Lancaster News

Shortly before Superintendent Mike Miles stole the show at last week's board briefing with his ambitious "Destination 2020" action plan, the district's Citizens Budget Review Commission presented an interesting report.

Otilio Osorio, of Lancaster, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay on Monday to seven years in prison.

To honor this Good Samaritan, the TCA has bestowed Highway Angel status upon the late Raul C. Perez, Jr., who drove for Aquatic Trucking Co., of Lancaster, Texas.

It is an all-too-familiar story in this country: in Dallas, two men who spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for a rape they didn't commit were formally exonerated Monday after DNA testing implicated two other men.

As those of us who live in the South know all too well, we are now well into the tornado season.