Nine men and a company have been charged with conspiring to install so-called "defeat devices" on diesel trucks, thereby allowing the vehicles to emit far more pollutants than allowed by law, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

ACM Country kickoff features free fan festival with live music, food trucks, a beer garden, exclusive merch, and more at The Star in days leading up to the ACM Awards! The tentpole philanthropic event of the week, which is set to take place at Topgolf The Colony on Wednesday, May 15, and feature 59th ACM Award-nominated artists Old Dominion, Jordan Davis, Ashley Cooke, and Kameron Marlowe taking the stage to perform live alongside Parker McCollum.

"I would like to thank the public for their trust in me for the past 13 years," Fannin County Clerk Tammy Biggar said before announcing that she will join the Secretary of State Elections Division and has submitted her two weeks notice. May 29 will be Ms. Biggar's final day as county clerk. The commissioners court is tasked with finding a temporary replacement for May 30 through the November 5 election. "I will work to make the transition as smooth as possible," Biggars told the court.

It's almost time for our fourth annual Memorial Day ceremony, Horses Honoring Heroes, set for Monday, May 27, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m., at Myers Park & Event Center in McKinney.

The temporary overnight closures will begin at 7 p.m. on the following dates, and the roadway will reopen to regular traffic flow by 6 a.m. the following day. These temporary closures will allow work crews to place new bridge-deck forms at this intersection, officials said. The overnight closures will occur May 15, 16 and 17.

1988 – Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters. While the mujahideen were backed by various countries and organizations, the majority of their support came from Pakistan, the United States (as part of Operation Cyclone), the United Kingdom, China, Iran, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The involvement of the foreign powers made the war a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Combat took place throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The war resulted in the deaths of approximately 3,000,000 Afghans, while millions more fled from the country as refugees; most externally displaced Afghans sought refuge in Pakistan and in Iran. Approximately 6.5% to 11.5% of Afghanistan's erstwhile population of 13.5 million people (per the 1979 census) is estimated to have been killed over the course of the conflict. The Soviet–Afghan War caused grave destruction throughout Afghanistan and has also been cited by scholars as a significant factor that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formally ending the Cold War.