Frankston News

Summer 2009 is heating up outside and inside the Texas Theatre with the Palestine Community Theatre embroiled in rehearsal for the musical "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Jared Cook and under the musical direction of Chandra Dantin.

What links a purple cow to a project developing automated fasteners for the U.S. Navy? The ingenuity of Mike and Donna Rainone and their concept development team.

By VANESSA CURRY Contributing Writer Familiarity with a biennial survey of the Texas Public Information Act may be skewing overall compliance rates and promoting unequal treatment in the process.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is the full version of church news as the churches sent the news in.

Crabb Revival concert Saturday The Nashville based Gospel group Crabb Revival will present a free concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Palestine.

Destruction of a flag, University Drive. A flag was stolen and damaged after unknown suspects dragged it down the street.

An Anderson County commissioner is expected to address the commissioners' court during Monday's regular meeting in regards to a storage facility for the county.

One man has decided to take legal action against the Frankston Police Department for what he calls foul play, and he says he has the surveillance video to prove it.

By CASEY KNAUPP Staff Writer A Smith County murder defendant appeared in court Thursday and received a July trial date.

With city elections a day away, local election officials are preparing for Saturday's 12 hours of voting.

It was another Cheap Eats day and I was all set to go until... What happened to my lunch last week," KLTV 7 weatherman Mark Scirto asked me.

Five years ago inside his Frankston residence, Fred Hayes, in the twilight of his life, was brutally murdered by a woman 28 years his junior.

Haley Barnett of Old Cayuga 4-H showed the grand champion registered breeding heifer Wednesday at the Anderson County Youth Livestock Show.

No one was injured during a Monday afternoon fire which damaged Brenda's Country Kettle restaurant in Frankston.

People from all over Texas descended upon Palestine for the 7th annual Texas Music Awards - filling up the Palestine Civic Center with cowboy boots, cowboy hats and high heels Sunday.

Child Protective Services has been investigating the couple for neglect and abuse.

Anderson County sheriff's authorities have a 19-year-old Frankston man behind bars and hope to make additional arrests in connection with the theft of 10 Black Angus cows earlier this month.

Anderson County authorities say they have identified "persons of interest" in connection with last week's theft of 10 Black Angus cows in the Frankston area.

Framed family photos and a photo blanket adorn the walls of Margaret Pickard's cozy living room, photos of children and grandchildren but especially of one grandson, Spc.

A jury in Conroe convicted a man of capital murder in the 2007 shooting death of his landlord.