Bellmead News

Texas State Technical College Culinary Arts Instructor Chef Kimberly Fehler will demonstrate how to create cookie bouquets and cake pops for Valentine's Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Collin Street Bakery, 701 N. Interstate 35 in Bellmead.

A homeless Waco-area man was jailed Monday after Bellmead police arrested him on warrants charging indecency with a child by contact.

Saul Medina, 28, who's charged with capital murder in the slaying of a Bellmead convenience store owner, will not face a possible death penalty when he goes on trial this spring.

Waco police arrested a 54-year-old Bellmead man accused in a hit-and-run incident that seriously injured an off-duty McLennan County sheriff's deputy walking in Cameron Park.

On Tuesday investigators found the truck matching the description of the one involved in the hit and run at a home in Bellmead.

A three-time convicted felon who authorities say robbed three stores in 11 days was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in the robbery of a Dollar General store.

A tip from a citizen led Waco police Tuesday night to a pick up truck that could be the one involved in a hit-and-run accident that left a sheriff's deputy hospitalized.

Gerardo Marti, the L. Richardson King associate professor of sociology at Davidson College, will present a free, public lecture, "Have You Seen Our Gospel Choir? Worship, Music and the Integration of Races in Multiracial Churches," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Bennett Auditorium at Baylor University.

The proposed 150-unit Barron's Branch project is among 10 projects in this region competing for low-income housing tax credits, and state officials said there may be enough money for only one winner.

When she moved in 1989 to the Bellmead neighborhood known as Lincoln Park, she could see that dilapidated houses were coming down, street signs were going up and some gravel streets were being paved.

O'Neal is described as white, 5'9" with brown hair and eyes. He also has a beard and mustache.

Several Axtell residents say the widening of State Highway 31 through their area has altered the terrain, leaving some properties prone to flooding.

The Tribune-Herald 's Jan. 11 editorial on Super PACs ["What gives?"] demanded that political action committees be held accountable and report in a timely manner their donation sources.

Hayden Moody, chaplain of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Chapter 129, said the 4-by-6-foot flag, valued around $75, was removed Sunday night from the site, which is between the Days Inn and the Country Inn Suites on the west side of the interstate in Bellmead.

Bellmead residents soon will get new property tax bills in the mail, as the city works to implement a lower tax rate approved by voters.

Bellmead residents rejected a property tax increase Saturday, voting 218 to 181 against keeping a higher tax rate adopted by the city council.

Chase Colton Goeke, 22, of Lott, was arrested Thursday on warrants alleging aggravated assault and evading arrest with a vehicle in connection with a Christmas Eve car chase in Bellmead.