Fort Stockton News

The Venable family arrived Wednesday from their home - Goodwell, Okla. - 310 miles north of Abilene for the start of the Original Team Roping Association Finals.

Homeowners in the State of Texas could soon have more trouble finding legitimate contract workers as a major regulatory commission closes its doors for good.

Feeling guilty about dumping your old computer or your broken iPod in the landfill? Still figuring out what to do with that analog-tuner television? Mark down Aug.

Texas' longstanding shortage of prison guards has evaporated significantly in recent months - to the lowest numbers in more than a decade, thanks to a struggling economy and pay incentives that include bonuses and raises.

Another hot day was in store for Texas on Monday with highs around 100 expected throughout the state, according to the National Weather Service.

When Texas Forest Service Regional Fire Coordinator Bill Davis was asked to attend the Fort Stockton Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet, he was glad to go.

Some nights when he can't sleep, Manuel Pina, 84, sits in his son's living room and says the same names over and over.

FORT STOCKTON A large fire gutted part of a Fort Stockton hotel and cut off utilities to an apartment complex, displacing 10 of its residents late Thursday, Fort Stockton volunteer Fire Chief Melvin Thomas said.

CBS7 News Staff June 12, 2009 Fort Stockton- Authorities are looking into what sparked a fire at the Sands Hotel at 9th and Lodal around 11 o'clock last night.. We have not received any reports of injuries so far and efforts were made to find affected motel guests a place to stay.

An attempt to smuggle a group of illegal aliens into the United States through Big Bend National Park turned into a tragedy Wednesday afternoon.

Selling insurance wasn't cutting it for Rex Whitfield. He wanted to return to coaching football.

Fort Stockton ISD released a list of 22 applicants for the head football coach-athletic director position.

Ray Perryman said he won a couple bets when oil passed $65 a barrel last week. The economist predicted oil would get back in the $65 to $70 this year back in February, just as prices were bottoming out.

Thursday's rains apparently weren't enough to keep a fire from lighting up and growing between 400 and 640 acres south of Penwell, multiple firefighters on scene and over the phone Friday afternoon.

Driving Texas is all a matter of perspective. Anyone who's ever rolled across the state with purely pragmatic intentions knows the pain of realizing that, after hours in a near-featureless wasteland, you're still hours outside of the middle of nowhere .

Pro Jim Milson of Odessa, Texas, caught a five-bass limit weighing 15 pounds, 11 ounces Saturday to win the Stren Series Texas Division tournament on Lake Amistad with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 52 pounds, 2 ounces.

In the following press release the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office announced that in 2006, the DA had filed felony charges against Daniel Schrey, 28, formerly of Yucca Valley, involving several counts of Real Estate Fraud.

Claim: Photograph taken in west Texas shows a tornado funnel and lightning bolt alongside a drilling rig.

Nobody knows how many miles Jerry McGuairt has driven during his 44-year career with the Texas Department of Transportation - probably about a million.

FORT STOCKTON: Tucker Beauregard White, a life-long West Texas rancher, passed away on Monday, May 4, 2009 in Fort Stockton, Texas.