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City officials estimate the weekend water boil advisory will cost the city under $20,000 in labor and supplies, but the bigger cost will come in a few years if leaders opt to replace the Flour Bluff water tower.

An Alice man's aggravated assault charge was upgraded to murder Monday after a 48-year-old man he is accused of shooting died Friday, Alice police said.

The question of how to bankroll repairs for an estimated $881 million problem will again return to council chambers in City Hall.

Former vice president of distributions operations for AEP Texas was named president and chief operating officer of the company, an AEP news release states.

A 52-year-old man was apprehended Monday at a trailer park in the southern part of Beeville after escaping from the county jail Sunday evening while doing his trustee duties.

The Boy Scouts of America's top policy-making board planned a vote Monday on ending its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion if that accorded with their faith.

The water boil advisory for Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is over.

TEQUESTA, Fla. — A U.S. Navy ship has joined the on-going large-scale search for two missing teen boaters —  a search that now extends to the Florida-Georgia state line,  the Coast Guard and Tequesta Police Chief Christopher Elg said Monday.

AUSTIN — If campaign finance totals are any indication, the state's top leadership won't be seeing a shake-up any time soon.

Police arrested a suspected drunken driver whose vehicle struck several cars, a golf cart, and part of a building on Padre Island early Sunday.