Ward News

There aren't a lot of electric cars in the city yet -- Mayor Todd Strange estimates about 100 -- but their numbers will surely increase in the years ahead as the automotive move away from total dependence on gasoline engines proceeds.

Jeffery Tyrone Riggs had been convicted in the January 2008 shooting death of his former girlfriend, Norber Payne, at her apartment in Center Point.

City Council approved legislation Tuesday night to create a Belleview Pool fund as part of a fundraising effort to open the swimming pool this summer and in future years.