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Knowing the long-awaited playoff game between the undefeated Refugio and Shiner football teams was going to be a “stadium buster,” Oscar and Minh Dimas started making plans early.
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Refugio police on Monday arrested a man after responding to a home where a 26-year-old resident was shot and later died.
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The Texas Rangers are investigating an accusation that Woodsboro High School students, dressed as Ku Klux Klan members, shocked a Black teenager with a Taser or stun gun on Halloween night, an attorney says.
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In the late-90s, when the Billy T. Cattan Outreach Recovery Center began operating from a small, humble office space, Susan Rybak thought the idea of a local inpatient residential facility to address substance abuse in the region was a dream.
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Small businesses in the Coastal Bend region looking to purchase new equipment, machinery, commercial vehicles or even real estate can get help with their purchases through a loan program offered by LiftFund, in partnership with the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
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Attorney Jhiela “Gigi” Poynter announced her candidacy for Refugio County judge this week.
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Riverside Park and roads on the southwest edge of downtown were flooded Monday as the Guadalupe River approached a crest of 30 feet for the first time since Hurricane Harvey.
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A former Refugio County sheriff’s lieutenant who pocketed a $50 bill from an investigation scene will never again serve as a peace officer, prosecutors said Friday.
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Authorities have obtained warrants for three people they say participated in an apartment robbery that left one person dead in September.
The League of Women Voters Victoria and the Victoria Advocate will host a Victoria school district Community Forum from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Victoria College Student Center.
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Refugio’s National Night Out has been canceled, according to an announcement made by the Refugio Police Department.
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The Refugio Volunteer Fire Department will host its 28th annual chicken fried steak dinner fundraiser on Monday for Labor Day.
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REFUGIO — Dozens of first responders from across South Texas gathered to honor the memory of one of their own Saturday morning.
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A few years ago, Wanda Dukes, the mayor of Refugio, was returning from an emergency planning meeting in Sinton with Refugio’s longtime fire chief, Don Pullin, when Pullin noticed a truck stuck by the train tracks in Woodsboro.
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REFUGIO — It took 1,438 days after Hurricane Harvey destroyed Refugio’s fire station to build a new one. Fire Chief Ronnie Williams was counting.
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PORT LAVACA — On Friday morning, as two respiratory therapists stood by a patient’s bedside in the ICU at Memorial Medical Center in Port Lavaca, nurse Maria Longoria dialed hospitals statewide in search for an open bed. For six days, the hospital had been trying to transfer the patient, who…
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Joseph L. Galloway, a Refugio native who is well known as a foreign correspondent and co-author of a best-selling book that was turned into a critically-acclaimed 2002 film, died Wednesday at the age of 79 in Concord, N.C.
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More than 30 immigrants, who authorities said suffered “inhuman” conditions inside the back of a U-Haul truck, were detained during a Monday evening stop in northern Refugio County, Sheriff Raul “Pinky” Gonzales said.
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The Refugio County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found by deputies Thursday as a likely smuggling incident.
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WOODSBORO — Tuttle’s Grocery and Meat Market bustled with a surge of Thursday afternoon shoppers. In the back of the store behind the meat counter, Stanley Tuttle and his sons hand cut each of their meats.
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Cuero didn’t run out of water during the freeze in February, but it came close.
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A district judge dismissed on Monday the lesser of two charges faced by a Refugio police officer accused of injuring an infant with pepper spray during an arrest.
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With a 10-card-high hand, Martin Cano bluffed his earnings to 80 times their worth on Saturday and won the World Series of Refugio Texas Hold ‘em benefit.
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A citizen’s tip led to the detention of at least 11 migrants authorities think were in the country illegally Monday afternoon, Raul “Pinky” Gonzales, sheriff for Refugio County, said Tuesday.
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It’s been almost four years since Hurricane Harvey tore three giant holes in the roof of Refugio County’s Memorial Hospital, allowing water to pour down through the 20-bed facility and destroy the hospital’s operating room.
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When Seadrift residents found themselves trapped inside their homes during February’s winter freeze, local police sprang into action.
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