Candace Sweat

Dallas, Fort Worth

Reporter. Believer. Adventurer. Fiction reader. Lone Star State of mind. Wannabe runner and green-thumber. Lucy and Mabel’s great-granddaughter (header photo).

Articles

Mother-son duo graduate with master's degrees from TCU

5 days ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat
DeSoto ISD program helps students land a career right out of high school

5 days ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat
Mother and son receive their master's degrees from TCU on the same day

5 days ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat

This Mother's Day weekend is extra special for one mother and son. After many nights of study sessions, the duo graduated together on Friday. Brandi Fields and her son, 22-year-old Kyle Fields, graduated with their master's degrees Friday. Brandi, from the Executive MBA program in the TCU Neeley School of Business. Kyle, from the TCU AddRan College of Liberal Arts. She told us how she planned to navigate the big day. "He's going to walk first, so I'll get all my emotion out with him.
First students graduate from DeSoto ISD's career and technical program

5 days ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat

DeSoto ISD is doing what it can to help the next generation of workers hit the ground running when they graduate. The district's Career and Technical Education Program puts students on track for careers right after high school, or jobs while they matriculate through college. What happens inside one of DeSoto High School's science labs is important work. It's work that could place a group of young students on a path they'd never considered before now.
'Students are very enthusiastic,' Dallas professor on papal conclave excitement

1 week ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat

This week, the world's eyes are turning to Rome, with live video feeds transmitting from Saint Peter's Square where the papal conclave will begin on Wednesday. The Sacred College of Cardinals will take a vow of secrecy and enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting on the next pope.
University of Dallas students await white smoke and new Pope's name

1 week ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat
Capital murder suspect on the run after cutting ankle monitor

1 week ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat
Oak Cliff church to hold service despite damage done by burglars

1 week ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat
Oak Cliff church to hold service despite damage done by burglars

1 week ago | nbcdfw.com | Candace Sweat

A church in Oak Cliff was ransacked by burglars a day before a planned community service food distribution event. The pastor tells us they will continue meeting the needs of their neighbors and plan to go on with service this Sunday. Pastor Tanyss Winston of the Beckley Community Church stands ready to give a message. She said this coming Sunday will simply sound a bit different.
Amenazan pareja de Texas por su propiedad estar supuestamente vinculada con un c├írtel mexicano

1 week ago | telemundodallas.com | Candace Sweat

Una familia del norte de Texas afirmó haber sido acosada constantemente porque su rancho tiene fuertes similitudes con un sitio en México presuntamente vinculado al cártel. La pareja comentó que han trabajado duro para mantener su estilo de vida, pero que las conversaciones desenfrenadas en redes sociales han sido difíciles de manejar. Perla Villarreal explicó que es bastante simple: lo que se ve en su propiedad es el resultado de un trabajo arduo y honesto.