Colorado City News

Pete Kampfer, city manager of Colorado City, confirmed Thursday he is leaving the Mitchell County town to assume new responsibilities in Raton, New Mexico.

"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious and religious prejudice." -Carter G. Woodson, an African-American historian, author, journalist and founder of the Association for the Study of ... (more)

Houston White may be one of the oldest Rotarians in the world, but he still enjoys life in East Texas.

After around only an hour and a half of deliberations, a five-woman, seven-man jury found Julian Castillo not guilty of indecency with a child by contact on Thursday evening, Jan.

Not much is reported to have survived a weekend fire that burned the site of a church held in a former livestock auction building in Colorado City, authorities said.