Waxahachie News

The Evangel University men's basketball will open the 2009-10 season tonight against Texas Wesleyan, ranked No.

By Nathan Straus nstraus@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Jacksonville College choir and wind ensemble is revved up for the campus' annual Fall Opening Concert.

This story is a legend, one that is familiar to most of us, but how many of us have put it in the context of a romantic novel? How about this plot: Take a young, beautiful Minnesota girl, aspiring to be a model, who travels to New York City to give it a try, changes her mind, when she returns for a holiday to Minnesota, and meets her dream guy, a ...

Defense lawyer Rodney Pat Ramsey will take on longtime incumbent Ron Brown in the Republican Party primary for county commissioner.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 6:06 pm US/Central By Sana Syed WAXAHACHIE Have you ever been to a real haunted house? The owners of the Catfish Plantation Restaurant in Waxahachie say they are ranked as one of the most active paranormal places in the world.

By AMAN BATHEJA Dozens of Texas companies and a few cities are vying for a slice of stimulus money aimed at providing speedy Internet access to everyone in the country.The $787 billion federal stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama in February includes $7.2 billion to expand access to broadband Internet.

Beebe First Assembly of God is pleased to announce Nathan Hubbard as the new Associate Pastor.

The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees filled two positions at their meeting Friday morning.

Lubbock school district trustees on Friday hired a Dallas-area administrator to handle human resources for the district.

Waxahachie's Jamison Sterns on Thursday confirmed he has committed to play basketball for UTEP.

I hate to get on the bad side of some of our more illustrious politicians - most are smarter than me; all, being politicians, are certainly wealthier - but this column may land me in hot water with a few Austinites.

The donation was made possible through the generosity of Wanda Williams Chiles in memory of her late husband W. Brown Chiles, Jr.

Fall brings football games, cooler weather and maybe a trip to Plantersville and the Texas Renaissance Festival.

Three times a week, Texan traveler Billy Stoffregen gets dialysis. And if he's in Miami or Rome or Harrison, Ark., at the time, so be it.

Barricades blocking the Baylor Street railroad underpass, a flood-prone area of downtown, were out of the road by early afternoon Tuesday.

Share + Oct 13, 2009 5:13 pm US/Central By Selena Hernandez NORTH TEXAS Heavy rains waterlogged much of North Texas Tuesday.

Ten days after Jerry Buchmeyer's death, Tena Callahan paid tribute. Local LGBT advocates said this week they feel Judge Callahan's Oct.

In advance of its 2010 domestic release -- and just in time for Halloween -- comes a sneak preview of The Beacon starring Teri Polo , David Rees Snell, Elaine Hendrix, recent Emmy Award winner Ken Howard, and genre legend Michael Ironside.

Two southbound lanes of traffic on I-35E just south of Waxahachie will be channeled onto new concrete where the highway mainlanes are being rebuilt just south of FM 329 to north of Johnston Road.

As part of ongoing surveillance, Fitch Ratings affirms the 'A' rating for Waxahachie Independent School District , Texas' approximately $98 million in outstanding unlimited tax bonds.