Dry to critically dry surface fuel combined with moderate fire danger will support moderate initial attack fire potential for the Cross Timbers, Eastern Hill Country, eastern Rolling Plains, Central Texas, and East Texas through Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was brought into a New York courtroom Tuesday in a prison uniform and with her ankles shackled to await her sentence for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
A Fort Worth man discovered with a Glock pistol equipped with a “switch” – a device that converts ordinary semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic machine guns – has been tried and convicted of a federal firearm crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
Recently, I came across a copy of an old letter I had written some 24 years ago to my dad and my fatherin-law, both WWII veterans. I wrote this letter shortly after seeing the gripping, Academy award-winning movie “Saving Private Ryan.” With this being Memorial Day weekend coming up, I thought it apropos to share this letter with you, the readers.
It’s an expression rarely heard these days, perhaps because there are so many lenses through which lifein-a-hurry can be viewed. When’s the last time you heard, “I saw it with my own eyes”? I never expected to see gambling interests advertising on TV sports or promotion of something called bitcoins.
Glenda and Ross moved to Texas last August from Ohio, where they had executed wills five years ago. Nothing else in their family circumstances had changed so they never considered they might need to make new wills.
The memory is lodged in my brain’s recesses, as closely as mistletoe clings to mesquite trees. Our parents — neither with educational opportunities beyond high school — provided commonsense counsel for my brother and me.
President Biden took to the stage this past week to blame inflation on anyone but his own failed policies. Americans don’t buy his diversions, or his embarrassing attempts to attribute responsibility to any host of targets. The president inherited a strong economy that he is singlehandedly destroying, a secure border that he is determined to make more porous, and a thriving energy sector that he is regulating out of business. His Democrat enablers in Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer continue to support this radical administration, even as the American people suffer under their watch. The Biden agenda has harmed every facet of American life, from rising gas prices to baby formula shortages.
GLEN ROSE — The Glen Rose City Council voted unanimously in its meeting last Tuesday night to the hiring of Staci King as the new city secretary. King, who has been the city secretary in Stephenville since July 2017, replaces Stephanie McDonald, who resigned Feb.
My old Uncle Mort is nothing if not analytical, even when he’s not even looking for ways to make easy bucks. He called recently to provide his analysis of members of the Thicket Community Church whose pastor called for a special midweek prayer session appealing for rain. It would be at high noon on the church lawn.