Wichita Falls News

The 60th Annual Parade of Homes kicked off this weekend, and plenty of local home builders have their work on display in some beautiful houses.

A second Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter lands to take passengers of a white 2004 Ford van to the hospital Saturday after a rollover wreck on U.S. 287 between Iowa Park and Electra.

Not physically - it will still be played on the same Wichita Falls area golf courses that have been home for years.

Tiffany Orue and Carlos Rios, both of Wichita Falls, graduated from Bowdoin. Orue is a biology major and Rios majored in Latin American studies and Spanish and minored in teaching.

Contributed photo by Stephen San Miguel Members of the Red River Valley Square and Round Dance Association gather at their hall.

NEVER TOO OLD - 101-year-old Nina Robinson of Decatur was one of the oldest in Wise County to cast a vote in the primary election Tuesday.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these people can call Crime Stoppers at 940-322-9888 or toll-free from outside the Wichita Falls area at 800-322-9888. Brian Burkhalter, 38, brown hair, brown eyes, 5 feet 9 inches, 180 pounds.

Possum Kingdom, about 70 miles south of Wichita Falls, features the stunning beauty of the canyons along the 20,000-acre lake.

A 9-year-old boy taking the trash to the Dumpster in the alley in the 1800 block of Huff about 1:30 p.m. Thursday was the victim of an apparent kidnapping attempt.

The city of Wichita Falls employees who smoke are having to pay more for health insurance than employees who don't smoke.

Survivors include husband, Stephen; children, Tessa LeRae Saenz of Seymour, Stephanie Mechelle Latham of Concord, N.C., Ricky Adis Latham and Christy Ann Gonzales, both of Sulphur Springs; mother, Dorothy Wright of Seymour; three brothers, Floyd Wright and Jay Wright, both of Wichita Falls and Dewayne Wright of Perrin; nine grandchildren and three ... (more)

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Life Tabernacle, 4350 Seymour Hwy., with the Rev.

Billie Rosemary Sampson age 85, of Galveston died peacefully Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at Elmcroft Senior Living in Texas City.

Deputy Chief of Police Manuel Borrego will change titles when the sun rises tomorrow morning over the Wichita Falls Police Department .A He will move into the big corner office and his title will become Interim Chief of Police .

Texoma residents can now put the pedal to the metal on I-44. The speed limit has been increased to 75 miles per hour from the Red River to the Airport Drive in Wichita Falls.

Dennis Bachman says his final day as police chief included some final packing, a retirement party and a stroll down memory lane before turning in his badge and allowing the interim chief to take over.

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE An Air Force staff sergeant assigned to Holloman Air Force Base was killed May 27 at approximately 1:30 p.m. in a motorcycle accident six miles north of Timberon.

In mid-March I took a birding trip around Texas, inland in the Rolling Plains ecoregion with two of my friends.I started from Oklahoma and drove south through a misty, rainy morning.

In the race for republican nomination for the 30th State Senate seat, incumbent Craig Estes of Wichita Falls led his opponent, Jim Herblin by a comfortable margin through the vote count.

Torin Halsey/Times Record News Enrique Aguilar, left, Emanuel Prieto and Jose Munoz of the Wichita Falls Parks Department clean up half of a tree which blew down in Grant Street Park Monday.