Waco News

It takes a wacky idea, a penchant for precision, and extreme patience to make an Hermes scarf.

A woman was taken to a local hospital Wednesday morning after a collision between the pickup truck she was driving and an 18-wheeler in McGregor.

A man who thought he was going to have sex with a woman at a Waco motel early Wednesday ended up alone, naked and without his wallet and cell phone after two men robbed him at gunpoint.

The Waco Animal Welfare Advisory Board is proposing changes to the city's animal ordinance that would require that almost all dogs and cats be spayed or neutered and that all have microchips.

A federal judge has ordered a psychiatric assessment for Bryce Reed, the 31-year-old former West paramedic accused of possessing bomb-making materials, according to the Waco-Tribune Herald .

Jada Davis and Kaitlin Randle are this year's recipients of Franklin Rotary Club scholarships.

Two Mart police officers were taken to a Waco hospital Sunday evening for treatment of injuries they sustained in a car crash that happened while they were involved in a high speed chase with a suspect.

Authorities in Texas say at least five -- possibly as many as 15 -- people have been killed in the southwestern U.S. state as a result of Wednesday's massive explosion at a fertilizer plant.

Former Baylor star Brittney Griner said it was an "unwritten law" to keep her homosexuality private so she would not dissuade recruits from choosing the school.

Bond was set Friday at $1.5 million for once convicted Hewitt child killer Ed Graf who was returned to Waco last week after a state appeals court ordered the district court to review his 1988 conviction for capital murder in the fiery 1986 deaths of his two adopted sons.

While training as a playwright, I was taught that any gun brought onstage must go off.

The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013.

COUNTING COST: The aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas.

The 1st Court Of Appeals, based in Houston, on Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of Joyce McMillin Sturdivant, who was found guilty in December 2011 of killing her husband.

The Texas Department of Transportation in Waco is applauding the new "Move Over" bill, recently signed into law by Governor Rick Perry.

Two Waco police officers who were involved in a shooting in January that left a local man injured were cleared Wednesday by the McLennan County Grand Jury.

Former West EMS volunteer Bryce Ashley Reed, 31, who admitted to possessing components to make a pipe bomb, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Waco for possession of a destructive device.

This Thursday, April 18, 2013 file aerial photo shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas on April 17.

Animal bones and thousands of stone tools used by ancient hominins suggest that early human ancestors were butchering and scavenging animals at least 2 million years ago.

A 67-year-old man whose body was found late Tuesday morning in Lake Waco was the victim of what evidently was an accidental drowning, police said.