Local church news in brief Aug. 12-19
God’s House of Faith & Worship Center will host a Women’s Conference Aug. 19-20.
August 2022
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Couple’s pandemic romance stumbles into rocky patch
Dear Abby: My boyfriend, “Kirk,” and I have been dating exclusively for nearly two years and live together. We met during the pandemic, so for the first year or so, we mostly hung out -- just the two of us.
HOROSCOPES
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hiatal hernia is not correlated to asthma medication
Dear Dr. Roach: I am 80 years old, still work fulltime and have generally good health, except for adult-onset asthma. Advair 250/50 was prescribed for me over 10 years ago, and I’ve been taking it regularly each morning,
Man convicted of fatally shooting his 2 daughters in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after the fatal shootings of his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in the killings that prosecutors said were driven by his obsessive desire for control.
A Granbury mom’s campaign to ban library books divided her town — and her family
This article was produced by the Texas Tribune in partnership with NBC News. Weston Brown was scrolling through Twitter last month when he came across a video that made his chest tighten.
EPA launches investigation into Texas environment agency’s permitting process for concrete batch plants
By William Melhado, The Texas Tribune The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the subject of an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency following complaints that the state agency violated civil rights laws in its permitting of concrete batch plants. The Harris County Attorney and Lone Star Legal Aid, a nonprofit law group, alleged that the state environmental agency discriminated against racial and ethnic minorities and those with limited English proficiency through a revised permitting process to build new concrete batch plants.
Phone bills are about to go up for some in Texas. Here’s why.
By Cecilia Lenzen, The Texas Tribune Some Texans can expect their phone bills to go up starting this month after the Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted a rate hike in July. The commission, which regulates the state’s electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities, voted to increase the Texas Universal Service Fund surcharge, which telecommunication companies are required to pay to help maintain and operate cellphone services in rural parts of the state.
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
President David Gilbert called the Lake Texoma Chapter 1290 of National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) to order at First United Bank in Sherman on August 4, 2022. Service Officer Bruce Hottel gave the invocation and the group recited the Pledge of Allegiance.