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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Pulitzer Prizes honor American achievements in journalism, letters and drama, and music. They are widely recognized as the most prestigious awards in their field within the United States.
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Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of agency and consciousness. Her book is The Light Eaters.
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The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.
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Hamas said it accepted a proposal for a cease-fire. Israel responded that the deal didn't meet its requirements and announced it was pushing ahead with an assault in Rafah.
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Columbia cancels its main ceremony, while Emory's events will now take place in the suburbs outside its Atlanta campus. The moves come after weeks of protests against the war in Gaza.