-
1 day ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
TEXAS — Two years after a bill addressing veterans’ health care was introduced in Congress, some service members hope that this year the legislation will reach President Donald Trump’s desk. It’s called the Veterans Health Care Freedom Act, and it was introduced to the U.S. House in 2023 by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. This year, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also introduced the bill, and last month, hearings were held by the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
-
4 days ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
DALLAS — From being featured in Forbes to receiving the Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business Award, it has been quite the year for Dallas baker Addison LaBonte, founder and CEO of Sweet Addison’s. It’s a dessert business she launched in Dallas last year, catering to a new health journey she unexpectedly found herself on. Her doctor diagnosed her with compartment syndrome, giving the avid runner two options for relief: lace up her sneakers for the last time or get surgery.
-
5 days ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
FORT WORTH, Texas — More moms in America are saying their mental health is in worse shape than some did nearly a decade ago. What You Need To KnowData from the National Survey of Children’s Health showed in 2016, 1 in 20 mothers reported their mental health was poor or fair.
-
1 week ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
SEAGOVILLE, Texas — Inadequate storage facilities have long put vital military medical supplies at risk for some Texas service members. Just last year, the Army Reserve Center in Seagoville was a warehouse completely filled with cages, but not anymore. It’s a new, up-and-running biomed shop, and it’s the first of its kind in the state of Texas and the U.S.Army Staff Sgt.
-
1 week ago | 
baynews9.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
DALLAS — It’s launch day for the ninth unmanned test flight for SpaceX’s Starship. While all eyes will be glued on Boca Chica Beach on Tuesday, two Texas museums have been getting future space explorers excited about the universe. In 2012, when the Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened, the Expanding Universe exhibit wasn’t included, and neither was the museum’s Digital Hall.
-
2 weeks ago | 
kipp.org | Blessing Iwuchukwu
DALLAS — As the school year wraps up this week for many North Texas school districts, one Dallas campus is celebrating a major musical milestone. Learning how to play an instrument can be a challenge at any age, but one group of Kipp Truth Academy students is bringing a new beat to their school for the first time. It has been a year of adjusting for Ka’ron Hollinger and his bandmates.
-
1 month ago | 
spectrumnews1.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
FRISCO, Texas — Some of country music’s best and brightest are two-stepping their way to North Texas this week. Frisco, a city north of Dallas, is once again hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards this Thursday, and two North Texans are being honored during this year's festivities. Fort Worth’s very own Opal Lee, who is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, was honored by the ACM for her social justice work at the second annual “I’m Just Me: A Charley Pride Celebration of Inclusion” brunch.
-
1 month ago | 
spectrumnews1.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
FRISCO, Texas — Some of country music’s best and brightest are two-stepping their way to North Texas this week. Frisco, a city north of Dallas, is once again hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards this Thursday, and two North Texans are being honored during this year's festivities. Fort Worth’s very own Opal Lee, who is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, was honored by the ACM for her social justice work at the second annual “I’m Just Me: A Charley Pride Celebration of Inclusion” brunch.
-
1 month ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
TEXAS — In 2023, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law the largest property tax cut in Texas history. That $18 billion property tax cut package pales in comparison to what some Texas lawmakers hope to achieve this legislative session. Lawmakers have proposed a nearly $51 billion property tax cut this year. At the same time, Texas property owners are now receiving a notice of appraised value, which lets them know how much their property has increased or decreased in value for tax purposes.
-
1 month ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Blessing Iwuchukwu
DALLAS — Chicago may have been the birthplace of gospel music nearly a century ago, but the Lone Star State is the home of the largest digital archive of Black gospel music and preaching in the world.
