Hewitt News

How nice of McLennan County commissioners to awaken, Rip Van Winkle-like, and take an interest in complex affairs that have occupied others for years.

Bad weather caused a construction project on I-35 near Hewitt to be postponed until Wednesday evening.

What if a wastewater treatment plant was set to go up in your backyard? Some McLennan County residents a proposed plant got some support today from county commissioners.

Projects to widen parts of Hewitt Drive and Bagby Avenue to four lanes have been put on indefinite hold because of a transportation funding drought and timing issues with federal stimulus funds.

Sixty miles per hour winds downed trees and power lines Monday afternoon in the Central Texas town of Crawford.

Politicians may be busy talking about health care, but average folks are encouraged to actually help do something about the health of their community Saturday, the National Health Care Day of Service.

Officials have not yet determined the cause of a fire at a pallet company in Waco, but are pretty sure it was an accident.

Wood pallets at a local company caught fire just north of Hewitt on Tuesday evening, keeping fire crews from Hewitt, Waco and Woodway busy for at least two hours.

WACO a 'Firefighters from Hewitt, Waco and Woodway responded Tuesday evening to a fire at a Hewitt pallet company that produced a column of smoke that was visible for miles.

Three cities' firefighters have apparently doused a blaze at the Red Express Pallet Company, 7314 Bagby Ave.

The Hewitt Public Library will present comic magician and entertainer Todd McKinney at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Hewitt Community Center, 208 Chama Drive in Hewitt.

CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" revisits the death of Hewitt resident Kari Baker tonight in a mostly repeat broadcast, though reporter Erin Moriarty will update the story since it first aired, likely with the latest from earlier this year as her husband, former pastor Matt Baker, accused of her murder, prepares for trial this fall.

Despite a deep recession and a nationwide housing slump, McLennan County's tax base grew last year by 6.9 percent, according to new preliminary tax appraisal estimates.

The American Cancer Society is sponsoring the 2009 Cattle Baron's Ball at 6 p.m. Saturday at Camp Hope, 1007 Camp Road in McGregor.

WACO a 'Central Texas attorney Walter Reaves says his client Ed Graf didn't murder his two stepsons back in 1986 and says the evidence used to convict Graf two decades ago actually should exonerate him.

A man accused of being the supplier in the overdose death of a Southern Methodist University student has been convicted on drug and weapons charges.

Prosecutors rested their case today against James McDaniel, the 48-year-old ex-con accused of supplying the drugs that caused Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch's 2007 fatal overdose.

A Waco federal judge has ruled in favor of the city of Hewitt, City Manager Adam Miles and Police Chief James Barton in a lawsuit filed in December by an ex-police sergeant who claimed his termination was a violation of his freedom of speech.

Some McLennan County residents were shocked today when they were notified their home value had jumped significantly over the last year.

Ed Graf was sentenced to life for burning his two young stepsons alive. Two decades later, science may exonerate him.