Texas Sales Tax Holiday is Aug. 5-7

  (AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is reminding shoppers they can save money on clothes and school supplies during the state’s sales tax holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-7. State law exempts sales tax on qualified items — such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks — priced below $100, saving shoppers about

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Texas Ranks 14th in Labor Productivity Among States

With numerous economic experts predicting that the U.S. is headed toward recession, one of the many concerning signals is a sharp decline in labor productivity. After more than a decade of below-average productivity growth, the COVID-19 pandemic raised the prospect of a productivity boom. Many low-productivity jobs were eliminated early in the pandemic, while major

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DNA Doe Project and Gregg County Sheriff’s Office identify Jane Doe from 2002

Woman’s remains discovered off Highway 135 identified as Pamela Darlene Young   Twenty years after her partial skeletal remains were located by construction workers off Highway 135 in Gregg County, Texas, the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office and the DNA Doe Project have determined that her name was Pamela Darlene Young.   Pamela Young of Arlington,

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Important Heat Safety Tips for Families Affected by Dementia

  With a heat wave bringing dangerously high temperatures for tens of millions of Americans, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is providing important tips to help families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related illnesses keep their loved ones safe. “The dangers of extreme temperatures, which can cause heat stroke in a matter of

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Texas Prepaid Tuition Program Newborn Enrollment Deadline Approaches

(AUSTIN) — Texas families have through July 31 to enroll their newborns at 2021-22 prices in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition program. Newborns are children younger than 1 year of age at the time of enrollment. * “It is never too early for Texas families to consider enrolling their newborns

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Texas A&M Forest Service warns large wildfires possible today 

COLLEGE STATION –  Hot and dry conditions across the state of Texas will create high wildfire potential through the weekend. Continued triple digit temperatures and dry conditions will reduce the moisture in vegetation across the landscape, increasing the possibility for wildfire ignitions to occur this week. Today, the fire environment will support an increased potential

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UPSHUR COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER

On July 7, 2022, defendant, NichJous Cole Williams, 21, pied guilty to the murders  of Leonard Faris Gibson, the grandfather of the defendant and Denene Susanne Mosely. On February 7, 2021 in Upshur County, Texas, Mr. Williams was arrested and charged with Murder. Mr. Williams will serve each life sentence concurrently. The defendant had been

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MAGIC OF MARDI GRAS

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