Hood County News

As Johnson County communities go, Rock Tank was no hole in the road during The Great Depression.

By ALYSON WARD The new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History offers 166,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, historical artifacts and architectural beauty.

Sandra Miller, left, and Martin Flinn, right, both of Santo, stand with Buck Taylor on one of the sets for the feature-length movie, 'The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy,' Sunday.

One in 5 Tarrant County children might not get to eat at home without help from food stamps.

Editor's note: Nov. 11 is Veterans Day, and the Times-Review will publish stories of military veterans each Monday of the month.

Dagnabbit. Seems like every time I go looking for something from my five years at the Hood County News that I just absolutely have to have, I can't find it.

MITCH MITCHELL A woman who told police that she found her mother dead on the ground level floor of her two-story home this week has confessed to the killing, according to Hood County sheriff's deputies.

Brenda Kay Kiernan, 49, has been charged with the murder of her mother, 72-year-old Natha G. Hudson, after confessing to investigators, according to Hood County sheriff Roger Deeds.

Dallas Morning News staff writers were among the winners announced Tuesday afternoon at the Dallas Bar Association's annual Philbin Awards luncheon recognizing excellence in legal reporting.

So, what did he do? Jerry Tidwell, publisher of the Hood County News in Granbury, simply asked his U.S. congressional representative, the Honorable Chet Edwards, to sign on as a co-sponsor of House Resolution 2727.

Almost everything I know about horticulture I learned around Granbury. The Hood County News, where I worked for five years, is not necessarily proud of this, in that I learned virtually nothing beyond the fact that anything will grow anywhere for a while ... if treated with proper rest, care and composted bat dung.

Sara Ortega sortega@yahoo.com Ruel and Patricia Harold believed they had been lucky after an electrical fire claimed only one room of their home at 302 Navajo Trail.

James L. Hutchinson was married to Susan Hightower, daughter of Ephraim & Anne/ Annie Smith Hightower and sister to Charnal all of Laurens County, Georgia, at Bellville, Austin County, Texas in January 1856 .

GRANBURY, Texas - Call him "The Bird Man." It's not the crime that makes news in this case.

There are three moderately direct routes from Cleburne to Hood County, and each is flawed.

By MITCH MITCHELL Hood County sheriff's deputies fatally wounded a Granbury man they say was shooting at them on Monday.Randy Hamm, 55, was pronounced dead about 10 p.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.About two hours earlier, the Hood County sheriff's office received a call from a woman ...

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he not only found a dark corner in American history; he may have became a part of Texas history, too.

Cresson is located at the crossroads of U.S. 377 and Texas 171 on the Johnson-Hood County line.

A Hood County man thought to be living in Huntington has turned himself in to authorities on felony drug charges, according to a Lufkin Police spokesman.

Police are asking for your help to find a Hood County fugitive said to be living in the Huntington area.