Turtle Creek Chorale (TCC), Dallas’ award-winning men’s chorus continues its 34th season with two fantastic holiday concerts — DecemberSong on December 12, 13 and 22 at the Dallas City Performance Hall (2520 Flora Street, Dallas) and December 14 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center (111 N. Tennessee, McKinney) and Naughty & Nice II: A Very Turtle Christmas – Liza’s Wish List, December 19-21 at Dallas City Performance Hall.

On December 5, 2013 at 7:15 p.m., the McKinney Police Department responded to a robbery at the 777 Game Room located at 803 N. McDonald St. During the robbery, the suspect pointed a black handgun at the store manager. The McKinney Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in solving this robbery and other recent robberies that occurred in the same general area. We are investigating three other robberies that involve similar suspect descriptions. The suspect is described in all three of these cases as a light-skinned black or Hispanic male, 6 ft., 150- 180 lbs., wearing a ski mask and dark clothing. The suspect carried or displayed a small black handgun during each robbery.

Automatic watering of lawns drops to twice monthly

With Thanksgiving behind us and the rest of the holiday season coming up quickly, we often forget how hard this time of year is for those who are facing it without someone. The holiday season will be vastly different for anyone who has lost a loved one, and it can be a time when they most need to find hope, peace, and joy. The Hope Center, an outreach program of Home Hospice of Grayson, Cooke, & Fannin Counties, is offering a workshop called Hope for the Holidays designed to provide specific ideas and tools for managing grief during the holiday season.

Though mostly known as a mythical animal featured in teenage pranks, snipes do exist — really.

1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. From the standpoint of the defenders, the attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. All but one were later raised, and six of the eight battleships returned to service and fought in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded.