It was a solemn day of reflection at the New Mount Carmel Center where 25 years ago, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians lost their lives when gunfire erupted after an attempt to serve warrants ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A local history buff recovered relics after the fire that burned the Branch Davidian compound in Elk, Texas to the ground and claimed nearly 80 lives. There wasn’t much left after ...

Smoking fire consumes the Branch Davidian Compound at end the 51-day standoff with group leader David Koresh and his followers.Greg Smith/Corbis/Getty Images In 1993, a religious sect refused to ...

WACO, Texas — In the ashes of the Branch Davidian site where nearly 80 people died in a 1993 blaze after an armed standoff with federal agents, a new religious community is slowly taking shape.

WACO — Visitors still trickle through the gates at the New Mount Carmel Center, a nondescript patch of central Texas prairie. Little is left of the Branch Davidians’ original compound, save for a ...

In two series timed to the 30th anniversary of the events, the fallout from a standoff between federal agents and an apocalyptic religious sect gets a second look. By Chris Vognar Thirty years ago, a ...

On Feb. 28, 1993, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the Branch Davidian's Mt. Carmel compound east of Waco looking for David Koresh — the leader of the sect officials ...

Branch Davidians Sheila Martin (left) and Clive Doyle talk following a ceremony marking the 25th year since the Branch Davidian compound fire. Martin lost a husband and several children in the fire, ...

Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents help a wounded fellow agent away from the Branch Davidian cult compound Feb. 28, 1993, after gunfire erupted as the agents attempted to execute an arrest ...

They turn onto a gravel road 10 miles east of Waco and pass through a black gate leading to a rural complex where David Koresh — leader of an apocalyptic religious sect known as the Branch Davidians — ...

WACO, Texas (RNS) — The curious keep coming. They turn onto a gravel road 10 miles east of Waco and pass through a black gate leading to a rural complex where David Koresh — leader of an apocalyptic ...