Kempner News

Master Sgt. Bradley Scott Bryan, 48, of Mohogany, Tenn., who had been assigned to the Warrior Transition Brigade since May 2008, has died Tuesday at his home in Kempner from an existing illness, Fort Hood said Thursday.

The Texas Department of Public Safety was investigating an accident Sunday that killed one Kempner teen and injured three others.

DPS says a 1998 Chevrolet Lumina driven by 19-year-old Jordan Lee Mason crashed around 3:15 a.m. Sunday on Farm-to-Market 580, about 3.8 miles east of Rumley, TX.

Hands slap together in thunderous claps, voices lift toward the heavens in song and shouts of praise, and bodies rock side to side, all guided in harmony by an unseen but tangible energy.

The Lampasas County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Rangers are investigating after a 12-year-old boy who was found unresponsive at a rural residence died at a Central Texas hospital.

A Lampasas County sheriff's deputy who pulled over a suspicious vehicle that had stolen license plates thwarted an ATM burglary in Kempner and arrested three Central Texas men who may be linked to a month-long theft and burglary spree.

P.J. Egbert was in a hurry Saturday night and it's not hard to understand why. The defending IMCA Modified national champion found out minutes before heading out to seek career modified win No.

Three weeks between race nights was too long. Close to five hours of racing on one night might have been too much.

By Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald KEMPNER - Lampasas Independent School District officials didn't force Jonathan Harris through the cracks.

An almost unanimous city council approved a resolution Thursday opposing a controversial bill critics said would make secret all information about deadly germs studied at the Galveston National Laboratory.

By Jade Ortego and Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald Every vote counted in the Lampasas Independent School District board of trustees elections, with both incumbents, Andrew Irvin and Max Keele, losing in close races to challengers Mark Bishop and Dan Claussen.

Notice of Estray On April 16th, 2009 the Burnet County Sheriff's Office impounded three head of cattle from the 2600 Block of Panther Creek Road, Kempner, Texas in the Northwest part of the County.

The Galveston City Council is reviewing a 42-project plan to rebuild the island, but at least one issue is not receiving consensus, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

By Michelle Rodriguez Killeen Daily Herald LAMPASAS - County residents openly discussed the impending drainage problems around Pecan Valley in Kempner during an open session Monday with the Lampasas County Commissioners' Court.

If an island could dance, this one would have done the Charleston last week. The University of Texas Board of Regents approved a plan to keep the school's Medical Branch here, preserving the island's largest employer and laying what many see as the cornerstone to Galveston's economic recovery from Hurricane Ike.

There were thrills, chills and even a late-night six-car wreck..just the things race fans go to the track and hope to see.

Over the past forty years, the U.S. bird population has fallen. A new government report shows that energy production along with development is contributing to the decline in bird populations.

Howard Cheek's image of a cardinal in the backyard of his home in the Lampasas County community of Kempner has won the grand prize in the Nature Conservancy's 2008 Nature Photo Contest, in which there were more than 14,000 entries.

Herald/Catrina Rawson A finished quilt hangs on the wall for display at the Sew and Quilt store in Killeen.

By Iuliana Petre Killeen Daily Herald Bonnie Wilson and Marina Mathes have been friends for more than 15 years and have lived only two streets apart from one another in Kempner the entire time.