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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Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills because of more fires, air pollution and allergens.
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Morning Edition spoke to migrants hoping to enter the U.S. and the border agents tasked with keeping them out.
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In 1997, Apryle Oswald got in a car accident. The man who responded went on to help for three more days — driving her dog to the vet and Oswald's boyfriend back and forth to the hospital.
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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to win a third term, NPR visited some of his voter base in the north.
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Veterans who helped test nuclear weapons are fighting to renew a 34-year-old law meant to help compensate for the long-term health effects of their work.