McLennan County News

Sometimes, a voluntary best-practices approach to industry self-regulation works best to raise standards and minimize government intrusion.

McLennan County Commissioners voted Tuesday to authorize the county Tax Appraisal District to reappraise homes, buildings and property affected by the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West.

The 2013 Hill County Crops Tour hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be held Thursday, June 20. The program will include several presentations aimed at helping local producers take a little more to the grain bin and keep a little more money in their pocketbooks, according to extension Agent Ryan Collett.

A Bellmead man was arrested May 26 after Waco police say he used his daughters to create a diversion while he stole a dog from the animal shelter.

Press Release: In light of recent revelations about the IRS, the time is now for a thorough examination of taxation.

Sleep apnea claims for Veteran's Affairs have nearly doubled in the past three years.

The McLennan County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in identifying two people who broke in and vandalized Axtell High School.

Hundreds of property owners whose homes and businesses were damaged by the earth-rattling fertilizer plant explosion that devastated the town of West in April may catch a break on their property taxes under recently approved legislation.

A McGregor man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after he earlier pleaded guilty to fraudulently using someone else's credit card.

A McLennan County auditor says that for the county to reach it's target revenue, taxes may have to be increased.

A Waco man was being held Tuesday in the McLennan County Jail after police say he caused life-threatening injury to a 5-month-old child.

A man and a woman who police say lured a run-away Waco girl into a prostitution scheme have been arrested in Mobile, Alabama on the charge.

On The Record: Ben Perry On May 22nd, Bill Whitaker, Opinion Editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, and Sandra Sanchez, Assistant Opinion Editor met with McLennan County Commissioner Ben Perry for an editorial board interview.

Larry Goodwin, 62, died Saturday, June 1, after his tractor struck a hidden hive encompassed 22 honeycombs harboring an estimated 40,000 Africanized honeybees.

Waco prosecutors and a local district judge were in Georgetown Monday as individual interviews were underway to seat a jury in a Waco capital murder trial.

A hive of Africanized bees has killed a Central Texas man and injured a woman who tried to help him.

Hundreds of property owners whose homes and businesses were damaged by the earth-rattling fertilizer plant explosion that devastated the town of West in April may catch a break on their property taxes under recently approved legislation.

An area man was listed in critical condition Friday evening after he was found shot in the head and face.

A two-car accident involving a Bruceville Eddy police officer has led a Central Texas man to the McLennan County Jail.

An 82-year-old McLennan County man was named in indictments for the second time in a month charged with inappropriate sexual contact with young children.