As growth and new development comes to Sherman, new leadership will oversee public safety operations for the city. Sherman announced Thursday that current Police Chief Zachary Flores will be stepping away from his position to become the city’s executive director of public safety.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX launched three rich businessmen and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station on Friday for more than a week’s stay, as NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination.
WASHINGTON – A defense attorney conceded on Friday that a former Virginia police officer broke laws when he entered the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot, encouraging a federal jury to convict him of misdemeanor offenses.
NICOSIA, Cyprus – A proposed pipeline to deliver natural gas from deposits in the east Mediterranean to European markets is too expensive, not economically viable and will take too long to help countries seeking alternatives to Russian gas any time soon, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
ADenison park may soon get some major upgrades, complete with new facilities and amenities, under the city’s new parks and trails master plan. City leaders got their first view of the new plan, and its proposed improvements to the Katy practice fiends, Monday when it was officially adopted and incorporated into the city’s existing comprehensive plan. • The new plan for the nearly 20-acre site near Crawford and Flora lane calls for upgrades from its primary use as soccer practice fields with space for baseball into an allinclusive park with multi-use sports fields among other recreational attractions. • Early estimates for the cost of implementing the Katy fields plan range from $10-15 million. • The city’s 2018 update to its comprehensive plan called for the implementation and adoption of an overarching plan for the city’s parks and trails amenities. Last March, the city started efforts to create the document with consulting firm Halff and Associates.
BOSTON – A former Florida prep school administrator who took students’ college entrance exams for bribes was sentenced to four months in prison Friday, the same day a decorated former water polo coach at the University of Southern California was found guilty of fraud and bribery.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy faces plenty of threats: war in Ukraine, high grocery bills, spiking gasoline prices, splintered supply chains, the lingering pandemic and rising interest rates that slow growth.
NEW YORK – CBS News reporter Debora Patta has covered conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, and the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Europe. She has seen violence and death at close range before. But the atrocities she witnessed in Bucha, Ukraine, this week stood out, and overwhelmed her.
WASHINGTON – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s. She’s likely to be on the losing end of a bunch of important cases, including examinations of the role of race in college admissions and voting rights that the high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will take up next term.
TOKYO – Japan announced Friday it is expelling eight Russian diplomats and trade officials and will phase out imports of Russian coal and oil, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida saying Moscow must be held accountable for “war crimes” in Ukraine.