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You may have seen some very funny videos from Victoria Police Crime Prevention officers Chris Guerra and John Turner on Facebook. You may have also seen an article in yesterday's Victoria Advocate about the success of their humorous approach. The two have done numerous videos on a wide range of law enforcement related topics, and even have their own You Tube channel. Here is a compilation of some

That's right, the holiday season is fast approaching which means it's time for the annual Marines Toys for Tots campaign. This year Toys For Tots and Blue Santa are teaming up to raise enough toys for over 5,000 kids in the Crossroads area...

Another week down and I must admit (hopefully without jinxing anything) that I've felt better the past two weeks than I've felt in a long time. I went to my Cardio Electrophysiologist appointment yesterday fully expecting to have to go through the procedure where they go in through the artery in my thing into my heart and burn a section to bring my beats down...

Greetings people who follow me religiously....or if this is your first time reading then welcome. It's been an interesting week since I last posted. I had a bad stomach flare up and let me tell you, throwing up stuff that is non existent in your stomach hurts and hurts bad...

Attention Victoria Suddenlink subscribers. If you woke up this morning to turn on Nickelodeon for the kiddos you noticed....it's no longer available. That's because as of midnight last night, Suddenlink dropped all Viacom programming from it's lineup...

Well I wish there was different, more exciting news to report this week but alas...there is not. In fact, I think as far as feeling sick goes, this week can be ranked up there with the worst. I went to my General Physician last week just to try and get a handle on the fevers I was having...

Here we are already at Volume 5.....where does the time go? Well, there is a lot to report this week. I haven't been doing so well lately and if you follow me on Facebook you already knew that. My fevers have gotten more and more frequent and even higher than they should be...

Well here we are at week 4 of my journey with my new best friend Lupus. Last week I talked about the naysayers and the "But you don't look sick" people and I guess the moral of the story can be don't judge. You are fighting your own battles and you have no idea what battles anyone else is fighting so think about that before passing judgement...

As I disclosed last week, I was recently diagnosed with a lifelong autoimmune disease called Lupus (If you aren't familiar with it you can read about it in Vol 1.). I decided to blog about it once a week to not only draw awareness to the disease but to also take ownership of it...

Chrissy Amerson, a Cade Middle School English language arts teacher, has been named a finalist for Texas Teacher of the Year. "It's surreal," Amerson said. "I tried very hard with the essays; I poured a lot of thought into them." Amerson wrote five essays as part of the application process for the Texas Association of School Administrators' teaching competition...

For those of you who are friends with Randy Duke and follow him on Facebook you already know how he's doing but for those of you who don't here's an update. Randy has had surgery to repair his broken pelvis. He remains confined to a bed in a San Antonio hospital...

The Victoria City-County Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties. In the inspection reports, each violation in the food temperature/time requirements category is 5 demerits; in the personnel/handling/source requirements category, 4 demerits; and in the facility and equipment requirements, 3 demerits... R