Ennis News

James Kevin Myers, 21, who authorities identified as a resident of a group home in Ennis, was in the Limestone County Jail Monday afternoon after a high-speed chase earlier in the day through three Central Texas counties that ended in gunfire on the campus of the Mexia State School.

A North Texas man who led police officers on a chase through three counties in a stolen car was shot early Monday morning at the Mexia State School, authorities said.

For members of the Ennis Golden Circle Senior Citizens Center, each day at the center brings fellowship and a variety of activities.

With rights-of-way already available and the large amount of work planned for the Lampasas Street-U.S. 287 junction, TxDOT anticipates the highway expansion project work on the Ennis bypass will start in that area.

Ennis police discovered around $50,000 in allegedly stolen shingles at a store in northern Dallas on Wednesday.

Laddy Rejcek, manager of Blazek Building Supply in Ennis, is glad a troubling set of robberies at stores here and in Waxahachie might be close to being solved.

Ennis ISD is notifying the community that they offer comprehensive special education services to their students as part of a federal requirement, and are working to identify those students who have special education needs.

The American Legion held a Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday evening followed by dinner.

Submitted Photo Foundation poured for new Ellis County sub courthouse in Ennis a ' The new sub-courthouse will serve as the primary office location for Judge Bill Woody, Justice of the Peace, pct.

When the Berlin Wall was torn down 20 years ago, many people in Ennis and around the world watched it on TV, but one Ennis resident living in Berlin at the time saw it all first hand.

Still hoping for a family to call his own. K9 Northwest Just last month, word spread like wildfire that Camp Wolfgang in Ennis, TX, was closing its doors.

In 26 years, a Texoma native's career as an Air Force chaplain took him from homeland Texas to frozen Greenland to the tropics of the Philippines with a number of unexpected experiences along the way.

An Ellis County grand jury has charged a 26-year-old Ennis man with sex crimes against a child.

A milestone was reached Wednesday morning when contractors poured the concrete foundation for the Ellis County sub courthouse located in Ennis.

The Ennis Kiwanis Club installed its new set of officers for 2009-10 at their meeting Thursday.

In order to raise funds for Ennis Lion athletics, the Lionbackers Booster Club has begun selling address signs.

Tears and grateful celebration accompanied the arrival of seven Feed the Children trucks in Ennis bearing food for the needy Thursday.

Every summer, the Ennis Public Library holds the Children's Summer Reading Program with the help of the Rotary Club of Ennis.

The perenially unpopular toll road concept came up in discussion of the long-term project to beef up U.S. 287 at Monday's Ennis City Commission meeting.

Next June, a six-man team will enter the 260-mile Texas Water Safari using a boat built in Ennis.