Hewitt News

Gov. Rick Perry said the state will fund a new initiative into 2011 to reduce a statewide backlog of more than 38,000 pending veterans benefits claims.

Lucio Ruiz, 23, of Hewitt, who was named in warrants charging intoxicated manslaughter in a late-night crash in October that claimed the lives of two brothers, turned himself in to Waco police Tuesday.

Governor Rick Perry announced a new initiative to help ease the backlog in veterans' applications for benefits.

State transportation officials approved spending more than half of $2 billion worth of voter-approved bond money to widen six stretches of Interstate 35 in Central Texas.

A proposal to limit front-yard fence heights hit a wall at Tuesday's Waco City Council meeting.

The Waco Veterans Day Parade will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the corner of Eighth Street and Austin Avenue.

Nov. 13: Police say a woman duped her community into believing she had breast cancer to get money for breast implants.

An unusually rainy fall, relocation of municipal water and sewer lines and a few minor mistakes have put the widening of Interstate 35 between Hewitt and Robinson six to eight months behind schedule, according to the Texas Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the work.

Stay on the alert, senior citizens. There's a new scam in town. Police and Better Business Bureau officials have given it a variety of labels, but by any name, it is a scam that targets senior citizens by preying on their heartstrings.

Today 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pure Dominance Car Club at Central Texas Marketplace by Panera Bread in Waco.

An Indiana soldier was among 31 people wounded when an Army officer opened fire at the Fort Hood military post in Texas Thursday, Indianapolis station WRTV reported .

Voters to go the polls Tuesday in Central Texas to decide 11 proposed Texas constitutional amendments and a handful of local bond issue and local option proposals.

Hewitt voters Tuesday shot down a $9.8 million bond sale that included the purchase of 63 acres earmarked for a new public safety facility and the creation of a town square with shops, restaurants and housing.

Stakes are high today for the city of Hewitt and four McLennan County school districts, as voters will decide whether raising taxes is worth the respective payoffs.

Lawrence Torres, 25, of Waco and his brother Jerry Torres, 31, of Bellmead died in a late night crash Sunday at the intersection of North 27th Street and West Waco Drive.

A convicted drug dealer found responsible for the death of an SMU co-ed will spend the rest of his life in prison.

WACO a 'Waco-area Taekwondo instructor Mitchell Cochran, 42, has been arrested on a warrant charging two counts of sexual assault of a child in connection with two incidents involving a middle school girl in 2005.

Construction workers found Meaghan Bosch's body on May 14, 2007 inside of a portable toilet in Hewitt.

The paroled murderer and drug dealer who was found responsible this past summer for the 2007 overdose death of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch will be sentenced by a federal judge this morning.

Two Waco men were killed in a car accident Sunday night just after 10:30 p.m. Lawrence Torres, 25, and his brother Jerry Torres, 31, were heading north in the 300 block of N. 27th in a 2003 Chevrolet half-ton pickup.