KWTX-TV (Waco, TX)

2 days ago | kwtx.com | Tommy Witherspoon

HILLSBORO, Texas (KWTX) - Testimony is set to begin Tuesday morning in the burglary trial of a Hill County man who caused mistrials in two previous efforts to select a jury in the case by punching his attorney in the face in December and causing a disturbance at his first trial.

4 days ago | kwtx.com | Tommy Witherspoon

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The capital murder retrial of a Dallas man charged in a conspiracy to rob and kill his co-defendant’s Waco landlord in December 2022 is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Waco’s 19th State District Court. Brandon Stephens, 21, is the co-defendant of James Keylan Willis, also of Dallas, who was sentenced to an automatic life prison term with no parole after his capital murder conviction last week in the death of 59-year-old Stanley Wilcox.

4 days ago | kwtx.com | Tommy Witherspoon

HILLSBORO, Texas - Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of a Hill County man who twice has caused mistrials during previous jury selection efforts, including blinding his former attorney in one eye after punching him in the face in front of 80 potential jurors. Christopher Donte Loud, who turns 40 on Wednesday, is set to stand trial in 66th State District Court on charges he broke into his 87-year-old grandmother’s home in Hubbard and struck her in the head in October 2023.

5 days ago | kwtx.com | Madison Herber

TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - For the first time in five decades the Hawn Hotel in Temple, now known as Hawn Plaza, is back in business opening dozens of apartment units for rent. After two years, the Hawn Hotel has a slightly new name with the same historic charm generations of Central Texans have grown to love. “They’re very beautiful and spacious apartments,” Hawn Plaza Leasing Agent Lashonda Mosley said.

5 days ago | kwtx.com | Julie Hays

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Central Texas 9-year-old returned to school for the first time this school year after being diagnosed with cancer in June. Brittyn Dodd, of Groesbeck, received a heartwarming ‘welcome back’ as students and staff lined the hallways and cafeteria chanting for the young girl and holding up signs when she entered Enge-Washington Intermediate in Groesbeck for her first day in person of fourth grade. “It made me feel so happy and surprised,” Brittyn said.