Cameron Park News

The Christmas season has had a festive focus for Waco residents for decades of its 160-year history: In the 1890s, for example, the founders of what is now known as the Methodist Children's Home used the Christmas season, a time of celebrating familial bonds, as the prime opportunity to raise operational funds for the orphanage from Methodists ...

The first of many prayers offered was spoken through a megaphone as chilly, damp fog lingered in a dark sky a ' unusual for a tropical night in America's poorest neighbourhood.

Vitriolic newspaper publisher William Cowper Brann was hated so much that his tombstone at Waco's Oakwood Cemetery has carried scars from a bullet for many years.

When it comes to big projects, the Waco City Council wants to shop locally. So members told City Manager Larry Groth on Tuesday, asking him to consider factors such as local experience instead of just lowest price in the city's bidding process.

Alfonso Landeros has celebrated the feast of la Virgen de Guadalupe since he was a young boy in Aguascalientes, a city in the heart of Mexico.

An animal caused a malfunction at an electricity substation Monday evening, cutting power to some 1,300 residents in the Cameron Park area.

Unfortunately, the history of the Waco Hippodrome Theatre is a history marked by financial challenge and the occasional financial crisis.

In 1998, Kirk Smith was assigned a six-week medical rotation that changed his life.

No. 08-0121 City of Waco, Petitioner, v. Debra Kirwan, Individually and as Representative of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth District of Texas Argued February 3, 2009 Justice Green delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice Hecht, Justice O'Neill, Justice Wainwright, Justice Medina, Justice Johnson, Justice Willett, and Justice Guzman ...

The Supreme Court of Texas ruled Friday that the city of Waco cannot be sued in the 2004 death of a McLennan Community College baseball player who fell to his death from a Cameron Park cliff.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City of Waco Friday in a lawsuit filed by Debra Kirwan whose son Brad McGehee fell to his death on April 24, 2004 from a cliff in Cameron Park while watching drag boat races on the Brazos River.

The city of Waco will seek public comment today on plans to spend the remaining $2 million in bond money budgeted for Cameron Park renovations.

Millions of dollars are falling into the pockets of local taxing entities that issued bonds before the recession hit.

Bicyclists from across the state will gather in Indian Spring Park today for the 25th annual Wild West Century Ride, a multidistance tour, the proceeds from which will be donated to a national bone marrow registry.

A quiet morning was shattered when gunshots rang out in Cameron Park. Neighbors along Nanette Avenue say they saw the crime unfold.

Cameron County Sheriff's Department deputies on Wednesday arrested a man accused of shooting an acquaintance with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Cameron County sheriff's deputies have at least one suspect in custody for a shooting in Cameron Park.

Students across Brownsville sat around televisions and computer screens on Tuesday as President Barack Obama encouraged them to stay in school and focus on the future.

Todd Yates/Caller-Times Mayor Joe Adame greets local and international students involved in the sister city exchange program at the council chambers.

Todd Yates/Caller-Times Mayor Joe Adame greets local and international students involved in the sister city exchange program at the council chambers.