Mexia News

The Mexia Little Dribblers Youth Organization will be hosting the Boys 2010 Little Dribblers Tournament in Mexia March 25-27. There will be 15 teams of ages 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14 competing for three days.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the estate of late model, reality TV star and one-time Mexia resident Anna Nicole Smith will receive none of the more than $300 million that Smith claimed her late billionaire husband promised her.

It's hard to say what Anna Nicole Smith will be remembered for. Modeling for Playboy and Guess Jeans? Her legal battles over her late husbands billions? As a reality tv star? Trimspa Spokeswoman?or most recently the birth of her daughter Dannilyn, the paternity war that rages on, the tragic death of her beloved son Daniel at the age of 20.

Courtesy photo The Gospel Five will have their 16th annual banquet at 6 p.m. March 20 at the Martin Luther King Jr.

Barbara Faye Sykes, 76, of Mexia, passed away on March 16, at the Manor Healthcare residence in Mexia.

Pat Henry Neill, 72, died on March 16, at Crescent Place Memory Care Center in Cedar Hill.

Bert Harrison, citing "personal and health reasons," abruptly resigned from the Mexia School Board just after trustees had come back from their second executive session Monday night.

GROESBECK a 'Firefighters were called just before 1 a.m. Monday to a house fire in Groesbeck that gutted the building.

Robert Vannoy Black, 87, passed away, Wednesday, March 10, in the Houston VA Hospital.

Mexia Baseball Assoc. 2010 Sign-Ups The Mexia Baseball Association will be conducting signups for the upcoming 2010 Baseball Season.

Ms. Essie Thomas, 97, passed away March 9, 2010. Ms. Thomas was born on October 6, 1912, in New Hope, Texas to Ida Lee and Alver Roy Wells.

The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb.

PSALM 119:4 - Thou hast commanded us to keep Thy precepts dilligently. - - FIRST AMENDMENT QUOTE: "Words mean.

The County Show Barn was a flurry of activity Saturday as more than 75 head of cattle and their exhibitors gathered for the first ever Limestone County Young Farmers Junior Heifer Show.

The Mexia soccer team hosted Cameron Yoe on Friday night. The waves of Lee Wiginton's departure for Midlothian are still being felt in Mexia.

Orange A. Cunningham was 18 when the United States called him to serve in World War II.

MEXIA, Texas, March 3, 2010 - " "They finally did it," said David Schuessler, director of fundraising and volunteer recruitment in Texas for Ducks Unlimited.

Jack Brian Scarbrough passed away at the age of 80 at Midland Memorial Hospital on Feb.

Peaches have been grown in Texas for more than 100 years. They have become established as commercial crops at Pittsburg, Fredericksburg, Tyler, Mexia, Weatherford, and Montague, where deep, well-drained soil, proper varieties and chilling and good orchard management make crops successful.

National chain CVS Pharmacy has finalized the purchase of property at the intersection of Ross Avenue and U.S. Hwy.