Opal Lee spent years fighting for the recognition of June 19 as a national holiday.
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Join Luke and his guest Dodge City Marshal Allen Bailey this week. The marshal is an expert bow builder and Luke originally planned to talk bow building with the good marshal but the talk quickly morphed into the early days of Dodge City, Kansas. Bailey was the official Marshal for seventeen years and traveled all over promoting Dodge City. Luke promised to get the marshal back and discuss the art of building bows from scratch. Learn more about Bailey and his show at www.westernswingandotherthings.com
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Two Greenville ISD board seats are among the offices up for grabs around the region in Saturday's elections.
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This Saturday (May 4), the Honey Grove Library will host a presentation from Tessa Boucher on the Riverby Ranch habitat-creation project in northeastern Fannin County.
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Jacob Harrison Pollard of Royse City and Justin Allen Hopkins of Quinlan have been charged with aggravated robbery.
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The public is invited to a silent auction and market at the Sam Rayburn Student Center.
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Federal regulators are trying to prevent bad actors from switching unknowing consumers' Obamacare coverage. Their fixes risk making enrollment so cumbersome that people won't want to sign up.
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Four years after COVID disrupted high school graduations, many college seniors are looking forward to their first real commencement. Student protests are forcing some to adjust their expectations.
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Ryan Riccucci, a 17-year agency veteran, says he feels the agency is misunderstood by the U.S. public.
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Rescue teams worked searching for dozens of construction workers buried under the rubble after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.
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An Israeli tank brigade seized control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife's edge.