Williamson County News

The storm pattern that created Monday's devastating Oklahoma tornado is expected to bring severe weather to parts of Texas.

Two women were killed in a head-on collision in Warren County on Tuesday evening.

Consumer advocates say Oncor has been charging its customers about $30 a year to pay its federal taxes-about $200 million dollars each year-but the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power determined Oncor's parent company hasn't paid taxes since 2008.

According to the arrest report, Bryan PD stopped 29-year-old Robert Ruiz after he allegedly drove through a red light.

On the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland , in which the justices ruled that prosecutors are obligated to provide defendants with exculpatory evidence "material either to guilt or to punishment," the Texas House tentatively approved two bills meant to prevent wrongful convictions.

A release from Williamson County District Attorney Jana Duty's office says Crispin James Harmel, 33, has been charged with the 2009 kidnapping, robbery, beating and strangulation death of 27-year-old Jessika Lynn Kalaher.

Bad dogs better beware in Round Rock. The city has the toughest punishment for dangerous dogs among Williamson County's largest cities.

It was 1982, he was 33, and he was participating in what's considered the world's largest rattlesnake roundup, held annually in Sweetwater, Texas.

Leander residents have voted down a proposition that would have put the city's fire department under civil service rules as it becomes a professional company.

Incumbents Carol L. Fletcher and Mario Acosta prevailed in their fight to be re-elected to the Pflugerville school board over opponents who opposed their recent votes to provide health benefits to the domestic partners of district employees, including those in same-sex relationships.

The massive three-story, red brick and concrete building looks like it just sprouted up among the farmland in eastern Williamson County.

The judges ruling in Houston, Texas to allow a group of high school cheerleaders to use Bible verses at football games draws cheers from some Sumner County parents and fans.

Kristine Noffsinger was charged with two counts of abandoning a child after a child protective services investigator found she had left her two young children home alone A Texas mother is facing two years behind bars after she allegedly checked her dog into a pet hotel but left her two young children home alone last month.

An arrest warrant accuses a 29-year-old Round Rock woman of pampering her pets but abandoning her 8- and 10-year-old daughters before leaving the state, according to an arrest warrant.

The Travis County Medical Examiner's Office performs autopsies and external exams for 42 other counties, charging $2,600 and $900 a pop respectively.

After visiting Tarrant County Judge Louis Sturns issued an arrest warrant for disgraced District Judge Ken Anderson, the former prosecutor booked himself to Williamson County Jail.

Danny Ramm has been drilling water wells in Central Texas for more than thirty years.

Travis County commissioners briefly debated guns on Tuesday before a vote to trade in old training pistols used by the sheriff's office for upgraded ones.

While their heroic deeds were many, their numbers now are few, as America's World War II generation slowly vanishes.

Judge Ken Anderson of the 277th District Court in Williamson County on April 19 turned himself in and then bonded out of the Williamson County jail after a court of inquiry issued two arrest warrants based on his alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence in the Michael Morton murder case.