On Wednesday, Congressman Jake Ellzey (TX-06), whose district includes Ellis County, joined 28 of his colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concerns with provisions in the president's fiscal year 2023 budget that threaten the stepped-up tax basis and impose 'marked-to-market' capital gains taxes on property such as farmland that has been held in families for 90 years or more.
WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Marine was killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, his relatives told news outlets in what’s the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine.
DES MOINES, Iowa – Russia’s brutal war raging against Ukraine swept several members of Des Moines’ Plymouth Church back in time to the early 1990s and a life-changing connection to a Kyiv choir.
PORT GIBSON, Miss. – A loud boom prefaced a streaking fireball spotted in three southern states, scientists confirmed Thursday.
I have a picture of baseball great Mickey Mantle. It had been my brother’s, but he died at age 14. After my parents passed away, the picture came into my possession. Mickey Mantle pictures are a dime a dozen, but this one was valued at hundreds of dollars many years ago. The reason? Mickey wrote a note on the picture, signed it, and had it sent to my brother.
ND Supreme Court: Dakota Access Pipeline documents are public BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled thousands of documents related to security during the construction of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline are public and subject to the state’s open records law.
WASHINGTON – The nation’s first Black Secret Service agent on a presidential detail, now 86 years old living in Chicago, who has worked decades to clear his name for a crime he has said he didn’t commit.
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has likely entered a new wave of CO- VID-19 earlier than expected as new infections and hospitalizations have risen rapidly over the past two weeks, the country’s health minister said Friday.
Ellis County and District Attorney Ann Montgomery announced that Guy Wayne Lynch, 52, of Aubrey, was convicted of murder by a jury and sentenced to 75 years in prison in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis gave a new mandate to his sex abuse advisory commission Friday, telling its members to work with bishops around the world to establish special welcome centers for victims and to audit the church’s progress on fighting abuse from its new perch within the Vatican.