Hewitt News

Stay on the alert, senior citizens. There's a new scam in town. Police and Better Business Bureau officials have given it a variety of labels, but by any name, it is a scam that targets senior citizens by preying on their heartstrings.

Today 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pure Dominance Car Club at Central Texas Marketplace by Panera Bread in Waco.

An Indiana soldier was among 31 people wounded when an Army officer opened fire at the Fort Hood military post in Texas Thursday, Indianapolis station WRTV reported .

Voters to go the polls Tuesday in Central Texas to decide 11 proposed Texas constitutional amendments and a handful of local bond issue and local option proposals.

Hewitt voters Tuesday shot down a $9.8 million bond sale that included the purchase of 63 acres earmarked for a new public safety facility and the creation of a town square with shops, restaurants and housing.

Stakes are high today for the city of Hewitt and four McLennan County school districts, as voters will decide whether raising taxes is worth the respective payoffs.

Lawrence Torres, 25, of Waco and his brother Jerry Torres, 31, of Bellmead died in a late night crash Sunday at the intersection of North 27th Street and West Waco Drive.

A convicted drug dealer found responsible for the death of an SMU co-ed will spend the rest of his life in prison.

WACO a 'Waco-area Taekwondo instructor Mitchell Cochran, 42, has been arrested on a warrant charging two counts of sexual assault of a child in connection with two incidents involving a middle school girl in 2005.

Construction workers found Meaghan Bosch's body on May 14, 2007 inside of a portable toilet in Hewitt.

The paroled murderer and drug dealer who was found responsible this past summer for the 2007 overdose death of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch will be sentenced by a federal judge this morning.

Two Waco men were killed in a car accident Sunday night just after 10:30 p.m. Lawrence Torres, 25, and his brother Jerry Torres, 31, were heading north in the 300 block of N. 27th in a 2003 Chevrolet half-ton pickup.

Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art will have two new exhibits on display beginning today and continuing through Nov.

A Texas woman has been killed in a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler semi in southern Oklahoma.

Authorities are investigating the death of a Dallas County jail inmate who died after fighting with another prisoner.

An 18-year-old from Roanoke was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to murder in the stabbing death of her mother.

Spc. Joshua Heath White, 29, of Bacliff, Texas was found dead Friday at his off-post residence, Fort Hood said Monday.

NAVARRO COUNTY a 'Charles Clemens, 17, of Barry in Navarro County died early Sunday morning in a one-vehicle accident on FM 744 about a mile-and-a-half south of Dresden.

Embers from a trash fire may have ignited a blaze that destroyed a backyard storage shed Sunday in Downsville, south of Waco.

The Hill County Sheriff's office is investigating the shooting death of a soldier home on leave from Iraq.