Cleburne News

A federal judge sentenced two defendants to prison on Friday for their participation in phone pranks and other crimes that, among numerous victims, involved an Alvarado family.

A new scholarship for Cleburne High School graduates interested in the field of nursing has been established by Cleburne ISD Maintenance Department employee Don Williams in memory of his late wife.

By BILL MILLER CLEBURNE -- Six years of planning and organization and three years of construction culminate this weekend with the opening of Cleburne Golf Links.The municipal course is more than 7,000 yards long on the shores of Lake Pat Cleburne, said Charlie Hodges, city spokesman.The ribbon cutting and open house begin at 8 a.m. Friday.

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part interview with Dr. Monte Geren, the monitor appointed to Cleburne ISD by the Texas Education Agency.

Cleburne police arrested a Waxahachie man on Saturday after determining the vehicle he was driving had been reported stolen from Ellis County, according to reports.

Railroad Commission of Texas Commissioner Michael Williams will serve as guest speaker at this year's Johnson County Republican Party's July Jubilee.

This year's Fourth of July festivities kick off with a parade in downtown Cleburne and wrap up with a fireworks blowout at Lake Pat Cleburne, all courtesy of the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce.

Another small earthquake hit Cleburne late Friday night, and a city spokesman said it could be helpful to geologists trying to determine whether natural gas drilling is causing the seismic activity.

County Attorney Cindy Weir-Nutter says by launching a new Family Violence Unit, she hopes to not only stop the violence but also save lives.

Jun 27, 2009 5:32 pm US/Central Melissa Newton CLEBURNE Some residents in Cleburne were shaken from sleep as a sixth earthquake hit the town.

A Cleburne man was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with assault with bodily injury in connection to a family violence call, according to Johnson County Sheriff's Office reports.

Tina Waldrop of Cleburne is among seven North Texas teachers who will travel to Mexico next month to take part in the Rotary Club Inter-Country Teacher Exchange.

The essays of three Cleburne ISD Adult Education students are featured in the June issue of The Quarterly, a publication of the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning.

C.C. Cooke Elementary School Principal Gary Buckingham has been named to a new position as the district's executive director for maintenance and operations.

A Burleson woman was killed after the vehicle she was driving struck an eighteen wheeler in a head-on collision Monday evening.

The Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club held its 89th annual BPW Texas State Conference recently at Fort Worth/Dallas airport Marriott South.

Cleburne police arrested a woman on a charge of intoxication assault Thursday after she struck a man driving a motorcycle, according to reports.

Tolbert Mayfield was a self-made man, also his own man. He learned early in life that the best way to get ahead is to blaze your own trail and never deviate as you traipse through life.

Cleburne police arrested a man for criminal trespass on Thursday and later learned that he arrived at the location in a stolen vehicle.

Everything is bigger in Texas, even hoaxes. That's what someone - no one is quite sure who - evidently decided in posting a picture on Internet of a man identified as Beau Elrod with a 97-pound western diamondback rattlesnake allegedly captured in a creek bed between the 14th and 15th holes at Cleburne Municipal Golf Course.