A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction. The group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum change requests.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
North Texans will soon be able to watch a movie shot on Lake Texoma by a Sherman High graduate. Sherman High School Class of 2000 graduate Mark Scheibmeir and some friends shot the full-length horror film on lake Texoma in 2021.
Denison High School continues to rank among the best high schools in the nation, this time for the 17th year in a row, according to the highly respected U.S. News and World Report’s recently released data on the quality of education in America’s high schools.
As Grayson County continues plans that are more than two years in motion to expand the county jail, several downtown business owners and others recently began making their opinions in opposition of the project known. After first speaking up at the Tuesday meeting of the county commissioners, that same group met with Grayson County Sheriff Tom Watt on Wednesday to get more information about the project.
Nothing says Independence Day like a great fireworks display, and there are plenty of local professional displays for people to enjoy over the Fourth of July weekend. However, some folks like to shoot off their own fireworks, and Grayson County Fire Marshal John Weda says the key to keeping things fun is to start off with safety in mind.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state of Texas can be sued under military anti-discrimination law, siding with a former state trooper who said Texas violated federal law when it did not give him a new job upon his return from military service.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will add new checkpoints for trucks entering the state from Mexico after after over 50 migrants died in connection with an abandoned tractor-trailer found in San Antonio.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted, handing more power to state legislatures and blocking state courts from reviewing challenges to the procedures and results.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration has the right to end a Trumpera immigration policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases make their way through U.S. immigration courts.