Southbound traffic was backed up for miles after an 18-wheeler dumped a 20-ton concrete culvert on Interstate 35 Friday afternoon.

Police were looking for leads Friday after a local restaurant was robbed at gunpoint late Thursday night.

Bond was set at $1.5 million Friday for a Central Texas man whose capital murder conviction for the fiery deaths of his adopted sons was vacated 25 years after he was sent to state prison.

Three people were jailed Friday in Central Texas, charged in the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a burned out rural home.

A Central Texas teenager was arrested early Friday morning after holding police and sheriff’s deputies at bay.

Police arrested a man Thursday night after patrons at a local bar said he pulled a gun on them.

A woman was killed and three people, including two children, were injured in a crash on a Central Texas interstate.

Officials Thursday identified the soldier who coordinated a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood who’s now accused of sexual assault.

An investigation was underway Thursday after two bodies were found inside a burning home in rural Central Texas.

A Central Texas woman shot and killed her husband in self-defense, a grand jury ruled in declining to hand up an indictment.

The “emergency planning and response system worked,” West Mayor Tommy Muska said Thursday in a letter distributed to the media, apparently in response to coverage critical of the state of local preparedness before the deadly April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.

The weeks-long investigation of the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion identified three possible causes of the fire that caused the blast, two accidental and the third intentional, officials said Thursday.

They’re all West ISD graduates, and for the first time, members of West's school board toured the campuses damaged by the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.

Thunderstorms that rolled through Central Texas Wednesday night left some area residents without power through Thursday morning.

A rare $10 bill that bears the name of the town of West will be sold at auction next week to benefit families of the victims of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion.

Sheriff’s deputies were able to convince a man who was holding a woman hostage inside a house in rural Central Texas to surrender after about two hours.

Two police officers involved in a shooting that left a local man injured were cleared Wednesday by a grand jury.

The coordinator of the Army sexual assault prevention office at Fort Hood has been accused of abusive sexual contact.

Police Wednesday identified the 65-year-old man who evidently drowned while trying to launch a boat in a local lake.

A Houston appeals court on Tuesday upheld the 2011 conviction of a Central Texas woman who was found guilty of killing her husband in October 2008.