Waxahachie News

Submitted photo / A photograph depicts numerous small dead fish along the shore line of a nearby pond taken in the weeks following the Oct.

This is coming in over the radio: Rick Santorum is drawing record crowds in McKinney, TX.

Thursday's UIL realignment placed the Mansfield school district, which opens its fifth school, Lake Ridge, in the fall, in two of the more competitive athletic districts in the Metroplex.

On Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, a four-alarm fire in Waxahachie, TX destroyed the Magnablend Industries plant, which manufactured and packaged custom chemicals for a variety of uses, including agriculture feed supplements and oil field, water treatment, construction and industrial cleaning products.

Giant plumes of black smoke rise from the Magnablend chemical processing plant in Waxahachie as a fire burns on Oct.

Panhandle Radiology Imaging Center in Guymon is a giant step closer in completing installation for the facility's new MRI machine.

Magnablend closed a deal Tuesday to purchase the site west of Waxahachie that was intended to be the location of the Superconducting Super Collider, before that project was scrapped.

With Valentine's Day coming up, couples are making special plans and celebrating.

Editor's Note: Information gathered from Special Contributor Betty Ewalt Taylor.

On Friday afternoon, Jennifer Russell of Waxahachie, Texas started having contractions.

The recent rainwater is creating more than just flooding concerns in North Texas.

Texas man Zachary Russell filmed his wife, Jennifer, giving birth to their child while he was driving the car to the hospital.

Waxahachie, Texas resident, Craig Anderson spent the 2011 season again chasing points in two, of what many consider, NHRA's toughest sportsman classes, Super Gas and Super Comp.

Marty Dwayne Carlock, 46, dedicated son, devoted father, brother and uncle, lost his battle with cancer on Friday, January 20, 2012, in his home in Waxahachie, Texas.

WAXAHACHIE Life's journey is full of surprises. Few are bigger than little Willow's birth Friday afternoon - in a moving car on a rural highway.

Since the fire that leveled the Magnablend plant in Waxahachie last October, the public perception of the company's business activities in Ellis County has nosedived.

Jose A. Landeros, 30, and Juan F. Fuentes, 35, remained in Ellis County Jail in Waxahachie on charges of manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance more than 4 ounces and less than 200 ounces after a Crime Stoppers tip triggered an investigation by the Navarro County Sheriff's Office.

In a recent conversation about cultural Christianity with a pastor friend of mine, I learned something interesting about Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer, Jerry Lee Lewis.

On January 15, 2012, Francis Edmond Mitchell, was called home. He is now in a better place leaving many to mourn his passing.

Three months after a Waxahachie chemical plant burned, sending flames and smoke into the air and onto news reports nationwide, Magnablend Corp.'s relocation plan has stirred strong neighborhood opposition.