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A little-known Kansas company is at the center of a controversy about whether Victoria County spent Hurricane Harvey recovery money in the taxpayers’ interests.
Rain poured down the old shingle walls of the Callis Street house owned by Jesus Ruiz Jr., 67, when Hurricane Harvey hit two years ago.
BLOOMINGTON – Every time Carol White pulls up to her home on Old Bloomington Road, she cannot help but smile at the color.
When we asked for selfies of our readers and their cats, we hoped the turnout would rival that of our past, canine-themed contest. Kitty enthusiasts delivered, sending more than 50 shots of their favorite furballs. The range of expression was entertaining – while some of the submitted photos…
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U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud is hosting a panel discussion about border security with local and federal officials at UHV.
Line up for parade participants is at 8 a.m. The parade begins at 9:30 a.m. Line up along North Street between Patti Welder School and the Victoria Community Center.
The Swiss Alp Dance Club presents "The Lost Cause"
Victoria Livestock Show Carnival
Visitors of all ages are invited to come and learn about basic camping skills and Texas wildlife. Learn to build a fire or catch a fish from a real kayak. There is no additional fee, as the exhibit is included in the regular entry fee.
For walkers to age 3 with a parent or caregiver. Stories, repetitive songs, finger plays, and activities to encourage early language development and social skills.
Learn about the differences between normal aging and dementia and how different parts of the brain are affected by dementia. Discover our unique and positive approach to dementia care and techniques to provide effective care. Presented by Senior Helpers of Victoria. Please RSVP to 361-894-89…
Victoria Emergency Management, in partnership with National Weather Service Corpus Christi, and the University of Houston – Victoria is providing a SkyWarn Storm Spotter training class. To register for this class, visit https://tinyurl.com/ydd37t3j. For more information about the SkyWarn pro…
Visit victorialivestockshow.com for a complete schedule of events. The auction is Monday. Buyer registration is at 3 p.m. the livestock auction is at 4:30 p.m.
HALLETTSVILLE – Blake Sitka doesn’t need to be reminded of last season’s woes.
The 2019 Rolling Thunder summer league came to an end last Thursday with Tom Crowe firing strikes. He rolled individu…
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Let us dispense with the argument up front. Top 5 or Top 10 lists are very subjective — especially when you are talking all-time lists.
Music is very subjective. It has the power to take you back in time, to relive memories both powerful and emotional.
For example, I remember listening to America's Top 40 every Sunday night as a kid as I was getting ready for the upcoming school week. I still remember Casey Kasem reading the long-distance dedications, his voice choking with emotion as he conveyed the messages.
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A little-known Kansas company is at the center of a controversy about whether Victoria County spent Hurricane Harvey recovery money in the tax…
Jessica Priest
Environment/Investigations Reporter
Rain poured down the old shingle walls of the Callis Street house owned by Jesus Ruiz Jr., 67, when Hurricane Harvey hit two years ago.
Elena Watts
Features Editor
BLOOMINGTON – Every time Carol White pulls up to her home on Old Bloomington Road, she cannot help but smile at the color.
Kali Venable
Public Safety Reporter
When we asked for selfies of our readers and their cats, we hoped the turnout would rival that of our past, canine-themed contest. Kitty enthu…
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My oldest child just started her senior year of high school, so we are in full college application mode at our house.
A Victoria man who has been sick since March remains undiagnosed, as doctors across Texas struggle to figure out what is impairing his ability to breathe.
The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
The largest blood supplier in the Victoria area is urging residents to donate blood this month as Texas faces a critical blood shortage.
The Texas Medical Board reversed an earlier decision that stripped a former Victoria doctor of his medical license, instead vacating its earlier order and clearing the doctor.
One of rock ’n’ roll’s most iconic figures, David Crosby, is the subject of the new Cameron Crowe produced documentary “Remember My Name.” His glory days may be behind him, but the singer-songwriter who made history with The Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Yo…
An accurate slice of adolescent life is portrayed in Hari Sama’s coming of age drama that takes place in the new wave post-modern scene of 1986 Mexico. Xabiani Ponce De León and José Antonio Toledano deliver first-rate performances as 17-year old best friends who discover sex, drugs, and lib…
If you only see one movie about a lobotomist this summer, make it Rick Alverson’s “The Mountain.”
The evil that men do in Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale” is far more frightening than any monster from her 2014 horror debut “The Babadook.”
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature serves as the filmmaker’s ode to the glory days of Hollywood. A fable existing in an alternate universe during the late ’60s as an aging Western star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) take life one day at a time.
If you translated the Zulu opening of the iconic song “Circle of Life” the line “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba, Sithi uhm ingonyama” just means “There comes a lion, Oh yes, it's a lion.” Yeah.
Resembling an obscure 80s horror film that could have been discovered in a vault or better yet a crypt, “Luz” marks the debut of German filmmaker Tilman Singer. Screened last year at Fantastic Fest and rolling into theaters this Friday, the 70-minute tale of possession is heavy on atmosphere…
Writer-director Lulu Wang’s semi-autobiographical “The Farewell” is, according to the writer-director, “Based on an Actual Lie.”
When Wes Craven’s “Scream” opened in 1996, its success took the studio and theaters by surprise. In fact, the local Cinemark opted to put it in their dollar cinema on opening day. “Crawl” may be headed for a similar success once word of mouth spreads even though Paramount chose not to screen…
It sounds like a Nicholas Sparks novel: Two star-crossed lovers in their mid-20s meet on a beautiful Greek island. She becomes the muse that jump-starts his singing career. They grow apart and eventually go their separate ways but remain on each other’s mind for the rest of their lives. At t…
Last year Alfonso Cuarón’ gave us a glimpse of Mexico City’s past with “Roma” centered around a live-in maid named Cleo. This year Lila Avilés brings us into the present with a story about a single mom named Eve (Gabriela Cartol), who works as a chambermaid at Mexico City’s luxurious Hotel P…
Ari Aster burst onto the scene last year with “Hereditary” a cryptic supernatural thriller reminiscent of horror films from the late 60s-early 70s known for building tension and delivering shocks.
There is a scene in “Annabelle Comes Home” where a haunted typewriter in The Warren’s Occult Museum begins to type “Miss Me?” after everyone’s favorite demonically possessed doll Annabelle is unleashed from her protective glass box.
Jessie Buckley is a revelation as an aspiring country singer living in Glasgow who dreams of making it to Nashville. The Irish-born actress, who delivered a knockout performance in last year’s “Beast,” is also a classically trained musician and runner up on the BBC talent show “I’d Do Anything.”
Academy Award-winning director Denys Arcand (“The Barbarian Invasions”) once again explores society’s downfall in a tale about greed, corruption, and extravagance.
Out of all the films I’ve screened so far this year, Joe Talbot’s “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” made the biggest impact. It brought the wow factor. At times, I felt like I was watching a mesmerizing play as the characters, dialogue, and plot complemented each other forming a visual p…
Jim Jarmusch covered vampires in 2014 with “Only Lovers Left Alive” and now after drawing inspiration from George A. Romero, the indie king sets his sights on zombies, ghouls, the undead.
If someone on the street offered you an all-expense paid trip to Egypt would you take them up on the offer? Entrepreneur Tarek Mounib, a Canadian Egyptian and practicing Muslim, had an epiphany one day while riding the rails in Switzerland.
In the ’70s, fashion designer Halston was a force to be reckoned with. Born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines, Iowa, he began his career making hats, eventually becoming the head milliner at Bergdorf Goodman.
Imagine if one of your favorite artists passed away, doesn’t matter what medium, and all their work was bought up by one individual and sealed away. Let’s use Prince as an example. If someone purchased his archives, songs, notes, guitars, etc., and sealed it all away from fans and family it …
“Ghost Fleet” sounds like it could be the latest release from Blumhouse Productions, but the documentary from filmmakers Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron is more frightening than any fabricated specter. Next time you head to the supermarket to pick up the catch of the day you may want to …
John Lithgow and Blythe Danner are a pleasure to watch in Noble Jones’ charming film about two seniors who find love as Lithgow’s character would say, “on the wrong side of 60.” At a time when monsters, maniacs and Marvel rule the box office, “The Tomorrow Man” is a refreshing film that move…
To take a cue from Paul Mazursky’s 1969 film, writer-director Olivier Assayas’ French film could have easily been titled “Léonard & Valerie & Alain & Selena” as infidelity in the literary world becomes the matter at hand for this talk-heavy feature from the director behind “Perso…
If you want peace, prepare for war — or as they say in Latin, “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” That phrase sums up the third installment of the John Wick series featuring Keanu Reeves as the excommunicated assassin with a $14 million bounty on his head.
Two solid performances drive Edward Zwick’s “Trial by Fire” with Jack O’Connell as Cameron Todd Willingham, a Corsicana, Texas, man who was wrongly executed in 2004 for murdering his three young children by arson, and Laura Dern as poet and schoolteacher Elizabeth Gilbert who met Willingham …
Writer Shirley Jackson is best known for her fifth novel “The Haunting of Hill House” which was turned into a feature film by Robert Wise in 1963 and then again in 1999 with Jan de Bont at the helm. “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” is based on Jackson’s 1962 novel and final work which ma…
At times, the bleak seaside village in “Dogman” resembles a post-apocalyptic wasteland from George Miller’s world, but instead of a rugged former cop named Max, we’re stuck with a scrawny dog groomer named Marcello (Marcello Fonte) in what could be alternatively titled, “Mad Marcello: Furbal…
The title of African writer-director Wanuri Kahiu’s sixth film “Rafiki” is Swahili for “Friend” but in her native Kenya, the word is also used to describe or introduce the partner of someone in a same-sex relationship because of the state’s strict anti-gay stance. The LGBTQ community has no …
Thirty-seven whooping crane chicks fledged in Canada, officials announced Wednesday.
AUSTWELL – Until recently, if you wanted to watch fiddler crabs skitter across the tidal flats at the Aransas Nationa…
On any day, a walk along the Guadalupe River should be greeted with nothing more than a natural and peaceful view. Bu…
AUSTWELL – Sometimes fire is just what the doctor ordered.
