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 By J.J. Smith. A former Heath High School student, who is now a Hollywood actress and entertainer, will be co-starring in two more episodes of  “10 Things I Hate About You” on the ABC Family TV Network, to be broadcast Sept. 1st and 8th, 7-8 pm (Central Time). She will also appear on Fox TV’s ”Lie To Me,” Oct 12, [...]
By Jeff Mateer. TOMBALL- Rockwall’s Heritage Christian Academy (HCA) travelled to Tomball Friday night, suffering a one-sided 56-6 defeat to Rosehill Christian School in their opening game of the season.  Rosehill’s running attack dominated the game, rushing for 419 yards, led by senior running back Chase Oliver who carried 22 times for 334 yards. HCA’s only score [...]
Highland Park 30, Red Oak 7. Sophomore Preston Miller ran for a game high 164 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Highland Park Fighting Scots to a 30-7 victory over Red Oak at SMU’s Ford Stadium Saturday night. Senior quarterback Luke Woodley was suspended from the game after recently receiving a DWI. Backup signal-callers Jake Howeth [...]
Rockwall High School Coach Scott Smith said last month that Rockwall’s Yellow Jackets have plenty of talent this year and “can be as good as they want to be.” If Friday night’s victory over Midland is any indication, Rockwall could be pretty good. Junior running back Josh Broach ran over Midland newly-installed 4-3 defense for 193 yards [...]
Highland Park and Rockwall-Heath will once again battle it out for a district title. What Rockwall-Heath was able to do pretty much shook the ground in District 10-4A. You see, the Hawks were able to supplant the big bad Highland Park Scots as the district champs. This year, things will likely be back to normal. [...]
By J.J. Smith. Out of business for over the past month, Chandler’s Landing Country Club in Rockwall has been foreclosed upon and will be sold to the highest bidder Sept. 1 at the monthly Rockwall County Sheriff’s auction. The foreclosure auction takes place the first Tuesday of each month outside the front door of the Rockwall County office building at 1101 Ridge [...]
By J.J. Smith. Now that the federal government has announced the ”Cash for Clunkers” program in ending Aug. 24, Rockwall area auto dealers say the program has been a big help for boosting sales during the past two months, although collecting payments has been very difficult. Sales have increased about 25-30 percent at Lakeside Chevrolet and Heritage Buick Pontiac GMC, according [...]
 By J.J. Smith. Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney Kenda Culpepper and law enforcement agencies from across Rockwall County held a joint news conference Aug. 20 to announce a new pilot program designed to deter more people from driving drunk on County streets and highways over the Labor Day weekend. Between Labor Day and New [...]
Being reviewed are signatures on a liquor election petitioning that liquor by the drink be sold in the City of Fate. The city already has selling of beer and wine for off-premise consumption. Click here to read this Rockwall Co. Herald Banner story.
The Colonial Bank branch in Rockwall was shut down Friday by federal regulators as part of the fifth largest banking failure in history. It was was taken over Saturday by BB&T (Branch Banking & Trust Co.) The branch was one of 346 Colonial branches shut down, including the main office in Montgomery AL. No further local details are available until this coming week. [...]
