Alice News

A report from television station KIII on Tuesday's pickup truck wreck near Alice: UPDATE: A state trooper has provided details of the accident.

A pickup hauling at least 18 people plunged off a more than 40-foot embankment and came to rest upside down south of Alice.

Work is busily underway to get downtown Palestine ready for a visit from Santa Claus.

"Mama Drama" begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 2:30 p.m. Nov.

Taft High School will march in the prelims of the Class A/2A contest at 1:13 p.m. Monday.

TxDOT: I-37 from US 77 to Nueces River Bridge right lane closed until 5 p.m. One lane of I-37 northbound closed for road testing TxDOT: I-37 northbound right lane from Sharpsburg Road to Nueces River Bridge - Voters in Brooks, Jim Hogg and Jim Wells counties approved creating a groundwater conservation district, however city of Alice voters opted ...

Landowners, land managers, county managers and volunteer firefighters in Jim Wells County interested in learning about prescribed burning and the South Texas Prescribed Burn Association will have an opportunity on Fri., Nov.

Two San Antonio area high school marching bands competed Monday in the University Interscholastic League's state competition, an annual contest held at the Alamodome at which a handful of marching bands perform.

A proposed Brush Country Groundwater Conservation District is a way for Brooks, Jim Wells and Jim Hogg counties to control how much of an increasingly limited and valuable resource is drained out from under them, proponents say.

Guadalupe Zaragoza was a passenger in a 2003 Nissan Frontier pickup that was struck while attempting to turn from westbound State Highway 44 onto County Road 133.

Alice Independent School District Superintendent Sal Cavazos said the district has $18.4 million from a 2004 bond to construct a school or two schools to house fifth- and sixth-graders who attend Dubose Intermediate and Memorial Intermediate.

The event also will offer the chance to learn about the South Texas Prescribed Burn Association and will be held on Nov.

Sergio Trigo, a senior at Alice High School, was crowned Homecoming King during the Alice Coyote homecoming event Oct 9. He is the son of Javier and Janie Trigo.

There are 1,295 show animals entered this year including cattle, horses, pigs, poultry, rabbits, sheep and goats, said Jim Wells County Fair Association treasurer Jody Raska.

Jaliscos offers some of the best Mexican food in Alice. You will find it packed at lunch and dinner.

Dozens of animals have been confiscated from a home in the Alice area because there was plenty of evidence of abuse and neglect.

Testimony is expected to begin Thursday in Jim Wells County in Samantha Carr's trial.

Dozens of animals have been confiscated from a home in the Alice area because there was plenty of evidence of abuse and neglect.

Investigators, acting on an anonymous tip, raided a piece of property on County Road 117 just outside the Alice city limits, where they found emaciated horses, pigs, chickens, dogs and cats, animal authorities said.

Investigators in Alice are trying to track down an arsonist who set at least two fires this week.