Milam County News

An off-duty Temple police officera TMs attempt to detain two suspected shoplifters led to a chase and eventually two arrests, but the man who drove the getaway car remained at large Tuesday.

Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa is seeking $500 million in damages from a utility company in a lawsuit that claims the company manipulated electricity prices that forced Alcoa to shut down its Rockdale plant.

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE LITTLE RIVER NEAR ROCKDALE. * UNTIL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.

Classes were canceled Monday for Gause schools due to a power outage caused by early morning storms, but students will return Tuesday, officials said.

The National Weather Service on Tuesday issued a flood watch affecting Leon, Robertson and Milam counties.

Investigators from several rural counties are working together to identify and arrest a man who may have raped several elderly women across the state, including some in the Brazos Valley.

Recent rains have brought the water levels at Barton Springs Pool high enough for crews to repair leaks, but a final design plan has not been approved.

Officials in Milam County held a town hall meeting Saturday to give residents more information about the recent attacks on elderly women that have occurred in surrounding areas.

A town hall meeting is scheduled this weekend to discuss a series of sexual assaults targeting elderly women living in rural areas of Central Texas.

A man died early Friday morning in a fiery pickup truck crash in Cameron. Cameron police said the accident happened at about 12:30 a.m. Friday at the intersection of 4th Street.

Jimmie John Jones, 31, of Taylor, died early Wednesday morning after he lost control of his pick up truck on a lonely road south of Rockdale.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers are at the scene of a fatal highway accident south of Rockdale in Milam County.

A Central Texas sheriff who was searching for leads in the investigation of a series of rapes in three area counties instead caught a man and a woman lighting up a meth pipe.

Walker County businessman Ben Bius is scheduled to announce his candidacy for state Senate District 5 at 5 p.m. Friday at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum on Sam Houston Avenue.

Stephen Thomas officially announced his candidacy Oct. 5 for State Representative of House District 20.

A suspicious fire shuts down a central Texas bridge. The Littler River Bridge on FM 1915 in Milam County has now been burning for two days.

A Rockdale man is dead after an early morning accident Saturday. DPS Troopers say Brian Stauffer, 30 years old, of Rockdale was driving southbound on FM 208 at about 1:30 a.m. Troopers say it appears Stauffer over corrected near a curve and rolled his F-250 truck.

His his house was so dirty, authorities say it was dangerous. A Milam County grand jury has agreed.

Edith Eilenberger, 84, of Lubbock, passed away on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, at her residence.

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