Roanoke News Archives

Emily Lites, left holds the laptop with her mother's blog as her father Mike Ortiz, and mother Jennifer and brother Jude sit around the sofa in their Roanoke home Wednesday June 3, 2009.

Jennifer Ortiz writes a blog about her son who suffered a stroke before birth. With her are daughter Emily, husband Mike and son Jude.

Babe's Chicken Dinner House is synonymous with the city of Roanoke and Mark Snopek is a 15 year regular.

Krugerville officials want the city to have its own ZIP code rather than sharing 76227 with Aubrey and Cross Roads.

June 16, 2009 John Johnston of Arlington, Texas, announces the engagement and approaching marriage of his daughter, Jennifer Marie, to Matthew William Lohse of Roanoke, Texas.

Flames from a backyard grill ignited the back of a home Sunday evening in Trophy Club, causing significant damage, the community's fire chief said.

The Iowa Department of Transportation has laid out its five-year improvement plan, and a large chunk of the money is going to Sioux City.

By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR. DENTON -- A Haslet teen who earlier in the day was certified to face capital murder charges as an adult was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday afternoon for the killing of his girlfriend's mother in Roanoke last fall.As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Paul Allen Henson Jr., 17, pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday ...