Where to travel before Summer crowds hit By Carrie Dunlea May sits in a sweet spot on the travel calendar — that fleeting window when spring is still in full bloom, temperatures are comfortable across much of the country and summer crowds haven’t yet arrived in force....
Voters across Texas are heading to the polls to cast their ballots for races in the 2022 election. On the ballot are federal, state, county and city officials including the governor, county judge and state representative races. Some cities will also vote on...
A detention officer at the Collin County jail discovered a cell phone and charger in an inmate’s cell Monday, Oct. 10, according to an Oct. 11 news release from the Collin County Sheriff’s Office. Tyler Moody, a detention officer at the jail since 2019, was arrested...
The final day to register to vote in the November election is Tuesday, Oct. 11. In the upcoming election, voters will cast their ballots in state, county and federal elections. In Texas, Eligible voters must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of the county where the...
Officers from the Murphy Police Department were dispatched around 9:10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in response to a panic alarm from the Verizon store located at 218 E. FM 544. Upon arriving at the scene, officers determined that the store and its employees were robbed at...
Residents interested in meeting the city’s firefighter/paramedics, along with the command staff of Murphy Fire Rescue, can do so at the Fire Station Open House. The event, planned for Saturday, Oct. 15, starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. at the station located...
Multiple fire departments that serve Collin County communities responded to a fire on the 7300 block of CR 965 in Nevada. Among those responding departments were Wylie, Princeton and Farmersville. Fire departments from Rockwall, Josephine and Merit also responded to...
An elderly woman who lives in the 200 block of Starlite Dr. in Murphy was tied up and her home was burglarized by two men according to the Murphy Police Department. At 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept 28, police were dispatched to the residence after a neighbor called about...
A Sachse resident, Josiah Perez, 25, has been arraigned on two charges of attempted capital murder for his role in a shooting of two Sachse police officers Sept. 2, according to information released by the Sachse Police Department earlier this week. Perez was...
