Waco News

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.

Located just 10 minutes outside of downtown Waco, Texas, this hotel provides free shuttle service to/from Waco Regional Airport.

About 25,0000 quarters were recovered after a car driven by a suspect in a business break-in veered off an Interstate 35 overpass and crashed at the base of the bridge following a police pursuit through West, authorities said Tuesday.

If convicted, 26-year-old Albert Love faces the death penalty for the murders of two Waco men back in 2011.

A Coryell County woman was held Monday in the Coryell County Jail after she was arrested and charged in connection with a bizarre extortion plot that targeted a former coworker whose husband is a retired Department of Public Safety trooper.

Two men and a woman were taken to a local hospital morning after two cars collided at around 10:30 a.m. Monday at the intersection of North 18th Street and Sanger Avenue in Waco.