Faced with growth in almost every area of the community, representatives from business, medical, education and government met this week at Temple College to establish a framework on which to plan for that growth. Full Story »
Red sumac is one of the more colorful species of foliage found in Central Texas. Sumac produces “the most brilliant reds I have ever seen,” said H. A. “Joe” Pase III, a Texas Forest Service forester and entomologist in Lufkin. Full Story »
United States Marine Lance Cpl. James White from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion takes position Friday in the high grass during a patrol near Khan Nashin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan. Full Story »
Did you have polio? Sixty-five years ago, just at the end of World War II, the United States experienced one of the worse polio epidemics with an average of more than 20,000 cases annually from 1945 to 1949. Full Story »
The unemployment rate in the Temple metro area is about 3 percentage points lower than the national rate, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Full Story »
The Bellmead City Council made minor changes to a controversial beautification ordinance Tuesday but postponed a decision on major revisions. Full Story »
Art Center Waco, 1300 College Drive, is offering a handmade soaps class from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Full Story »
Business experts and owners aren’t expecting President Barack Obama’s proposal to have much bearing on Waco’s small-business community because there is little in the plan to address the main problems they face: tight credit and slow sales. Full Story »
A former housekeeper at a Waco retirement center will spend the next two years in jail for stealing and forging checks from elderly residents. Full Story »
The McLennan County Commissioners Court is hoping that a new doctor at the county jail will provide more hands-on management and cost control of medical services to inmates. Full Story »
Attracting funding is the top priority for the new head of Texas AgriLife Research, one of seven state agencies within the sprawling Texas A&M System. "I can't imagine something more tragic for research scientists than coming to work and not havi ... Full Story »
A soldier wounded in the Iraqi desert or the rugged mountains of Afghanistan is much more likely to die there than if he suffered the same wounds in the United States. Matthew Miller and his team of researchers at Texas A&M University want to cha ... Full Story »
Texas A&M students isolate themselves in cubicles on the second floor of the West Campus Library late Tuesday to study for finals, which begin Friday. Exams run through Wednesday, when the fall semester will end and graduating seniors will make t ... Full Story »
Bryan officials said it's taking longer than expected to form a new entity to manage solid waste operations for their city and College Station.Both cities hired law firm Nichols, Jackson, Dillard, Hager & Smith in October to create a government a ... Full Story »
It's the season when shoppers have their sights set on the perfect gift, so area law enforcement have a reminder: Would-be burglars and thieves may be eyeing that same merchandise. And it's the time of year when many of the 47,000-plus Aggies and tho ... Full Story »
A Copperas Cove man has been arrested after an FBI investigation into child pornography led authorities to Central Texas Full Story »
A 34-year-old Texas women’s death row inmate convicted in the starvation death of a 9-year-old boy who weighed 35 pounds when he died in 2004. Full Story »
Cameron police arrested a teenager Wednesday in connection with a string of burglaries including break-ins at a restaurant, a transit system office and a public library. Full Story »
A Texas prison inmate convicted of killing a guard during an escape attempt two years ago is headed to death row. Full Story »
A 2-year-old student was in custody after opening fire in a classroom at a community college. Full Story »
State environmental regulators have approved an air-pollution permit for a proposed expansion of a Central Texas coal-fired power plant. Full Story »
A fiery explosion at an industrial plant in the Houston area shock homes as far as a half-mile from the plant. Full Story »
A 47-year-old Copperas Cove man has been arrested by a Texas Attorney General's office investigator after being caught up in a nationwide FBI child pornography investigation. Full Story »
News Channel 25 has uncovered new detail surrounding Tuesday's discovery of a woman's body in Lake Whitney. Full Story »
A Central Texas woman was arrested after allegedly breaking into a Copperas Cove home to fight with another woman. Full Story »
You may have heard the saying you have to spend money to make money. That’s the philosophy behind the expansion project about to begin at the Brazos County Expo. Full Story »
PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) - Gatorade is discontinuing its Tiger Woods drink but says it made the decision before the golfer's car accident and the media firestorm surrounding his personal life that followed. Full Story »
CONROE, Texas – An inmate who escaped custody in Baytown last week claims he had help from the inside, Houston activist Quannel X said. Full Story »
A re-union of sorts for a Caldwell man and a great deal of money! Wednesday morning the man and his lost money were re-united at the Bryan Police Department. Full Story »
DNA evidence has led to an arrest in the 1992 rape and murder of a Texas woman. Full Story »
Thursday was the first day Democratic and Republican party candidates could file an application for a place on the primary ballot. Locally, nine Democrats and two Republicans had filed for various offices, with only two contested, so far. Full Story »
It may take months for their efforts to begin to show, but members of the El Camino Real Master Naturalist Chapter think their efforts will be worth the wait when they host the first Milam County Nature Festival next summer. Full Story »
Three family members from Thorndale are facing multiple charges, following the execution of a search warrant by the Milam County Sheriff’s Office at about midnight Nov. 24. Full Story »
Faith and the belief that his spirit lives on is what keeps the mother and sisters of JJ Urban going these days. The 24-year-old was killed Feb. 5, 2007 - beaten and stabbed 36 times in his home by someone he considered a friend, according to his mom, Lisa Condry. Full Story »
The Tree of Angels has grown from 10 to 12 feet this year - the height needed to accommodate more than 150 ornaments placed in honor of victims and survivors of violent crime. All have ties to Milam County. Full Story »
WALL – The Ellison Lady Eagles suffered their second loss of the season and first since mid-November, 42-39 in overtime at Class 2A No. 5 Wall. Full Story »
HARKER HEIGHTS – As coach Shirretha Nelson put it Tuesday night, just two more to go. The Harker Heights girls basketball coach is referring to wins, as in her Lady Knights need just two more wins to match their total from all of last year. Full Story »
BELTON – The Killeen Lady Roos simply had no answer for Amber Peters. Belton's Peters scored 14 points in the second half Tuesday and led the Lady Tigers to a 54-52 win over Killeen at Belton High. Full Story »
One down, 44 to go. Killeen hit six of its first eight shots to rebound from its first home loss in four years with a 90-53 win over the Austin Crockett Cougars. Full Story »
"I thought it was real sloppy, I thought we could do a whole lot better," Jones said. "I'll take an 18-point win any day, but I thought we could have played a whole lot better and had a whole lot fewer turnovers." Full Story »
No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, which occured about 3 a.m. at the Denny's restaurant in the 4400 block of North Central Expressway. Full Story »
If it were to eventually become law, it would turn up the pressure on the BCS by preventing the group from calling its title game a "national championship game" unless it was the result of a playoff system. Full Story »
Detectives were questioning three men late Tuesday night in connection with the weekend rape and robbery of a 20-year-old woman who was kidnapped from an Old East Dallas street as she walked to a car with friends. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - The mob on top of kicker Hunter Lawrence after his field goal put the University of Texas in college football's national title game was just the start of a burgeoning dog pile on the Bowl Championship Series. Full Story »
Patricia Viramontes, DISD's executive director of information technology and the wife of Chief of Staff Arnold Viramontes, was terminated today and escorted out of her workplace by DISD police, according to district sources. Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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