Bellmead News

Waco and McLennan County residents apparently are not in a spending mood. Waco will receive a sales tax rebate of $2.62 million for the month of November, down 5.65 percent from the $2.78 million it received for the same month last year.

Ready to compete with the world: Q&A with Dr. Truell Hyde on the formation of the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative BILL CLIFTON Guest columnBy Name Here Tribune-Herald staff writer Sunday, October 25, 2009 Local officials involved in the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative say Dr.

School and community leaders hurried into the Baylor University Law School building Friday to hear about plans to spend nearly $30 million converting the former General Tire plant into a technology research center that could slow what one official called the state's brain drain.

A pair of brothers from the Waco area died in a car crash Sunday night. The Waco Police Department said Lawrence Torres failed to yield at the intersection of North 27th Street and West Waco Drive when he was struck by an eastbound pickup truck.

A $30 million research consortium is a significant step toward Baylor University's goal of becoming a top-tier national research university, several Baylor officials said in unveiling the project Friday.

The capital murder trial of a Waco man charged in the death of a Bellmead woman whose mobile home was destroyed by fire in February 2008 was postponed after his lawyer asked for an arson expert to review the case.

A group of local colleges and city governments, led by Baylor University and Texas State Technical College, will pour nearly $30 million into the old General Tire plant to develop a 300,000-square-foot technology research center beginning early next year.

Dozen of families got to spend time together Saturday in Bellmead at one of the largest fishing events in McLennan County.

After voting to hire a new city manager Tuesday night, members of the Bellmead City Council said they are confident his 23 years of municipal service will get the city moving in a new, positive direction.

An elderly man escaped uninjured Wednesday morning after fire broke out in the kitchen of his home at 2025 Lafayette Circle in Bellmead.

BELLMEAD a 'A Bellmead house fire sent one man to a local hospital for observation after he escaped the flames Tuesday.

If you plan on ordering a pizza and reside in East Waco, don't expect the delivery to arrive in 30 minutes or less.

So much hurtful rhetoric and rumor-mongering have been aired over the proposed Bull Hide Creek water treatment plant that we didn't foresee both sides in the fight sitting down and quietly working out problems.

Joel Guerrero, 29, of Bellmead, has been charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor after a girl accused him of abuse, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The Luby's cafeteria on New Road has closed, putting nearly 40 employees out of work.

The Bellmead City Council delayed voting Friday on a tentative $550,000 settlement with the Church of the Open Door over a city zoning ordinance that the church claimed unfairly prohibited its ministry for paroled prisoners.

The lawsuit between a local church and one Central Texas town over the construction of a half-way house has been settled out of court.

It looks like no halfway house for ex-convicts in a Bellmead residential neighborhood.

Bobbie Christman worries about the basics. Things like having enough to eat and keeping her electricity running - constant fears that most of us just don't have.

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