The Sherman ISD Board of Trustees recognized the 2021-2022 Staff of the Year for their service to the district at the May board meeting Monday, May 16. Kacy Hawkins, a kindergarten teacher at Fairview Elementary, was the Elementary Teacher of the Year.
Austin College’s Commencement ceremony was broadcast live via streaming video and on Facebook on Saturday morning. Austin College students, faculty, staff, family and friends gathered Saturday for the Class of 2022 Commencement celebration as nears 325 Bachelor of Arts degree candidates and 15 Master of Arts in Teaching degree candidates.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Thursday blasted one of his party’s top leaders back home, calling the mounting pile of accusations and legal woes Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an “embarrassment” just days before a primary runoff election.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill prohibiting all abortions with few exceptions, and providers said they would stop performing the procedure as soon as the governor signs it in the latest example of the GOP’s national push to restrict access to what has been a constitutional right for nearly a half century.
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.
Sherman Independent School District recently got the go ahead to begin work on additional parking at its new high school. The request went before both the SISD School Board and Sherman Planning and Zoning Commission this week and was approved by both groups.
Nineteen individuals have been named in a federal indictment charging them with violations in the Eastern District of Texas. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on May 12, 2022, charges the defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Workers busily prepare cookies for the grand opening of Crumbl Cookies Friday morning in Sherman. Michael Hutchins / Herald Democrat .
A Denison couple were recently arrested on charges of continual sexual abuse of a child. A news release from the Denison Police Department said the couple were arrested Wednesday afternoon and are currently being held in the Grayson County Jail on $100,000 bonds.
A Mexican national has been extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.