Print from John Moore’s personal collection. When I was a child, there was a painting that hung on my grandmother’s kitchen wall. It portrayed a man who was praying over a meal of bread and what appeared to be a bowl of soup. Near the man was a book, which I always...
Wylie ISD officials want to do something to better deal with student discipline, as there have been reports of 65 employees who have been physically hurt by students since the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, with 19 of these people requiring medical care for...
The woman approached Lone Star Circuits and said she wanted a job and would work hard, and then she said something else that she found relevant. She had a horse to feed. Steven B. Cole told that story about an employee's grit to high school students gathered in a...
The Collin County Courthouse is closed to the public and employees today and Tuesday because of an electrical outage, county officials said. The electrical outage at the Collin County Courthouse affects all escalators, elevators, fire pumps and chilled water pumps....
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 7 that a third special session begins on Sept. 20, with redistricting one of the issues to be considered. The session will include four other agenda items: American Rescue Plan Act appropriations, transgender athletes' participation in...
State Rep. Candy Noble said she is ready to come back home after being in Austin this summer because of the special session. “It has been a long summer stuck in Austin in two special sessions,” she said. “I miss my family, friends and my House District 89...
Whitt Elementary School fourth-grade math teacher Madison Shattuck missed the conventional rhythms of classroom instruction last year. “Excited is mainly what I am,” she said about the return to normal classroom teaching this year, when teachers will have classes in...
Stock cars sizzle the Texas Motor Speedway track at speeds clocking in at more than 200 miles per hour during races. Solar cars designed and built don’t travel nearly that fast at TMS, but they’re not built for speed. Jacob Price and Muhammad Murtaza spent mid-July...
The new baseball stadium in Arlington — Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers — opened last year. Globe Life Field was built to attract more fans during the long, hot days of summer in North Texas One local sports scribe said some time back that the team’s...
