Jerry Hollingsworth stood before a room full of attendees Thursday at the annual Mayor’s Coffee event inside the Waxahachie Civic Center and described his passion for Waxahachie High School. “I have green socks, I have green lip balm and we have green on just about half the chairs in our whole school district,” the Waxahachie ISD superintendent said.
Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, a study prepared immediately after the storm shows. Thursday’s research, which is not peer-reviewed, compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm to about 20 different computer scenarios of a model with Hurricane Ian’s characteristics slamming into the Sunshine State in a world with no human-caused climate change.
(NAPSI)—You may never have thought about it much, but your liver is essential to your life. It’s the largest solid internal organ and performs so many vital functions, including filtering toxins from your blood, producing bile so you can digest fat, storing sugar for energy, and more.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews waded through flooded streets and used boats Thursday in a scramble to save people trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida and brought torrential rains that inundated more communities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its allies hit back at Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday, slapping sanctions on more than 1,000 people and companies including arms supply networks, as Moscow and the West escalated an already heated conflict fraught with potential nuclear implications.
State Rep. Brian Harrison recently welcomed President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services to House District 10.
The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) has announced it is accepting entries for the 2023 Texas division of Wildlife Forever’s Fish Art Contest through Feb. 28.
More than 730 Baylor University graduates received their degrees during summer commencement ceremonies. Among those were: Waxahachie’s Stephanie Otero, Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing, Hankamer School of Business; Glenn Heights’ Tyteana Stevenson, Master of Social Work, Social Work, DianaR.GarlandSchoolof Social Work; Midlothian’s Brooke Austin, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Nursing, Louise Herrington School of Nursing; and Midlothian’s Kimberley O’Donnell, Doctor of Education, Learning and Organizational Change, Graduate School.
The Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine’s plan for supporting veterinary antimicrobial stewardship will be fully implemented in 2023 when all remaining over-the-counter antibiotics are switched to prescription-only status. The medically important antibiotics (used by humans and animals) becoming prescription- only include injectable tylosin, injectable and intramammary penicillin, injectable and oral tetracycline, sulfadimethoxine and sulfamethazine, and cephapirin and cephapirin benzathine intramammary tubes.
February 2021’s winter storm Uri marked a severe weather event unlike any most Texans have ever faced, leaving millions without power in freezing conditions. As outages persisted, pipes froze, and millions faced water disruptions due to water main breaks, mechanical failures, and frozen or broken water lines. Many were without water for multiple days in various water utility service areas across the state, Texas Water Utilities included.