Brackettville News

Temperatures should reach the mid- to upper 90s across much of Texas on Monday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Virginia Shahan, widow of rancher Happy Shahan, who owned the movie set called Alamo Village, has died at 93, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

Survived by: Two daughters, Jamie Shahan Rains of Brackenridge; Tulisha Shahan Wardlaw of Brackettville; a son, James Tullis Shahan II of Brackettville; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Services: A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Brackettville.

It's a well known fact employers across the nation boost their manpower during the summer months to handle the busy season, and the Air Force is no exception.

We've all heard of the little drummer boy, but we rarely stop to think how young such boys really were.

Thirty-two miles east of Del Rio, where Las Moras Springs bubbles out of the earth, the town of Brackettville marks the southwestern margin of the Balcones Fault Zone: a 5- to 40-mile-wide sector of ancient tectonic activity that cuts a 200-mile curved swath from Brackettville east and then north to just short of Waco.

Carolyn Young Holman, 95, a beloved, gracious lady and early Rio Grande Valley pioneer, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 3, 2009, in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Two men were detained by federal and local law enforcement officers after a vehicle and foot chase in south Del Rio Friday afternoon.

LS Ranches Texas Longhorn Museum Texas and longhorn cattle go together. Longhorn cattle helped to make Texas the great state it is today.

Rain was moving out of the area at midday today The clouds are giving way to sunshine, and west to southwest wind will help give us a nice warm-up to the 60s.

Diamantina Lopez was call to serve our Lord on December 15, 2008. She was born August 12, 1930 in Del Rio, Texas.