Area Girl Scouts have picked up their inventory of Girl Scout cookies to deliver to their customers and prepare for the Cookie Booth season that kicked off Feb. 20. More...

In keeping with his new spirit of compromise, President Barack Obama has offered a health-care bill staking out middle ground between House and Senate Democrats. At $950 billion, it’s more expensive than the Senate bill, but cheaper than the House bill, and mixes and matches sundry tax proposals. More...

Veronica Ramon of Driscoll ISD was among a group of school board members gathering in Corpus Christi February 11-13 to learn the latest on 21st century challenges to leadership and how those trends have implications for educators. More...

Rodolfo “Rudy” Guajardo, 49, of Bishop, died Feb. 28, 2010, in Corpus Christi. He was born May 3, 1960, to Ignacio “Nacho” and Soila G. Guajardo in Kingsville. He was a self-employed carpenter. He enjoyed fishing, listening to music and being with family and friends. More...

EAGLES TRACK Presbyterian Pan American School’s track team competed at the Asics Invitational meet held at Javelina Stadium on Saturday. More...

AUSTIN – Texas is the first, and so far only, state to meet all the American Diploma Project’s five key college and career readiness measures, Achieve, a national bipartisan organization, announced today. In a report called Closing the Expectations Gap, Achieve said “Texas has the most comprehensive approach to college and career ready accountability.” More...