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About 4.2 million Texans picked a Marketplace plan for 2026. For 2027, two insurers are leaving, proposed rates are up and the deadlines matter. Here is what to check before you renew.
On Christmas Eve 1854, Silesian families gave thanks under a live oak in Karnes County. Their church still stands beside it, and it is open every day.
Many Protestants mark Reformation Day on Oct. 31, the traditional date Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg in 1517.
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Tom Cruise will receive the 52nd AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 24, 2027.
A public hearing at 4 p.m. today comes before the vote. The board also gets its turn to shape the city's first new public art plan since 2016, a plan that drew 510 survey responses.
Christina Applegate told her MeSsy podcast listeners she was misdiagnosed with MS. Her symptoms have not improved, and doctors will investigate the cause.
Ann Hornaday, the Washington Post's longtime chief film critic and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Sunday of glioblastoma. She was 66.
Richard Riehle, the character actor best known as Tom Smykowski in "Office Space," died of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 78.
The state climatologist says this El Niño is almost as strong as one can get, pointing to rain from now through February. Early October storms helped, but an AgriLife specialist says the moisture is mostly on the surface.
The Texas Fish Art Contest is open to K-12 students through Feb. 28. Here is how to enter, what the rules require, and why the 2027 focus species is a fish most Texans have never seen.
Delaware's highest monumented point sits beside a North Wilmington road, while nearby ground may be higher and a 1940s relay tower tells another story.
Delaware's only Revolutionary War land battle unfolded near Newark at Cooch's Bridge, where a historic site is being restored for a 2027 opening.
Castroville, Texas (ZIP 78009) was founded in September 1844 by Henri Castro’s Alsatian colonists on a bend of the Medina River. The town refused to pay for the railroad and lost the Medina County seat to Hondo in 1892.
Two days before the Battle of Brandywine, British forces under Howe and Cornwallis occupied the farms and roads around Hockessin. The location of Howe's headquarters then vanished from local memory for nearly 240 years — until a former DuPont chemist rebuilt the map.
Thursday's agenda also formally renames U.S. 377 as Ray Roberts Parkway, offers Krugerville library cards for $4,000 and brings back the Haunted Harvest Parade.
The 1958-born festival wraps up Oct. 22-25 with Trades Days, an antique car parade, a pet show, a beard contest, a hot pepper showdown and a Piney Woods drive.
Thursday's second reading locks in a $0.342649 rate, the most the city can adopt without an election. Kermit's legislative wish list also opposes lowering that limit.
Tom Cruise will receive the 52nd AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 24, 2027.
Families in Kerr County, Uvalde and across the Hill Country will not get FEMA individual assistance for July 2026 flood damage. The state is reviewing an appeal as Washington tells states to carry more of the load.
Four propositions would replace five aging campuses and add indoor facilities that voters rejected in 2023. The district projects a 12.5-cent increase in its debt tax rate if all pass.
Russia freed Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired Michigan teacher jailed for over four years, as Trump envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin.
The state climatologist says this El Niño is almost as strong as one can get, pointing to rain from now through February. Early October storms helped, but an AgriLife specialist says the moisture is mostly on the surface.
A public hearing at 4 p.m. today comes before the vote. The board also gets its turn to shape the city's first new public art plan since 2016, a plan that drew 510 survey responses.
Messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention meet Oct. 26-27 in Forney. On the agenda: constitutional amendments that would make the pastor's office, title and preaching to the gathered church a men-only role for affiliated churches.
More than 1,200 clergy and lay volunteers will serve as poll chaplains outside polling places in nine states, including Texas, on Election Day.
