Posted: 5:31 PM Southbound traffic was backed up for miles after an 18-wheeler dumped a 20-ton concrete culvert on Interstate 35 Friday afternoon.

Posted: 11:49 AM Police were looking for leads Friday after a local restaurant was robbed at gunpoint late Thursday night.

Updated: 4:20 PM 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.

Posted: 10:55 AM 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.

Updated: 2:51 PM A Central Texas teenager was arrested early Friday morning after holding police and sheriff’s deputies at bay.

Updated: 2:50 PM Police arrested a man Thursday night after patrons at a local bar said he pulled a gun on them.

Updated: 9:15 AM A woman was killed and three people, including two children, were injured in a crash on a Central Texas interstate.

Updated: 7:19 PM Officials Thursday identified the soldier who coordinated a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood who’s now accused of sexual assault.

Posted: 1:49 PM An investigation was underway Thursday after two bodies were found inside a burning home in rural Central Texas.

Posted: 1:29 PM A Central Texas woman shot and killed her husband in self-defense, a grand jury ruled in declining to hand up an indictment.

Posted: 12:09 PM 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.

Updated: 11:03 PM 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.

Updated: 10:17 AM Thunderstorms that rolled through Central Texas Wednesday night left some area residents without power through Thursday morning.

Posted: 9:11 AM 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.

Updated: 5:29 PM 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.

Updated: 7:11 PM 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.

Updated: 2:02 PM Two police officers involved in a shooting that left a local man injured were cleared Wednesday by a grand jury.

Updated: 7:10 PM The coordinator of the Army sexual assault prevention office at Fort Hood has been accused of abusive sexual contact.

Updated: 9:03 AM Police Wednesday identified the 65-year-old man who evidently drowned while trying to launch a boat in a local lake.

Updated: 9:04 AM 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.

Updated: 7:25 AM Officials in Georgetown have summoned more than 1000 prospective jurors as the selection process begins for the upcoming Albert Love capital murder trial.

Updated: 9:05 AM A new Texas law will require drivers to yield to TxDot vehicles.

Posted: 6:11 PM U.S. Reps. John Carter, R-Round Rock and Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, have filed legislation that would provide an incentive for gun owners to secure firearms.

Updated: 7:09 PM A federal court hearing for a West EMS volunteer who admitted to possession of the components to make a pipe bomb was canceled Wednesday.

Updated: 6:01 PM The results of the joint investigation of the deadly April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West will announced Thursday.