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Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and Batman star with an intense approach, dies at 65
Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman…
MARK KENNEDY and ANDREW DALTON
Apr 2, 2025
Midland City Council Approves Personnel Changes in City Attorney’s Office
The Midland City Council has approved critical leadership changes within the City Attorney’s Office, setting the stage for a strategic...
Josiah Carrasco
Mar 29, 2025
Doctor cites the pope's 'surprising improvement' after surviving life-threatening crises
Pope Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening...
COLLEEN BARRY and TRISHA THOMAS
Mar 29, 2025
A weekend ritual for Trump's Florida die-hards to get a brief glimpse of their political hero
The sun was shining outside President Donald Trump's West Palm Beach golf course on Saturday morning when Alan Mentser got a call letting...
CHRIS MEGERIAN
Mar 29, 2025
Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting misinformation, lies
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation’s top health official for allowing...
MICHAEL CASEY
Mar 29, 2025
OPINION-With Signalgate, the media can show what they learned from 2016
The biggest upside of hunkering down with the fat new bio of longtime SNL producer Lorne Michaels is that it’s veritable Novocaine it num...
Dick Polman
Mar 28, 2025
The Latest: Major earthquakes strike Myanmar and Thailand
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and an aftershock measuring 6.4 rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bri...
The Carrasco Chronicle
Mar 28, 2025
Midland Christian School CFO Rory Waide Arrested on Child Grooming Charges
Rory James Waide, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Midland Christian School, was arrested on March 27, 2025, on charges of child groo...
Josiah Carrasco
Mar 28, 2025
Powerful quake rocks Myanmar and Thailand and kills more than 150 people
A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam. At least 144 people...
DAVID RISING and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
Mar 28, 2025
US judge rules extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel but stops short of requiring air conditioning
US judge rules extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel but stops short of requiring air conditioning...
The Carrasco Chronicle
Mar 26, 2025
OPINION-Jackie Robinson info you won’t get from the MAGA Pentagon
Wow, a chance to write about a baseball player! Thanks, MAGA!...
Dick Polman
Mar 26, 2025
The AP and the Trump administration are due back in court in their fight over White House access
The Associated Press is returning to a federal courtroom on Thursday to ask a judge to restore its full access to presidential events...
David Bauder
Mar 26, 2025
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocks Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as 'Gov. Hot Wheels'
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocked her state’s governor during a weekend appearance, referring to Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair...
THOMAS BEAUMONT
Mar 26, 2025
Things to know about the limited ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine brokered by the US
After three days of intense negotiations, the Trump administration, Ukraine and Russia agreed to a limited ceasefire in which the key...
SAMYA KULLAB
Mar 26, 2025
The Latest: Deportations under Alien Enemies Act still blocked following appeals court ruling
Invoking the law for the first time since World War II, President Donald Trump’s administration deported hundreds of people under a...
Associated Press
Mar 26, 2025
Florida church displays parishioner’s hand-crafted Holy Week dioramas
Parishioners at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Homestead, Florida, again this year can experience the events of Holy Week represented in...
Melodie Woerman
Mar 26, 2025
Trump will announce auto tariffs at a White House news conference
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will announce tariffs on auto imports, a move that the White House claims would foster domestic...
JOSH BOAK
Mar 26, 2025
30 years after music icon Selena's murder, Yolanda Saldívar is up for parole. Here's what to know
Thirty years ago, music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar. For the last three...
MARIA SHERMAN
Mar 26, 2025
Trump will nominate acting CDC director Susan Monarez for the position, White House official says
President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a...
SEUNG MIN KIM, AMANDA SEITZ and MIKE STOBBE
Mar 24, 2025
Midland Celebrates Opening of $16M Reyes-Mashburn-Nelms Baseball Complex
The City of Midland officially celebrated the opening of the renovated Reyes-Mashburn-Nelms Baseball Complex, located at 2101 East Cuthbert,
Josiah Carrasco
Mar 24, 2025
One state jumps into the fray over vaccine exemptions
One state’s effort to exempt young school-aged children from vaccines appears to have stalled as states contend with a burgeoning measles...
LEAH WILLINGHAM
Mar 24, 2025
The Latest: Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat that included a journalist
Top national security officials for President Donald Trumptexted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a...
Associated Press
Mar 24, 2025
Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist
Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military...
TARA COPP, AAMER MADHANI and ERIC TUCKER
Mar 24, 2025
Comedian's jokes about an Indian state leader are being investigated as potential defamation
A comedian popular for his biting political humor is being investigated for possible defamation over jokes made about an Indian state...
Associated Press
Mar 24, 2025
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