Axtell News

With work progressing on the project to expand Highway 31 to four lanes in southeast Hill County, traffic changes were announced earlier this week.

As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months.

There's an old, tarnished button, the size of a half-dollar and sort of copper-colored, that Marlene Tucker, of Axtell, has held on to for about 40 years.

Although the rains that fell this week on Waco and the surrounding area did thousands of dollars in damage, none of us is ready to complain all too strenuously.

McLennan County sheriff's deputies arrested two men Friday, just hours after a break-in at a rural home on County Line Road from which jewelry, cash and guns were taken.