Waco News

Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., will be the keynote speaker at Care Net of Central Texas' annual Celebrate Life! Banquet, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept.

Brandon Henderson leaves the U.S. Marine Corps in 24 days, after eight years and two tours of duty in Iraq.

If a friend blindfolded you and brought you to Bordwell Park in Riverside on Saturday afternoon, you would have thought you were in the middle of a church revival.

Young minds then begin to awaken to a thousand possibilities. What if we no longer had fire? What would the world be like? What if the oceans dried up? If you are a homemaker, you can be very creative.

The pads are free to the public during regular park hours and feature colorful pipes and pads that shoot water in every direction.

A Hill County man charged with capital murder, who has been in the McLennan County Jail for 3 1/2 years without a trial, again asked to postpone the proceedings.

Bill Flores and challenger George W. Hindman . Big t akeaway : Flores says to expect that "taxmageddon" will be avoided by brief extension of such expenditures as the Bush-era tax cuts in a lame-duck session of Congress, followed by comprehensive tax reform early next year.

Hundreds of people welcomed the unofficial start of summer last weekend with a soak in the spray at Hawaiian Falls in Riverbend Park.

A man accused of attempting to stab another man several times at a homeless camp remained in the McLennan County Jail late Friday afternoon.

A woman who had repeated contact with Waco police before reportedly crashing a speeding SUV into a truck, killing its driver, was legally insane at the time of the incident, according to a psychiatrist who evaluated her.

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is putting 200 people to work at its new restaurant next to Richland Mall, joining other eateries in taking a bite out of Waco's jobless rate.

Corey Roberts, a junior at Waco High School, and Tanner Haney , a sixth-grader at Lake Air Intermediate School, advanced from Texas History Day to the national level.

A post-trial hearing in 54th District Court on Friday resulted in a woman being compelled to testify against her husband when he goes to court on June 11.

A collision involving a four-door sedan and a small SUV late Friday morning on Interstate 35 in Waco caused a major traffic backup and sent a 3-year-old girl to a local hospital.

Lost amid some of the contentious down-ballot race outcomes on Election Day: news that Texas voters finally put Republican Mitt Romney over the top in delegates.

Waco public radio station KWBU-FM hopes to catch listeners' ears by appealing to their stomachs, adding the award-winning program "The Splendid Table" to its lineup beginning Saturday.

The city of Waco's annual Brazos Nights concert series will continue with a free performance by western swing group Asleep at the Wheel at 7 tonight at Indian Spring Park in downtown Waco.

A Waco man was sentenced to 40 years in prison and fined $10,000 on Thursday for selling cocaine from a house within 1,000 feet of a children's day care center.

Guards at Guantanamo Bay tried to coerce inmates into talking with songs from Sesame Street played on repeat , according to a new Al-Jazeera documentary.

Officials are investigating after fire broke out Thursday in the rubble of a mobile home that exploded in flames earlier this year, trapping and killing a mother and two of her children, Firefighters responded to the call just after 11 a.m. Thursday in the 6300 block of North 19th Street in Waco.