HELP WITH AA: ANIMAL ASSISTANCE
Sat, 09/11/2021 - 12:00am
Two Mexia-based animal rescue groups have several projects they are working on they want to share with animal lovers.
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Local veteran helps 8 get out of Aghanistan
Sat, 09/11/2021 - 12:00am
An Army veteran of Afghanistan now living in Mexia, and his contacts, jumped through hoops to get three interpreter families out of Afghanistan when it fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15.
The first ‘Miss America’ from Texas came in 1942
Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:00am
An 18-year-old brunette from Tyler waited anxiously with nine other finalists for the winner of the “Miss America” beauty pageant to be announced on Sep. 12, 1942.
At least 45 districts shut down in-person classes due to COVID-19 cases, affecting more than 40,000 students
Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:00am
At least 45 small school districts across Texas have been forced to temporarily stop offering in-person classes as a result of COVID-19 cases in the first few weeks of the new school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.
Federal civil rights complaint filed over UT-Austin’s ‘Eyes of Texas’
Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:00am
The Texas chapter of the NAACP, along with the civil rights organization’s University of Texas at Austin chapter and a group of anonymous students, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights alleging UT-Austin is creating a “hostile environment” for Black students by continuing to play the “The Eyes of Texas” alma mater song at university events.
