Mexia News

Radio personality Bruce Hathaway interviews hunter Brian Quaca aka Pig Man at the 2012 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on Saturday, Feb.

It's Mardi Gras time, so laissez les bon temps rouler. There already have been a variety of events, but The Daily News has a list of standout events you don't want to miss.

Robert Lee Carroll, 57, of Mexia, passed away Feb. 8, 2012. A memorial service will be held Monday, Feb.

Mexia Blackcat Leon Gray dribbles forward, attacking the basket from the outside in the district match versus Groesbeck on Tuesday.

Mexia Fire Department personnel Brad Mills, left, and Robert LaFoy sweep up the dirt-like material they poured over a gasoline spill Tuesday at the Valero on Hwy 171 in Mexia.

Limestone County sheriff's deputies and state game wardens retrieved the body of a drowning victim from Lake Mexia about 5 p.m. Wednesday after a six-hour search.

Mr. Donald Ray Bedford, an employee of Bi-Stone Building Supply in Mexia, passed away last Saturday, Feb.

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Community Briefing: Travis County OKs new water-use and development rules; 2 teens killed, father hurt in mobile home fire As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months.

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A woman who admitted to helping convicted murderer Joyce Sturdivant try to hire hit men to kill her husband has been fired from her job at a state home for people with developmental disabilities.

Wyman Douglas Seay, 72, of Midland and formerly of Mexia, passed away peacefully on the evening of Jan.

Texas AgriLife Extension Service is sponsoring a Dinner Tonight Cooking School from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb.

Since January of 2011 the Texas Department of Transportation has been working on expanding a one mile stretch of Bailey Avenue in Mexia.

Two men who pleaded guilty to beating a Mexia man to death were sentenced, and two suspects in three other murders were also before a judge during proceedings in District Court last week.

A man and a youth have been arrested as suspects in the theft of two pickups from a local auto dealership which was also burglarized.

Two Mexia residents, one of them a teenager, pleaded guilty to murder Friday in the October 2010 beating death of a Mexia man.

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Coach Kris Price, left, presents senior Diontr[233] Oliver with the prestigious Mexia Blackcat 2011 Shield of Honor Award at Thursday's football banquet.