Emily Migl and Kaylie Olivarez provided a 1-2 punch that helped the Lady Brahmas lift their first state championship. For that, they've been named the Advocate's All-Area Co-MVPs
Citizens Medical Center cut the ribbon on its ER after two years of construction, with hospital staff and the public getting a preview of the county hospital's $11 million, 19,000-square-foot expansion, which will be operational on June 28.
Cuero has won four state championships and made 11 appearances in the state finals. It's been recognized as one of the best coaching jobs in the state.
Texas Water Safari contestants began the grueling, multiday race that will include hallucinations, changes in currents and 100-degree temperatures.
Victoria craftsman G.B. Van Dusen creates pens out of "found-on-the-ground wood" to stay active in the community and keep busy.
Most spring turkey hunters nowadays hunt with shotguns. And most call the turkeys – instead of hunting near a feeder. Some take a friend along who likes to call gobblers. Believe me, there are guys like that!
State Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat from El Paso, said a special legislative session already planned for later this year should also address gun violence.
Albert Kitchen’s brother-in-law gave him an arm to lean on at the altar Saturday morning as he sang “I Found Love” by BeBe Winans to the woman at the end of the aisle.
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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Three people were injured in a shooting at The Pointe Victoria on Friday night, including one man who engaged with officers and was struck.
A public hearing in the Commissioners Court chamber is required before a property tax abatement agreement for Prairie Energy's proposed oil refinery can be approved by county leaders.
Two men and a woman were injured by gunfire Friday night at a Victoria apartment complex.
After dropping three straight games to open district, back-to-back wins have Goliad feeling confident down the stretch.
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.
After dropping three straight games to open district, back-to-back wins have Goliad feeling confident down the stretch.
The Tigers defeated the Mathis Pirates 47-36 in a District 29-3A game on Friday night at the Goliad ISD Events Center.
Neither Julian Garcia nor Mason Longoria were on the UHV roster last season.
UHV was defeated by Wayland Baptist 1-0 in game one during Friday's doubleheader game at Riverside Stadium.
The West boys were in danger of not medaling in the team category, but they won gold in the last event of the meet to finish in third place overall.
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Texas Water Safari contestants began the grueling, multiday race that will include hallucinations, changes in currents and 100-degree temperatures.
Victoria craftsman G.B. Van Dusen creates pens out of "found-on-the-ground wood" to stay active in the community and keep busy.
Meadow Haven Horse Rescue and Sanctuary has around 150 horses, plus other animals such as dogs and livestock.
Laura Mercado-Wright and Isaac Bustos performed "Songs of Love" in Cuero on Sunday evening at the Chisolm Trail Heritage Museum. The performance was a part of the weeklong Victoria Bach Festival.
The derailed cars could be seen on Saturday twisted and warped like aluminum cans that had been torn in half. Mounds of coal littered the ground as if it were back at the mine.
Victoria County Sheriff Justin Marr told commissioners about 10 inmates at any given time from Wharton County Sheriff Shannon Srubar's jail would be housed here.
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AmieLynn and JamieLynn Finley are omphalopagus twins, meaning they were joined at the abdomen and shared at least one organ, in their case a liver.
After dropping three straight games to open district, back-to-back wins have Goliad feeling confident down the stretch.
Neither Julian Garcia nor Mason Longoria were on the UHV roster last season.
The West boys were in danger of not medaling in the team category, but they won gold in the last event of the meet to finish in third place overall.
“No matter what, until the final buzzer goes off, stay calm and be happy.” That's the approach former Victoria West basketball player Omar Posada is taking as he prepares for surgery to examine a brain tumor doctors feel could be aggresive.
Former Bay City standout Beau Trahan was named the new head coach at Tyler Legacy on Thursday.
After two consecutive years of losing in the state semifinals, Weimar is hoping to build momentum in the regular season and get hot toward the end of the year to make another run.
Columbus native Hayden Leopold will not only be playing for a new head coach, but he’ll be seeking his first winning season when UHV opens its season on Friday at Riverside Stadium.
Sights and sounds from Wednesday night's men's basketball game between Victoria College and Coastal Bend College.
The Pirates trailed by just four points towards the beginning of the second half, however they allowed a 22-6 run which put game out of reach in a 86-68 home loss.
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AmieLynn and JamieLynn Finley are omphalopagus twins, meaning they were joined at the abdomen and shared at least one organ, in their case a liver.
Beginning soon, Meals on Wheels South Texas will bring the area’s first-ever AmeriCorps Seniors Project to the Crossroads.
The hospital is expected to finish its emergency room renovations next week and will open a new advanced heart failure center clinic as revealed at its monthly board meeting Wednesday.
Cuero Regional Hospital is offering a heart screening package at a reduced price during the month of February.
As of Nov. 30, the Texas Department of State Health Services transitioned to reporting COVID-19 hospitalization and case numbers once a week. The department now reports numbers on Wednesdays and will no longer update its online vaccination data dashboard. Hospitalization numbers have also been consolidated into statewide numbers instead of by region. Numbers that are no longer being updated have been starred.
Emily Migl and Kaylie Olivarez provided a 1-2 punch that helped the Lady Brahmas lift their first state championship. For that, they've been named the Advocate's All-Area Co-MVPs
We all deal with loss and pain in different ways. For Edee Holzer (Robin Wright) it means a break from society. She leaves Chicago for a solitary life in the wilderness after purchasing an old log cabin on a Wyoming mountaintop. With no survival skills, cellphone, or vehicle, it doesn’t take…
May I suggest an alternate title for the new Nicolas Cage film? “Willy Wonka’s Fury Road Kills Bill in Little China While Escaping from New York.” Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono makes his English language debut after 50-plus films with “Prisoners of the Ghostland” featuring Cage as our antiher…
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I’m not sure if an apocalyptic thriller is something we need to close out 2020. It’s definitely not the feel-good movie of the year. There is however an omnipresent sense of hope that mankind will survive in “The Midnight Sky,” which features a group of astronauts returning to Earth after sp…
Of the different fables that exist surrounding the name of Knockemstiff, Ohio — the setting for Antonio Campos’ (“Christine”) new film — two of them involve a preacher and one involves a brawl. They all seem appropriate as Tom Holland unleashes his fury on a few nefarious souls as the Avenge…
Based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 best-selling book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” comes the true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, which took place Oct. 3, 2009 as U.S. forces engaged the Taliban in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Afghan War.
In 1973, Hungarian director Peter Medak ran into an old friend, actor Peter Sellers, while strolling down King’s Road in London’s West End. Sellers, already had two Pink Panther films under his belt as well as Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign in preparation of 92 minutes of nerve-racking tension. Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers an intense performance as an American co-pilot on the red-eye from Berlin to Paris when terrorists attempt to hijack the plane. The s…
“The King of Staten Island” is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow (“Trainwreck,” “Funny People,” “Knocked Up”) which was set to debut at SXSW this year.
Welcome to the feel-good movie of the summer. Tracee Ellis Ross (“black-ish”) plays superstar pop singer Grace Davis who’s at the stage in her career that finds most aging artists doing a Vegas residency to cash in on the success of their past hits.
Following a first-rate performance in “The Invisible Man,” which opened just before theaters shuttered, Elisabeth Moss returns as American horror-mystery writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s follow up to 2018’s Sundance smash “Madeline’s Madeline.”
Zoinks! The origins of the Mystery Inc. gang are revealed in the new computer animated Scooby-Doo feature that kids will enjoy more than parents.
For those who love Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” and Chris Carter’s “The X-Files” comes this 1950s sci-fi thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Each year, hundreds of filmmakers look forward to showcasing their latest work at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin. The five-day conference, which began in 1994 as an offshoot of the SXSW music festival, draws people from all the world and for many filmmakers, it’s a vit…
Twenty-one-year-old musician Sidney Flanigan resembles a young Jodie Foster in her acting debut as Autumn, a pregnant teenager who takes a bus from rural Pennsylvania to New York to get an abortion.
Pete Davidson’s character Zeke in Jason Orley’s “Big Time Adolescence” is this generation’s Wooderson, that beloved stoner played by Matthew McConaughey in Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused.” Now imagine if Linklater gave us a closer look at his character’s life. The laughs would fade,…
Director Alex Thompson and writer-actor Kelly O’Sullivan tackle subjects that have been stigmatized in the past, including queer marriage, abortion and postpartum depression, with the new drama “Saint Frances” about a 34-year-old waitress named Bridget (played by O’Sullivan), whose life take…
Movie theaters across the nation are closing this week, including Cinemark in Victoria, as a safety precaution to battle COVID-19. All cinemas in more than 32 international markets already have closed and the box office here in the U.S. dropped significantly last weekend with Disney and Pixa…
Haley Bennett clenches the spotlight for a career-high performance as a submissive housewife suffering from pica, a psychological disorder where she feels compelled to swallow inanimate and sometimes dangerous objects. As the compulsion intensifies her Cinderella marriage begins to crumble a…
Eighty-seven years after Claude Raines played the invisible man during Universal Pictures’ three-decade reign of iconic monsters, writer-director Leigh Whannell reboots the character that seems humdrum when compared to counterparts, Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy.
'Ordinary Love' Review: Neeson and Manville appear together for the first time in the touching drama
Playwright Owen McCafferty wrote “Ordinary Love” after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The experience inspired the semi-autobiographical story as a couple played by Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville undertake a similar journey.
Silent but deadly. Kitty Green’s muted Telluride Film Festival debut seems aimed at Harvey Weinstein as Julia Garner plays Jane an assistant working for a Tribeca film production company run by a manipulative mogul who is heard but never seen.
When a movie begins with a quote from William Shakespeare and Beyoncé, it’s a sign that you’re about to watch a comedy. And when the director is Ant Timpson (the producer of “The Greasy Strangler,” “Turbo Kid” and “ABCs of Death”), you can bet it will be dark, bloody and gross.
“The main thing that I always tried to be was … a good girl.” – Taylor Swift
While most of us are familiar with the movie “Joker” which received the most Oscar nominations with 11, and many of the other Best Picture nominees including the Netflix originals “The Irishman” and “A Marriage Story,” the shorts category is one that seems to elude most movie lovers. Many of…
The most surprising thing about “Underwater” is that 20th Century Fox (now rebranded as 20th Century by new owners Disney) didn’t use the line “From the studio that brought you Alien” to promote this three-year-old film. But then again that may be overkill since this brazen deep-sea imitatio…
Long before streaming and iPhones, VHS tapes were the medium of choice when it came to watching movies, recording television shows and capturing special moments with a camcorder.
There are 9 million people living in Mexico City and only 45 emergency ambulances operated by the government. The densely populated capital city has been overrun by private ambulances competing for business, just like the one run by the Ochoa family in “Midnight Family” from director Luke Lo…
Sam Mendes, the director behind the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” took home an Oscar for his 1999 directorial debut “American Beauty.” 20 years later he’s poised to do it again with a film inspired by the World War I stories told by his grandfather. “1917” is an immersive experie…
Anyone who’s ever read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” should appreciate the latest spin on racial injustice in the South from writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”). Cretton adapts lawyer-turned-author Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy” with a talented cast deliveri…
Butterflies are particular about the flowers they use for food and reproduction, so gardeners should know which plants are attractive.
Environmental activist Diane Wilson led a celebration with other local environmentalists to celebrate the U.S. Army C…
Local environmental advocates are celebrating the withdrawal of an environmental assessment key to plans for expanding the Port of Calhoun. Port officials say the withdrawal could result in the loss of taxpayer money and hurt the local economy.
Tom Preiss, who runs a photography business, found a 4-foot gator near his home by Riverside Park. Preiss snapped a picture of the carnivorous reptile and notified TPWD officials.
Beets, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower grown in Victoria County last December struggled to survive when freezing conditions visited the area.