Elm Mott News

One of the seven crew members aboard the ill-fated Coast Guard plane that crashed after a mid-air collision Thursday night has been identified by family friends as Danny Ray Kreder II, an outgoing 22-year-old from a tiny unincorporated central Texas town.

A late night fire destroyed the home of one Central Texas man. Firefighters responded around 10:00 p.m. Thursday to the structure fire on Locker Lane, off of FM 933 in Chalk Bluff.

A child playing on his bicycle near his rural home in Elm Mott was hit by an SUV Sunday evening at the end of his family's driveway.

Tennyson Middle School student Austin Lyon never thought about where his food came from before.

A Waco appeals court has upheld the capital murder conviction and life sentence of a captain in the Aryan Circle in the April 2008 kidnapping and slaying of a Kemp woman who also was affiliated with the white supremacist gang.

By CLARE MIERS ELM MOTT - Only five miles west of Interstate 35, about halfway down the Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Austin corridor, is a community living in the past.

Firefighters are on the scene of a large house fire at 8486 Old Marlin Road in Riesel.

A Waco judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a 65-year-old Central Texas minister accused of possessing child pornography.

A Waco judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a 65-year-old Central Texas minister accused of possessing child pornography.

After 10 hours of deliberations, a jury could not reach a verdict in the trial of 65 year old Henry Edgington of Elm Mott, so the judged has ruled the case a mistrial.

A Waco judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a 65-year-old Central Texas minister accused of possessing child pornography.

Jury selection is set to begin this morning in the trial of a former pastor charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography.

James Vekasy hit his first hole-in-one, acing the 170-yard par-3 12th hole at Stonetree Golf Club on Friday.

The owner of 78 dogs that were seized in May because of neglect and "deplorable" conditions was back in court Friday and won the right to appeal a lower court's ruling that he pay thousands to help shelters care for the animals.

Austin Police arrested two men accused of running over a Walgreens employee after a robbery.

The family of Adam Martinez Jr., who was killed last year in a drunken-driving accident on Interstate 35, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the other vehicle involved in the wreck.

A hearing was held earlier today where James Van Winkle and his wife, Barbara Mitchell, who have been accused of operating an alleged puppy mill in Elm Mott, were ordered to pay $6,240 for care of the animals and agreed to surrender all 78 of the seized dogs to the Waco Humane Society.

An Elm Mott man says his young family is terrified, after they woke up Tuesday morning to find a mummified, charred dog at the end of their driveway.

Thirty-two of the 78 dogs taken May 1 from an alleged puppy mill in Elm Mott were shipped Monday to the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where they will receive behavioral training and medical care.

An 89-year-old woman has died after she lost control of her car on a rural road near Elm Mott.