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The Zavala County Sentinel is a weekly local newspaper circulated throughout Zavala County, Texas and part of Uvalde County, Texas. The Crystal City-based newspaper was founded by J. H. Hardy in La Pryor, Texas, and began operations in May 1913. The newspaper circulates through Crystal City, Uvalde, Batesville, and La Pryor. [2]
Farias grew up in the housing projects of Crystal City, Texas. She was high school valedictorian and earned a scholarship to attend Boston University, where she received a B.A. with honors. Farias has a J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and was a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. [3]
Crystal City is a city in and the county seat of Zavala County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 6,354 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] It was settled as a farming and ranching community and was a major railroad stop being 110 miles (180 km) from San Antonio .
Crystal City organized home guards for protection against Villa's associates. By 1930, Crystal City was overwhelmingly composed of Hispanic Americans. That year, Zavala County had the highest percentage of laborers (1,430 per 100 farms) and the lowest percentage of tenants (33 per 100 farms) of all counties in South Texas.
A head-on collision in Texas killed seven people and seriously injured two children Thursday, officials said. The crash occurred around 4:40 p.m. local time on FM 1433, about eight miles north of ...
Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas.Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission.
Rivera was born on December 22, 1935, in Crystal City, Texas, to Spanish-speaking, migrant farmworkers, Florencio and Josefa Rivera. At eleven years old, Rivera was in a car accident in Bay City, Michigan. After the accident, Rivera decided to write his first story about the wreck and called it "The Accident". [2]
Memorial stele at the site of the WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans in Crystal City, Texas. Date: 2 December 2015, 18:26: Source: US 83 TX Crystal City ...