Blinn College volleyball (12-5, 1-0) went undefeated in the Clarendon Classic after defeating Clarendon College, 3-1 (25-7, 28-26, 16-25, 25-14), Saturday afternoon.

Trinity Valley Community College defeated No. 6 Blinn College football (4-1, 2-1) by the score of 42-21 on Saturday night.

The Columbus ISD, Columbus, TX has closed after a threat was made on social media.  According to the Columbus ISD superintendent, the threat was made via Snapchat, and reportedly named a student and mentioned an AK-47.

China is developing a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, “social credit” will bring great opportunities — for others, punishment. The Communist Party’s plan is to monitor its citizens 24/7 and rank them on their behavior, as the dystopian social ranking system will be fully operational by 2020.

Austin County and surrounding area teams all battled Friday night in Week 4 of Texas Football. Here are the scores we have.

Buc-ees’ distibutor, Junior’s Smokehouse Processing Plant located El Campo, Texas, is recalling approximately 690 pounds of ready-to-eat teriyaki beef jerky products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of hard metal.

The Austin County Sheriff’s Department is reporting that they have made a sizable find in the local drug war; approximately 800 to 1,000 marijuana plants in Cat Spring, Texas.

Blinn College volleyball (10-5, 1-0) kept its unblemished home record while entertaining its fans with a sweep over Wharton County Junior College to open the conference season. Blinn swept Wharton by the score of 26-24, 25-20 and 25-14.

Journalists and free press advocates are responding with alarm to newly released documents (obtained through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed last November) revealing the U.S. government’s secret rules for using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders to spy on reporters, calling the revelations “important” and “terrifying.” “There’s a lack of clarity on the circumstances when the government might consider a journalist an agent of a foreign power,”.

The White House announced that it has imposed tariffs on approximately $200 billion worth of imports from China, effective September 24. The tariffs will start at 10% until the end of the year, but in an unexpected twist, are set to rise to 25% on January 1, 2019. A substantial portion of the imports targeted this time are consumer goods, which means that the pain to the US household bottom line is about to get real.

No. 6 Blinn College football (4-0, 2-0) used an explosive offense to defeat Rezolution Prep Academy, 84-12, in a non-conference matchup on Saturday night at Cub Stadium.

Trump plans to announce new tariffs on up to $200 billion in Chinese goods as soon as Monday in a move that will prompt an immediate retaliation from China, and may lead to a sharply lower futures open on Sunday night.

Austin County and surrounding area teams all battled Friday night in Week 3 of Texas Football. Here are the scores we have.

A tractor trailer plowed into the Sealy Tractor sales lot Thursday morning mowing down the fence and hitting two tractors before finally coming to a stop. There were no injuries reported and workers from Sealy Tractor had the area cleaned and the fence back up by the end of the day.

A new study found that today’s teens overwhelmingly believe that social media interferes with homework, personal relationships and sleep and more than two-thirds of teens agree with the statement, “social media has a negative impact on many people my age.” And 40% agree with the statement, “I sometimes wish I could go back to a time when there was no such thing as social media.”

Two powers, China and Russia, are cooperating in military games, said to be the largest such exercise since 1981 under the Soviet Union.