Lorena News

Construction on two Interstate 35 frontage road bridges over the Brazos River is expected to start in July and finish by fall 2014, in time to carry traffic to the proposed new Baylor University stadium, according to the project manager for the state highway project.

Guitarist Brett Hendrix is on a roll. This spring, he won a Horizon Award from the Music Association of Central Texas, given for most promising talent, following his band's win last fall of a "Best Of .

A Central Texas teenager has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2011 Waco drive-by fatal shooting of another youth.

As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months.

A reported burglary early Wednesday morning led to separate searches for two suspects after one man fled the scene and another walked out of a police interview room where he was being held, officials said.

At least two people were in custody and lawmen were looking for at least one more after a burglary report in Lorena kept police and deputies busy for more than five hours early Wednesday morning.

A man who was doing a favor for a friend Friday morning ended up losing his pickup truck to a smoky fire.

A Lorena man remained Thursday at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center with serious injuries after a two-car accident Wednesday afternoon on Old Lorena Road, according to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Prosecutors said Sergio Santiesteban-Pileta drove more than a ton of marijuana with a street value of almost $5 million from South Texas in what the state trooper who stopped him called the most unusual shipment he has ever seen.