Finally, here's the story I've been waiting to read ever since I heard about the Plano fellows turned away at Dublin's airport. Embarrassed folk in Ireland have stepped up to get their trip back on track -- all expenses paid....
I like chickens okay. My dad, when he was growing up in South Texas, had pet chickens named Pancake and Egg White. One of my favorite characters in American literature is Joann the Wonder Hen, a pivotal figure in the...
We've got a lot of blogs. (Thanks for reading this one.) And we've recently added quite a few more. They are community blogs covering specific suburban cities and areas of Dallas. Check here under "community blogs" to see if your...
OK, Plano is hardly the first place you'd look for gripping, first-person tales of adventure on the high seas. But the third mate on the Maersk-Alabama, the merchant ship attacked by Somali pirates two weeks ago, was Colin Wright, 42,...
This was one of those stories where I had to turn off the news, quick. Accounts about animal mutilations make me feel like I'm fixing to throw up. The report does underscore that sick crimes like this one are very...
OK, so maybe that's a stretch. But says here that our rich neighbor to the north is getting richer, boasting the fastest rate of total income growth among the nation's largest 164 counties last year....
The creepiest thing you'll see in the paper today is this mugshot of an Allen woman, greeting the camera with a winsome smile after she allegedly killed her husband by stabbing him, beating him with a rock, and slashing...
If you've driven around Plano, especially on the eastern edge, you can appreciate why some Plano leaders are recoiling from the wealthiest city tag bestowed upon it by the U.S. Census Bureau. The label distorts the harsh reality of a...
Reporter Jake Batsell sat in on Thursday night's taping of the Austin City Limits TV show featuring singer/songwriter/guitar player Carolyn Wonderland, who will visit Plano's Oak Point Park amphitheater on Saturday night: This bluesy rocker packs some serious punch. For...
Our-man-in-Washington Todd Gillman points out that Jay Leno wasn't too kind to Plano in his Friday night monologue: "President Bush's daughter Jenna [is] getting married this weekend in Crawford, Texas. [It'll] be a relatively small wedding. Only her family's loved...
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