Saginaw News

Peter Cross and Joshua Hazlewood died in separate incidents during the last week of June, 2009.

He wanted to be a missionary but decided he needed to mature a little first. So Peter Kyle Cross of Saginaw joined the Army in August 2008 and was shipped to Afghanistan in February.

As of Monday, June 29, 2009, at least 640 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

A Fort Drum soldier was killed in a rollover accident in Afghanistan last Friday.

Fort Worth and 14 other cities that contract with ambulance provider MedStar are reluctant to boost payments until MedStar can improve its response times, especially to calls involving potentially life-threatening injuries.

Fire, likely caused by lightning, destroyed this house on Park Dr. early Thursday, June 11, 2009, in far northwest Fort Worth.

A North Texas teenager with a learning disability blames school administrators for not allowing her to graduate for the second year in a row.

Another stadium light pole has fallen. This time, a defective light pole collapsed at Little Elm ISD's athletic stadium as workers tried to remove it on Tuesday.

A 29-year-old Saginaw, Texas, man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 today in the May 2008 drunken-driving death of Adam Martinez Jr.

Jason Modgling, 29, pleaded guilty today to intoxication a manslaughter charge in the May 2008 drunk driving death of Adam Martinez Jr., of Waco.

Rows of stadium lights atop the poles, which were manufactured by now-bankrupt Fort Worth-based Whitco Co LLP, caused them to weaken and crack over several years and, in some cases, fall, engineers at Saginaw-based CHM Industries concluded.

Biology graduate student Angela Fornell talks to Cascades Apartments representative Yolanda Matinez at The Shorthorn Housing Fair in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge.

Several members of the Capital City Weekly staff have recently been promoted to new roles at the Juneau-based publication, which is owned by Morris Communications, Co.

New board members, honorary board members and executive committee members were elected at the 132nd Annual Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Convention in Fort Worth.

Growing up, Bill Martin was not considered a funny guy. So when the Saginaw, Texas, native called his parents to tell them he was going to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian, there was silence on the other end of the line.

Manuel Beltran of Better Insulation sprays insulation into an attic in Saginaw as part of an Oncor program.

The chairman of the House Public Education Committee has filed a bill to reverse Gov.

Aldi, the German-owned no-frills discount grocery chain, has secured eight locations in Tarrant County - half of those in Fort Worth - where it plans to build stores by 2010, the company has confirmed.

Jessica Johnston has always done pretty well at Tarrant County's Junior Livestock Show.

Manuel Beltran of Better Insulation, a local contractor working under an Oncor program, sprays insulation into the attic of Charla Merideth's Saginaw, Tx home on Thursday Feb.