of the jail’s showers on Wednesday, Jackson County Sheriff Andy Louderback said.
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Free testing sites have been a fixture in the Crossroads since late April. Military medics wielding cotton swabs and clad in camouflage or plastic gowns traveled across the state in an effort to get Texans tested, including thousands of Crossroads residents. For months, demand and availabili…
Two more students at Edna High School have tested positive for COVID-19, the district’s superintendent said in a letter Tuesday.
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Four people from Edna school district, who attended in-person classes, have tested positive for COVID-19.
Two Edna school district students have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Ganado Medical Clinic is partnering with El Campo Memorial Hospital effective Saturday, according to a news release from the hospital.
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Keep-U-Neat Cleaners in Port Lavaca used to get 300 to 400 laundering and dry cleaning orders a day, employee Mary Alice Briseño said, but with the pandemic suppressing the economy and workers trading formal wear for pajamas, orders dropped by half.
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Two more Victoria County residents with COVID-19 have died, including a man in his 30s, the youngest victim to date in the county.
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A Ganado man was killed after his all-terrain vehicle crashed into a wild hog on a county road Sunday night.
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How are local sheriffs enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott’s July 2 executive order requiring Texans to wear masks? There are as many answers to this question as there are counties in the Crossroads.
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Paramedics go through extensive training so they can help people in medical crises and get them the care they need.
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A Ganado man was booked in the Jackson County Jail on Tuesday evening after he was shot by a Ganado police officer who he allegedly stabbed and punched.
Glenn Martin defeated incumbent Johnny Belicek, who was running for his sixth term, in the Republican runoff for Precinct 3 commissioner in Jackson County.
EDNA – Jackson County switched to a new high-tech electronic voting system with touch-screen kiosks this year.
Edna Christian Academy will host registration for the 2020-21 school year this weekend. Registration is available 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Victoria County reported 146 new COVID-19 cases on Monday.
Incumbent Johnny Belicek is facing challenger Glenn Martin in the Republican primary runoff for Jackson County Commissioner in Precinct 3.
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The coronavirus is so widespread in Victoria that just being in a crowd of people without a mask is enough to consider yourself exposed to the virus, the county’s top health official said Tuesday.
Morris Hopes has been celebrating Juneteenth in Edna since the ‘70s.
The Juneteenth Committee in Edna will host a parade and celebration on Saturday.
The Jackson County Hospital District has opened most hospital services and departments and is ready to safely accept patients, hospital leaders said.
Some congregations shrank when COVID-19 arrived. But Minnehulla Baptist Church in Goliad added worshippers from South Carolina, Louisiana and Uganda.
EDNA – Tiffney Caesar, of Edna, brought J-Con Smith, 6, and Khlil Smith, 4, to a protest at the Jackson County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon. The children danced around an American flag as it flapped in the wind.
A protest against the death of George Floyd at the Jackson County Courthouse planned for Thursday has been called off.
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PORT O’CONNOR – Beachgoers set their masks aside Sunday and donned their swimsuits at King Fisher Beach.
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Edna High School senior Karlee Marthiljohni said one symbolic act was missing from her graduation ceremony.
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Victoria’s annual Memorial Day ceremony will continue with a few slight changes to protect the public from COVID-19.
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Crossroads seniors who missed their proms because of the pandemic are getting another opportunity from Schroeder Hall.
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For Bloomington Superintendent Mark Anglin, graduation is about celebrating the senior class.
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As the state continues to slowly reopen in phases, COVID-19 testing continues. But for some local counties, the turnaround for results is lagging.
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Sounds like they have something in common with certain Victoria County officials 'awarding' of a deal that made no common sense.
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