Elgin News

Amy Hembree and her daughter are inseparable. Since Willow's birth in March, Hembree has devoted herself full time to her daughter and has an overriding goal: to create a loving, stable home for her like Hembree never had.

Martha Sue Miller, 74, of Elgin, Texas and formerly of Stamford, passed away on Saturday, November 28, 2009 in Elgin, Texas.

The Austin-Travis County EMS has recently started a new program where they go to an office or school and spend 10 minutes teaching basic CPR or first aid.

Central Texas teens become Eagle Scouts The following students have earned the Eagle Scout ranking, the highest level of recognition in the Boy Scouts: James N. Churchill Jr.

Austin Police Department internal affairs officer Chris Dunn was fired for an email he sent during the APD internal investigation into the Sanders shooting.

Before telling you about the sunny, cooler days ahead, I'd like to thank the I Know What's Funny and It's Not This Weather Blog Club, Bill Engvall Chapter, for allowing me to do today's forecast from their nicely appointed meeting hall in the president's mom's basement.

A former police officer in central Texas will spend time behind bars for possessing child pornography.

A Bastrop County jury sentenced former Elgin police officer Orval Roger Miller, 48, on three third-degree felony counts of child pornography possession.

A Travis County jury has sentenced an Elgin man to 20 years in prison for robbing at gunpoint a Ben White Boulevard convenience store in February.

Enrollment at Austin Community College, already at a record high, needs to increase even more to meet local work force needs and to help position the region for a bright economic future, according to a report by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

To farmers, this week's rain is like liquid gold falling from the sky. "We love it, we love it," said Roger Mogonye, a Bastrop County farmer.

My yoga teacher likes to say, as she eyeballs my unlimber limbs, straining to contort in comical ways, that "it's the journey, not the destination," and those wise words might also serve as the message of this moving documentary film about one family's experience with autism.

Each week Joshua Bousel of The Meatwave drops by with a recipe for you to grill over the weekend.

The family of Larry Goodwin has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against UPS in which one of their trucks collided head on killing Larry on July 29 in Bastrop County.

Since I've not personally known anyone with autism, it's not an issue I could relate to until seeing Michel O. Scott's The Horse Boy , which is currently playing at Arbor Great Hills.

According to Odessa police, a man driving a Ford F-150 hit some water, lost control of the truck and slammed into the house.

An Elgin family is now a big believer in alternative medicine and the healing power of horses.

Captain Joshua S. Meadows, 30, of Elgin, Texas, died on Sept. 5, 2009, while conducting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

About 70 military personnel, 30 high profile military vehicles, four military helicopters and four swift water rescue teams are on stand-by after Gov.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News September 10, 2009 Greenwood, TX - A Greenwood family is mourning after their marine son-in-law was killed in combat this weekend.