A Corsicana man is accused of abducting a Parker County acquaintance in March, taking her about 100 miles away to his home in Corsicana, and returning to her house and setting it on fire.Read more

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A new area has been built for livestock more than five years after animal sales were stopped at the monthly market.Read more

Like a growing number of school districts across Texas, Weatherford ISD voted unanimously Thursday to join one of four groups suing the state for the funding crisis that is plaguing the school system.Read more

Enrollment at Weatherford College may be down from this time last year but it's no cause for alarm, according to a report the Board of Trustees received at Thursday's monthly meeting.Read more

After just a little more than a year since construction began, it looks as though the City of Weatherford's First Monday Trade Days (FMTD) grounds will be prepared to welcome back the sale of livestock beginning March 1.Read more

On Feb. 3, a Parker County jury sentenced Chuck Allen Little, 43, of Madill, Okla., to 99 years in prison for kidnapping a Weatherford woman in March of 2011. The jury also sentenced Little to 50 years in prison for burglary of a habitation of the same woman's residence. Little chose to represent himself during the trial, discharging the lawyer the court had previously appointed.Read more

The life sentence a Parker County jury assessed to a Fort Worth man with 13 prior felony convictions was affirmed in an opinion by a Fort Worth appeals court rendered on Feb. 2.Read more

Parker County Sheriff's deputies made a record number of arrests resulting from outstanding warrants on Feb. 7.Read more

On Feb. 5, Weatherford Police officers were dispatched to two different churches in the same general vicinity that had been burglarized. Officers responded to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints located at 2251 Bethel Rd and Cow Camp Cowboy Church located at 401 I-20 E, where representatives reported that sometime during the overnight hours, unknown suspect(s) entered both churches in an attempt to commit theft.Read more

A Weatherford company has settled a sexual discrimination lawsuit with the government after a woman complained of crude comments, unwanted touching and a manager who exposed himself to her on multiple occasions, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.Read more