La Grange News

Senior radiological health engineering student Matthew Heintschel has been involved with Aggie traditions since he first stepped foot onto Texas A&M University.

Fayette County sheriffa s deputies said the overnight burglary of a convenience store in West Point Tuesday was an inside job.

The driest spot in Texas, according to researchers, is just east of Austin in Bastrop County.

Katherine Schlafli Cagney, a fourth generation Texan, died peacefully of natural causes on Aug.

Katherine Schlafli Cagney, a fourth generation Texan, died peacefully of natural causes on Aug.

Rob Gandy, manager of First National Bank in Austin, said he has been around banking "since I can remember." A couple of 20-something Austin businessmen are teaming to buy a La Grange bank with plans to expand and eventually move its headquarters to Austin.

Spc. Joshua Farris, 22, from La Grange was laid to rest Saturday in Johnson City.

Its owner, Alice Burnside, was in a nursing home in nearby La Grange. Her family members stopped by when they could to check on it, but most lived too far away to maintain it.

Spc. Joshua R. Farris A 10th Mountain Division Soldier from Fort Drum was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Afghanistan Thursday.

The Texas banking merger and acquisition market that slowed to a crawl in 2008 has virtually come to halt.

Shoe Closet owner Becky Lindemann inventories shoes in her store, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

M.G. Perez who is a former TV news reporter with KXAN-TV Austin, KFMB-TV San Diego, KGO-TV San Francisco and WNBC-TV emailed me about the latest production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Noel 'Peanut' Tiedt was what many called a 'man's' man. He was a simple, straightforward and honest man.

'I never thought I would come face to face with a gun,' says Jordan Sheehy, who was wounded in the May 29 shooting at Spiros.

A nightclub that the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission shut down after a shooting will not reopen.

Police said the two men wanted for open firing at a crowd outside at a nightclub in Downtown Austin, wounding eight people, have turned themselves in.

Brandon Bruce Hutchison and LaBaaron Demon Hutchison are in custody in connection with the shooting.

The hip-hop group behind this morning's shooting outside Spiro's has now been identified as the " LG Allstarz " from La Grange, Texas.

Ella Mae Giles, 101, died Sunday, May 24, 2009, at a local medical center. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am Friday at Macedonia Baptist Church, with Pastor Matthew M. Lubin officiating, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 542 Hickory, with burial following in Abilene Municipal Cemetery.