"Sinners" set an all-time Oscar record receiving 16 nominations, and director Ryan Coogler has a Port Arthur connection. Here's what Coogler said about his local roots.

Central Texas boys high school soccer is in the thick of district play. Here's the American-Statesman's team of the week for Feb. 16-21.

It’s not that I hate surprises, it’s just that I tend to feel better when they aren’t … you know … around. Surprises that so ...

LeBrun, passed away on February 12, 2026, at the age of 63. Born on August 17, 1962, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Ann enriched the lives of many with her warmth ...

The wait is over. Blooming Grove's Lady Lions opened the 2026 season at home with an 11-1 five-inning, Mercy Rule victory over Waco Connally, and yes, it felt like a long wait to get to the 2026 ...

Former Mexia head football coach Aaron Nowell has confirmed with 25 News that he is the new defensive coordinator for ...

The cat always looks angry. Even when I’m minding my own business, and she pads over to the couch to plunk herself down on my lap – as her fearless sense of ownership often compels her to do when ...

Debt Settlements Issue of Equity ADM Energy PLC (AIM: ADME; BER and FSE: P4JC), a natural resource investing company, announces that further to the Subsidiary Financing and the Investment ...

Serving Limestone County, Texas and local communities including Mexia, Teague, Wortham, Coolidge, with news, sports, business and community information ...

I often think author and activist Arundhati Roy introduced me to mortality in her novel, The God of Small Things. Since reading her haunting, poetic prose when the volume was published in 1997, I have ...

Funeral services for Fritzie Connally, 90 of Lexington, Texas, were held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, January 30, 2026, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Lexington, with Father Andrew Dinh officiating.

UIL held its biennial realignment Monday. Here are all of Central Texas' new football districts as well as some few others around the Austin area.