Burleson News

Johnson County offices will be closed Friday in observance of Independence Day as will city offices in Alvarado, Burleson, Cleburne, Godley, Grandview, Keene, Joshua and Rio Vista.

U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, plans to attend two events in Johnson County on Wednesday.

Toni Wiley says she's going to think twice before she wears her flip-flops at night again.

Monday morning at about 1:10, fire units from the Joshua Fire Department and Burleson Fire Department responded to a business structure fire located at the Pro-Cision transmission repair shop at 629 N. Broadway in Joshua.

Being in the newspaper business, I tend to run into people I know almost anywhere I go.

Former House Speaker Gib Lewis of Fort Worth was arrested in Austin late Thursday for driving while intoxicated, police say.

A HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SE TX AS THE HEAT INDEX HAS REACHED ABOVE 108 DEGREES YESTERDAY & IS EXPECTED TO REACH ABOVE 108 AGAIN TODAY.

A Burleson woman was killed after the vehicle she was driving struck an eighteen wheeler in a head-on collision Monday evening.

Today, a handful of North Texas dads get one of the coolest Father's Day gifts ever: a portrait in the Star-Telegram , drawn by each one's child.

By ELIZABETH CAMPBELL BURLESON - Talk of the city enacting an ordinance to regulate public gatherings is brewing discontent among some tea party protesters, who stood outside during this week's council meeting.Around 30 protesters, some with duct tape over their mouths and carrying pitchforks, gathered in the City Hall parking lot Monday.

Some people need tornado drills more than others. Ita s not too late to sign up as a volunteer for Burlesona s full-scale tornado disaster drill slated for Wednesday, June 24.

Jun 16, 2009 3:15 pm US/Central Stewart McKenzie Burleson The City of Burleson needs help as it takes part in a full-scale tornado disaster drill.

Cleburne High School Counselor Ben Morris has been appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to serve on the Texas Education Agency's State Board for Educator Certification.

A 1-month-old girl hospitalized two weeks ago with injuries that police believe were the result of being shaken by her father died Thursday at a Burleson hospice facility.

Johnson County commissioners accepted guaranteed maximum prices for two construction projects on Monday.

Psychology classes from Hill College at Burleson and the Johnson County campus in Cleburne participated different service projects throughout Johnson and Tarrant counties.

When Jay Hollis looked at the Texas Regional Radio Chart recently, he mopped his brow and was pretty pleased.

Downtown Cleburne Association members and area artists are serious about the creation of Art Alley adjacent to the recently opened downtown Plaza Theater, 111 S. Main St.

Senate negotiators are offering to reduce two proposed fees on motorists and delay countywide elections by two years in a proposed compromise to keep a local transportation funding plan alive as part of massive legislation to overhaul the Texas Department of Transportation.

Members of the House and Senate reached a consensus Saturday on legislation that would allow drilling companies to place natural gas transmission pipelines along state highway rights of way instead of through neighborhoods.