A woman and her daughter-in-law escaped without injury when a fire broke out in their mobile home late Monday night.

Rob-Sten mania - as MTV calls it - has struck in Abilene, and the new movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is apparently just what rabid fans of human-friendly vampire hunk Edward Cullen and mortal chick Bella Swan want.

Bryce Davis, 29, of Abilene won the aggregate title at the National Finals Steer Roping Championships and was the only roper to tie all 10 steers in the event for a total time of 137.9 seconds.

Incident reports released Wednesday by the Abilene Police Department: Theft, 600 block of Bacon Drive, Monday An unknown suspect took the victim's cash out of her purse while she was at work.

A swine flu clinic is planned today now that the Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District has received a sizable amount of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

Both Abilene High School and Cooper High School fine arts students ranked high among Texas schools on the 2009 AP Exams.

Posted November 18, 2009 at 5 p.m. Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News Dancers perform during a rehearsal for "The Nutcracker" Monday evening at the Paramount Theatre.

" The Texas AgriLife Extension Service office in Abilene will conduct the Landscape and Ornamentals Symposium from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Dec.

Contract Price: $912,268 Start Date: Sept. 2009 Estimated Completion: Dec. 2009 Contract Price: $456,784.66 Start Date: Oct.

The Abilene Planning and Zoning Commission tabled the city land use plan in a special session Monday at City Hall.

On Monday, at about 2 p.m., agents of the Special Operations Division executed a search warrant in the 2600 block of Russell.

Thirty firefighters and five fire trucks are on the scene of a blaze that has completely engulfed a warehouse building downtown on Plum Street between N. 4th and 5th Streets.

A 17-year-old Abilene man was found dead in an alley Saturday night from a gunshot wound, police said.

Stimulus funds were used to repair and upgrade this massive hangar door at Dyess Air Force Base.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison will be in Abilene Monday for the groundbreaking for the Armed Forces Reserve Center at Dyess Air Force Base.