GLEN ROSE - Building plans are stalled on the Rock Ridge Estates development after the Glen Rose City Council denied a variance request from the developer to proceed with home construction, despite the temporary absence of retaining walls as a result of concrete shortages.
GLEN ROSE — Although July 4 is Monday, Somervell County residents can kick off the celebration a day early with all the events planned this weekend to commemorate our nation’s Independence. Sunday night is Glen Rose Night at the Cleburne Railroaders.
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island Thursday, potentially easing the threat to the vital Ukrainian port city of Odesa, but kept up their push to encircle the last stronghold of resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
The 2022 Texas hay production outlook appears in doubt due to high fertilizer prices and widespread drought, said Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. Joe Paschal, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension livestock specialist, Corpus Christi, and Vanessa Corriher-Olson, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton, said dry weather, high temperatures and reduced inputs like fertilizer have inhibited warm-season grass production across much of Texas.
Haiku poems for this week: Library card my passport to faraway lands Dust blankets the well-worn book cover chance for rediscovery .
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 5,887,579 visitors to national parks in Texas spent $370,500,000 in the state in 2021. That spending resulted in 5,412 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $578,500,000.
With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance.
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.
Authorities say 50 people have died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, one of the worst tragedies to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. The deaths were the latest in what has become a global series of mass deaths occurring during human trafficking attempts. Big rigs emerged as a popular smuggling method in the early 1990s amid a surge in U.S. border enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, which were then the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.