McLennan County News

A tenth lawsuit was filed Wednesday in a state district court naming West Fertilizer Company and its owner in connection with the April 17 fire and explosion that left 15 dead, more than 200 injured and scores of homes destroyed.

Waco police have found the female suspect accused of stealing credit cards from Central Texas hospitals.

Ed Graf Jr. had his hearing today to decide if they want to retry him on charges of murder or capital murder based on other evidence.

Waco Police Officers Hans Fitting and Darrell Patterson were "No Billed" during their McLennan County Grand Jury meeting.

Texas is Bush Country and now a new generation of the political family looks to make his mark on the state.

A man wanted in connection with a high-speed chase Sunday during which two Mart police officers were injured turned himself in to McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara Wednesday at around noon Wednesday.

The McLennan County Sheriff's Office was leading a manhunt late Tuesday night for a man who assaulted a deputy who was trying to serve a warrant.

Police say a suspect involved in a high speed chase Sunday night is now in custody.

A judge in has ordered that a mental health evaluation be done for a former West, Texas, aramedic who's accused of possessing bomb-making material.

Two Mart police officers were taken to a Waco hospital Sunday evening for treatment of injuries they sustained in a car crash that happened while they were involved in a high speed chase with a suspect.

People waiting for answers about the cause of the April 17 explosion at West Fertilizer Company will be waiting longer as the investigation continues.

Prosecutors plan to retry a Central Texas man whose 25-year-old conviction for setting a fire that killed his two young stepsons was set aside due to issues raised later with the science used to find him guilty.

West police arrested a man at a local bar Thursday night after other patrons there reported he pulled a gun on them and later started shooting.

A McGregor man was arrested early Friday morning after he held police and sheriff's deputies at bay for a short time.

A Houston woman died and another woman and her children were injured in a Thursday afternoon crash on Interstate 45 near Fairfield.

While the Republican Party struggles to resolve fratricidal conflict over gay marriage and immigration reform, there is another elephant in the room: Texas, the last big-state bastion of the right.

With the joint investigation into the blast at West Fertilizer Company apparently winding down, officials have called a press conference for this afternoon to discuss their findings.

The focus of lawsuits stemming from the April 17 explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant may change, after news that Adair Grain Inc., doing business as West Fertilizer Co., holds only a $1 million liability insurance policy.

A Texas paramedic who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said, after agreeing to postpone his detention hearing.

McLennan County deputies convinced a man who had barricaded himself inside a Hallsburg home with a woman held hostage to surrender after about a two-hour standoff.