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A home and a pickup were hit by shots fired in the 4900 block of Dody Street Friday, police said.

Unlike their counterparts in other colleges, music students and faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have had to rearrange classrooms to accommodate their needs at least four times per day because of lack of space, an official said.

Nueces County Sheriff’s Office Capt. William Edge said a farmer was doing work on his tractor Wednesday in a grain field located west of County Road 81, when he came across some garbage and plastic storage container tied with a rope.

Corpus Christi police dive team postponed the recovery of what they believe is van that was swept downstream the Nueces River, near Labonte Park Friday.

A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist.

Days after deadly flooding swelled the banks of the Blanco River, First United Methodist Church associate pastor Monte English traveled to Wimberley.

Daniel Garcia said one right thing in an expletive-laced confession in which he blamed Mostafa "Ben" Bighamian for causing his own death, the slain man's daughter said. Bighamian was a hero.

Services for a Corpus Christi woman and two children swept away by floodwaters in Wimberley will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church, 3115 Ocean Drive.

Six men and three women were sentenced to prison Thursday for crimes related to a drug trafficking operation that spanned from California to Rio Grande Valley, a Department of Justice news release states.

A man who killed a beloved store owner said he keeps a photo of his victim in his Bible. Daniel Garcia, 27, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for killing Mostafa "Ben" Bighamian. Garcia told the Caller-Times after his sentencing that he's made peace with Bighamian while in the Nueces County Jail.