Valley Mills News

If you depend on Starbucks to give you a daily dose of caffeine, you may have to find another place to get that jolt of java.

On Tuesday, Starbucks detailed the first 50 of the 600 stores it will close. Only one store in North Texas is currently set to close, the store at Illinois Avenue and Westmoreland Road.

China Spring and Valley Mills independent school districts are inching closer to seeing the payoff from the bond elections they held more than a year ago.

In 1974, Roland Johnson got a speeding ticket. Johnson got the ticket in Valley Mills, halfway between Meridian, where he worked as a youth minister at a Methodist church, and Waco, where he was studying ...

Editor's note: Trib staff writer Terri Jo Ryan has battled weight problems most of her life.

Speaking of bicycles, why doesnt the Waco downtown area or any area in Waco have bike lanes for people that want to ride their bike to work? With gas prices going up, the best way the city can help its citizens ...

Updated: May 30, 2008 10:40pm Search crews in three Central Texas counties spent another day searching for a missing woman who disappeared Wednesday.

Two helicopters and a number of patrol units converged Thursday afternoon on Highway 317 between Crawford and Valley Mills as the search continued for missing Bosque County News Managing Editor La Dawn Garland, ...

The folks at Best Life magazine say Waco is one of the worst cities in which to raise a family, but they don't actually live here.

League coaches announced the District 14-A all-district baseball squad on Wednesday, revealing the selection of five Evant Elks to the elite squad.

Police have found a vehicle suspected to be involved in a Hit-and-Run accident that left one teenager dead another in critical condition.

A Friday night hit-and-run accident claimed the life of one Central Texas teenager and left another in critical condition, authorities say. via Waco Tribune-Herald

Police are looking for any leads in the investigation of a hit and run accident that killed one teenager and left another in critical condition late Friday night.. Bree Anne Brechener, 17, of Bruceville-Eddy ... via KWTX

Funeral services for Sarah Kathryn Withers Hampton will be held at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home in Harlingen at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2008 with John Kutzenberger and Rev. via Valley Morning Star

NWS relaying TV reports of penny size hail covering the ground in Valley Mills, and I just heard KXXV reporting dime size hail in China Spring, and now nickel size hail in Gholson. via Waco Tribune-Herald

“The American people and the Iraqi people want the war ended and we call on Bush and the Congress to remove all the troops from Iraq and the mercenaries and no permanent military bases”

Updated: Mar 19, 2008 7:05pm Another group remembered the Iraq War anniversary in a different way; by holding a peace protest in Waco. via KCEN

“It wouldn't have been possible. He wasn't there. He was not there. He was in Giddings, Texas”

By Lacie Morrison lmorrison@mineralwellsindex.com PALO PINTO - Former Graford ISD coach Michael Craig Floyd took the stand in his own defense Thursday afternoon, denying allegations made by a former female ... via Mineral Wells Insider

Baylor University's Mayborn Museum, 1300 S. University-Parks Drive, is offering free admission after 4 p.m. Thursday. via Waco Tribune-Herald

A Pregnant woman was rushed to the hospital after she was trapped in her truck when it overturned and fell into a ravine along Highway 6 near Valley Mills. via KXXV-TV Waco

'A pregnant woman who lost control of her car Monday morning on a rain-slicked Highway 6 just outside of Valley Mills had to be extricated from the wreckage before she could be taken to a local hospital. via KWTX