Somerville News

A concert is scheduled Thursday in Somerville to benefit the volunteer fire department.

This past weekend I went on a most enduring bike ride. This trial, hidden among post oaks and yaupons, had the most alluring characteristics.

Right on cue, Neiman Marcus is hosting the Beauty Event Thursday through Sunday .

The Caldwell City Council unanimously approved Danny McElroy as the new chief of police one day after the completion of his standard six-month probationary period.

Sometimes history reaches over and slaps you like a Zen master, thereby rearranging your perceptions.

A Burleson County family's world was turned upside-down late Sunday afternoon. A fire sparked in the Jackson's home on Big Berry Road west of Somerville just before 5 p.m. Firefighters believe it was faulty wiring that led to the blaze, which left the home as a total loss, with nothing inside salvageable.

Brenham school officials said they were shocked when the Texas Education Agency released accountability scores this year.

Brenham school officials said they were shocked when the Texas Education Agency released accountability scores this year.

The parade will begin at MK Brown Auditorium, making it's way downtown via Somerville, Francis, Cuyler, and Foster, then will end back at the auditorium.

A more than 16 hour search on Lake Somerville near Apache Hills in Burleson County ended around 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening, when searchers discovered the body of a missing 45-year-old fisherman from Arkansas.

Burleson County officials Monday confirmed the identity of a man found dead a day earlier at Lake Somerville.

When: Sunday, July 26, 2009 Where: St. Ann 's Catholic Church in Somerville ; 333 Thornberry Drive Choose from authentic mexican plates or barbeque for only $8 per plate Dance the afternoon away to the music of The Country Express, and enjoy family fun for everyone with a Live and Silent auction, a raffle, and kid-friendly games like a Moonwalk, ...

Authorities in Burleson County are at Welch Park at Lake Somerville to search for a man who went missing on the water and is feared to have drowned.

Although two juries have sided with BNSF Railway Co. in separate lawsuits claiming chemicals in a railroad tie plant in Central Texas caused cancer, dozens of similar lawsuits will go forward, an attorney said.

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before deciding against a Somerville man who blames his cancer on his former employer, Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway.

CreditAnswers, a debt management and settlement company, leased 31,000 square feet of office space from Adler Realty Investments Inc.

A 60-year-old Somerville man died Friday after the lawn mower he was riding was struck by a vehicle on Texas 36, just north of Somerville, authorities said.

New details in a Burleson County trial, alleging an area tie-plant caused a Somerville man's cancer.

For years after visiting a railroad tie manufacturing plant in Somerville, members of an industrial waste cleanup team used the plant as a reminder to wear safety equipment, a witness told jurors Friday.

Somerville resident Dennis Davis was an athletic and active 19-year-old when he began his career at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.