La Grange News

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.

Prause Meat Market in La Grange makes barbecue the old-fashioned way. That's not surprising when you consider the business has been in the same family for 105 years, and the current pit boss has worked over the hot coals for 40 years.

When a play's director has to stop rehearsals because she and the cast are chuckling too much to continue, that's a pretty good sign that the audience is going to have a good time.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released the top 10 list Monday of the state's 2009 top 10 deadbeat parent s and there's a connection for me, sort of.

Texas Music Matters has identified more than 250 songs about Texasa 'all the way from a Abilenea TM to the a Yoakum Texas Bluesa TM.

There's a chance for rain today and the Central Texas area could use more precipitation for agriculture efforts as well as our lawns, but as this release from Texas A&M University shows , determining just when a drought is over isn't that easy.

Mike Kruft decided to take off on his own Saturday after rain delayed the BP MS 150, leaving his car with Jeff Betters, left, of Katy.

The ride will go on. The first day of the BP MS 150 was rained out Saturday, but participants were set to gather in La Grange this morning to bicycle the second and final leg of the journey to the Capitol in Austin.

The initial leg of an annual 150-mile charity bike ride involving more than 13,000 cyclists raising money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society was washed out Saturday as heavy rains pounded Southeast Texas for a second straight day.

Friday's storms have forced organizers of the BP MS 150 bike race to cancel the leg from Houston to La Grange.

Find out about Lady Bird's Legacy wildflower seeding campaign and donate now. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Good news for wildflowers and those who love them.