Articles by Bill Oliver

College Station Police reminds residents of back-to-school related matters. Click below to hear details from Sergeant Janice Kemp, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is wrapping up this summer’s road maintenance

HOUSTON (AP) _ Some Texas legislators are asking state environmental regulators to solve a permit dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that has left some of the nation’s largest oil refineries in operating limbo. [Read More…]

VIDOR, Texas (AP) _ Authorities say a grandfather and his two grandchildren were killed in an early morning fire in Texas. Sgt. Chad Hogan of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office says the bodies of 59-year-old [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Democrats have turned to the courts to challenge the eligibility of new Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell. Birdwell won the central Texas seat in a special election after the retirement [Read More…]

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) _ A polygamist leader in West Texas has agreed to pay child support dating to 2003, when his then-wife left the sect with their eight children. Frederick Merril Jessop, the bishop [Read More…]

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) _ A California company is recalling about 1 million pounds of ground beef products after seven people were sickened by E. coli contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that Valley [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ A federal appeals court says a Houston man on death row for raping and killing an 11-year-old boy more than two decades ago is entitled to a new sentencing trial but has [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ An Internal Revenue Service office will not return to the Texas building where a tax protester killed himself by crashing his plane into the structure. IRS spokeswoman Lea Crusberg said Thursday [Read More…]

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) _ An east Texas police officer has resigned following a videotaped stop in which he is heard and seen berating a speeding driver rushing a passenger to a hospital. KTRE-TV reports 73-year-old [Read More…]