Bell County News

By Justin Cox Killeen Daily Herald BELTON - A Bell County jury sentenced a 19-year-old man to eight years in prison Thursday for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2006.

Rare July storms that fired up Monday, prompting weather advisories for several counties, downed tree limbs in parts of southeastern Bell County, where officials said heavy rain fell Monday afternoon.

A mother and daughter are behind bars after police say they plotted the out-of-town escape murder suspect Antown Harris.

Feature: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Smith: "That's not OK with us. That's not the law." Courtesy Roan Mathews.

An Austin police officer wound up behind bars for driving while intoxicated after Bartlett police said he tried to get out of a sobriety test by flashing his badge.

A suspect in a Bell County murder is in a Michigan jail, after being arrested there Wednesday afternoon.

Updated: Jul 10, 2008 7:34pm Bell County wants to expand the routes of its bus system to meet a growing demand.

By Justin Cox Killeen Daily Herald An 82-year-old Temple man was indicted Wednesday on a charge that he stabbed a man with a knife.

United States Marshals from Grand Rapids, Mich. arrested Antwon Harris today. Harris is wanted by Killeen police in connection with the May 1 death of Frederick John Dimock Jr.

It took firefighters 12 hours overnight to control a brush fire Monday in Bell County.

Updated: Jul 6, 2008 11:19pm It's been a weekend of grassfires across the area. A second major fire sparked up Sunday in Bell County.

Police were closing several roads to traffic early Sunday afternoon because of a spreading grassfire in the area of Featherline and Chaparral south of Killeen that was threatening a trailer park.

Two more victims have been identified by police officials in the Aggravated Sexual Assualt case involving former Youth Baseball League coach, William Jacobsen.

From staff reports Two more people came forward this weekend alleging they were sexually assaulted by a Little River-Academy youth baseball coach identified by the Bell County Sheriff's office last week of ...

Updated: Jul 2, 2008 10:37pm A woman is in stable condition after her car went off the road in Bell County and crashed into a trailer.

Two men and one woman were apprehended after they allegedly burglarized a house in Killeen.

Herald/David Morris Sandra Lamb, of Scurry, 45 miles southeast of Dallas, talks to her husband, Larry, on the phone while unloading fireworks at her stand Tuesday morning on State Highway 195 south of Killeen.

Updated: Jun 30, 2008 6:41pm The state of Texas is in another widespread drought.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald A double homicide that shocked the community almost a year ago has also stumped the Killeen Police Department.

From staff reports Killeen police arrested four people making headway on three burglaries since Tuesday.