Area News

Brookshire Grocery Co. to Invest More Than $33M in Employee Wages, Raise Minimum Hourly Pay to $11

Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) announced today that it raised wages for almost 13,500 hourly employeepartners which totals more than $33 million investment in salaries. Part of this investment is the company making the extra $1 per hour in COVID appreciation pay permanent for the hourly retail and logistics employeepartners along with raising the minimum pay for several positions in retail.

Parole Board again considering medical parole for convicted child killer Carlos Don Stultz

Limestone County District Attorney Roy DeFriend said he was shocked on the morning of Thursday, June 17 when he received an email from the state Parole Board, notifying him Carlos Don Stultz, the man convicted of assaulting and killing Mexia teen Kathy Jones in 1968, was being considered for a medical parole.

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