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Tuesday's Outlook: Improving Weather Last Updated: 4:43 AM 01/06/09 - Monday's wet and sometimes icy storms have mostly moved east out of the area, but not before Interstate traffic was snarled and flights cancelled. (Full Story)

No-Refusal Policy Nets Nearly A Dozen Arrests Bell County law enforcement agencies implemented a no-refusal policy this week for suspected drunken drivers during the holidays. (Full Story)

Severe Weather A Threat Early Saturday Then Fire Danger Rises Central Texas faces a thunderstorm threat during the first part of the day Saturday, and then the wildfire threat rises. (Full Story)

One Confirmed Dead In Fiery 18-Wheeler Crash At least one person is confirmed dead after an 18-wheeler veered off the interstate into a ravine and burst into flames Friday afternoon between Waco and Temple. (Full Story)

Local Fire Departments To Share In $5.7 Million For Wildfires Local fire departments that helped battle wildfires in 2005 to 2006 will share in $5.7 million in funding distributed by the Texas Forest Service. (Full Story)

Central Texas Counties Extend Outdoor Burning Bans Several Central Texas counties extended bans on outdoor burning Monday. (Full Story)

Interstate Lanes Reopened Police early Tuesday afternoon reopened lanes of Interstate 35 that were closed earlier in the day because of icing. (Full Story)

Trucker Returns From Restroom To Find Rig In Middle Of I-35 A trucker who went to wash his hands after fixing an engine problem Thursday evening at a Central Texas travel shop returned to find his rig in the middle of Interstate 35. (Full Story)

Waco's Week for Autism Raises Awareness and Funds April is Autism Awareness Month, April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day, and the week of April 13-19 is Waco's Week for Autism. The weekend of April 18 and 19 will see several events in Waco raising money and awareness to benefit programs for local families who have children with autism. (Full Story)

“Autism in Action” to host UMHB Art Day The TSTC Waco Student Government Association’s program “Autism in Action” continues on Saturday, March 29, at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton. (Full Story)

Grandkids seeing snow for the first time. Horses weathering it out. Last Updated: 1:55 PM 03/07/08 - Kids and horses enjoying the snow. (Full Story)

Scott & White: Urgent Alert For All Blood Types The Scott & White Blood Center has announced an urgent alert for all blood types. (Full Story)

Wild Horse Adoption in Corsicana Last Updated: 8:31 AM 01/30/08 - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption in Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 14-16, 2008. (Full Story)

Beautiful Snow in Riesel Small pictorial of snow covered, small town, USA. (Full Story)

Snow Play fun before school Last Updated: 11:41 AM 03/07/08 - The Date is wrong but it was such a nice sight to wake up to some Snow. (Full Story)

Time Warner To Test New Broadband Rate Plan: Pay For What You Use Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday. (Full Story)

Perfect Ending Move over, Peyton. Make room in the Manning family trophy case, Archie. (Full Story)

CPS Abuses of Power Harms Child Child removed from father's care because he told her story of Little Red Riding Hood! (Full Story)

Agricultural Workshop Jan. 16- Waco Convention Center Last Updated: 11:59 AM 01/04/08 - Many Texas farmers, ranchers and agribusiness professionals are finding creative ways to diversify their operations as a supplement to traditional agriculture. (Full Story)

Need money for College? CGS can help. College Goal Sunday is a financial aid workshop for anyone wanting to go to college -- anywhere. (Full Story)

McLane Co. in Temple, Texas, Agrees To Pay More Than $1.5 million In Back Wages To 570 Employees Following a U.S. Labor Department Investigation McLane Co. Inc., headquartered in Temple, Texas, has agreed to pay $1,559,316 in overtime back wages to 570 current and former retail merchandising specialists nationwide after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the company had misclassified employees and did not pay overtime wages required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). (Full Story)

Registration Information for Starburst Junior Golf Tournament On-line registration for the 10th annual Starburst Junior Golf Tournament begins at 8 a.m. (CST) on Feb. 14 at StarburstGolf.com. (Full Story)

Central Texas Woodworkers To Exhibit During Salado’sArtfully Yours Winter Festival Feb. 22-24 The Central Texas Woodworkers Show will be held February 22 through 24 at the Celebration Center in Salado Texas. Woodworkers from all over the area will be displaying their handiworks, ranging from small turned bowls and jewelry boxes to full sized furniture pieces. While some are re-creations of furniture styles long accepted as staples for home furnishing, others reflect the unique vision and craftsmanship of the artisan who produced them. (Full Story)

Wildlife Intensive Leadership Development Summer Camp Seeking Youth and Adults Do something different with your summer! The Texas Brigades is seeking students’ age 13-17 with curiosity and enthusiasm about wildlife, habitat, and conservation. (Full Story)

UMHB Spring Opera Last Updated: 3:11 PM 02/20/08 - The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Opera Theatre presents Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid & the Thief and The Telephone under the direction of George Hogan, Director of UMHB Opera Activities. (Full Story)

UMHB Lecture in the Humanities Last Updated: 3:12 PM 02/20/08 - Dr. David J. Jones, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at the University of Texas School of Medicine, will be the featured speaker at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26. Dr. Jones will be presenting “Personal Characteristics that Predict Success as a Health Care Provider,” as part of the Carolyn and Paxton Howard Lecture in the Humanities. (Full Story)

Giant Super Bowl Upset The Giants had the perfect answer for the suddenly imperfect Patriots: a big, bad defense and an improbable comeback led by their own Mr. Cool quarterback, Eli Manning. (Full Story)

Governor Issues Disaster Proclamation Over Wildfires Last Updated: 12:24 PM 01/30/08 - Gov. Rick Perry today issued a state disaster proclamation for 152 counties in response to the threat posed by wildfires rapidly spreading in areas across the state (Full Story)

Garrett Staying With Cowboys It looks as those Jerry Jones was able to keep his red hot offensive coordinator Jason Garrett. (Full Story)

Texas Education System leaves Children behind Last Updated: 8:51 AM 01/22/08 - A fine example of the Texas ISD failure to our kids... Just push em' through and let someone else worry about them! (Full Story)

I believe to have seen too a UFO in the sky Last Updated: 10:13 AM 01/16/08 - ufo sighting (Full Story)

Deal or No Deal, viewer at home won from Temple... Last Updated: 10:12 AM 01/16/08 - Do people really win those games shows? Well Deal or NO Deal flashed a winner from Temple, TX. I hope that who ever that person is, truly won!! (Full Story)

Volunteers are needed to break the cycles of child abuse/neglect. Last Updated: 3:35 PM 01/11/08 - Be a volunteer family coach and make a difference in Central Texas. (Full Story)

Organ Donations Up in 2007 119 Central and South Texans gave the Gift of Life in 2007 when their family members so generously agreed to donate their loved ones’ organs. (Full Story)

Comptroller Schedules Webinars to Inform Taxpayers About Revised Franchise Tax Business taxpayers with questions about the revised Texas franchise tax can learn the basics and more during four online seminars hosted by the state Comptroller’s office (Full Story)

UMHB College of Humanities Lecture Last Updated: 4:34 PM 01/25/08 - "China, the Olympics and UMHB" will be presented on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. on the campus of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Full Story)

UMHB Hosts Percussion Festival Last Updated: 3:26 PM 01/11/08 - The UMHB Music Department will host their 7th annual Percussion Festival on Friday, January 18 and Saturday, January 19 featuring guest marimba artist and award-winning composer Nathan Daughtrey. (Full Story)

Disney Institute Returns to Waco Feb. 7New Team Creativity Workshop Offered to Local Businesses Last Updated: 4:38 PM 01/09/08 - One-day professional development program open to local businesses. (Full Story)

Award Winning Classical Guitarist Showcased at UMHB The Department of Music at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor continues its season of the Hillman Visiting Artist Series with international award-winning classical guitarist, Petar Jankovic, in Hughes Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 28. The concert is free and open to the public. (Full Story)

Stillhouse VFD under new leadership Stillhouse VFD adopts new bylaws and have elections for officers. (Full Story)

Groesbeck Middle School Morning Track Practice Groesbeck Middle School track athletes practice in the snow. We introduce our newest runner! (Full Story)

Snow in Thornton it came quick, but wont last long (Full Story)

A little snow in Hallsburg! Last Updated: 1:54 PM 03/07/08 - We had about an inch of snow but mostly all gone by 10:00 am (Full Story)

Birthday Girl Snow on Birthday (Full Story)

Tis The Season For Dumping Your Unwanted Pets My sister and I run an unofficial pet rescue operation. We would love to be put out of business by responsible owners who have their pets spayed or neutered. (Full Story)

AUSA and Operation Life Transformed Unite to Support Caregivers and Spouses Operation Life Transformed (OLT) is a non profit organization run by active duty military spouses one of which is the care giver of a war wounded soldier stationed at Ft. Hood going through recovery. OLT seeks to provide funding for rapid certification programs for military spouses and caregivers nationwide. At this time OLT has given out 12 scholarship since December, 5 of which have been to Ft Hood spouses. (Full Story)

2008 ReZ'd Gaming Competition to benefit Food Pantry Gaming Competition open to ages 14 and up. (Full Story)

Enlow snags top honors with winning design Student designs college mascot. (Full Story)

Free RFID training for small businesses Small businesses can get customized training in Radio Frequency Identification (Full Story)

False statement from Hillary Clinton I was stationed at Camp bedrock, Bosnia when Sen. Clinton Landed for her visit. There was no sniper fire during her visit to the 212th MASH (Full Story)

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