Lucas News

Collin County authorities are asking for the public's help to find an exotic animal that escaped from the St.

An exotic animal is on the loose in the St. Paul/Lucas area of Collin County. It's a medium-sized African wild cat that looks a bit like a small cheetah with large ears.

It's Friday the 13th. If you let superstition, or scary-movie watching, keep you behind locked doors, you'll miss a considerable amount of excellent music.

SANDRA FAY Items may be phoned or faxed to Sandra Fay at 972-422-5834 or e-mailed to dsfay@aol.com. Junior League of Plano will host its fifth annual and getting-to-be-infamous Ladies Night Out from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday during its venerable 'Neath the Wreath holiday gift market at Plano Center.

Lucas, Texas resident Mark H. Barratt has completed the project of a lifetime, a five-book series called The Guardian of Heaven that began as a mere idea when he was a teenager.

A standing-room-only crowd jammed Wylie City Hall Wednesday, Oct. 7, to protest a bridge that would span Lake Lavon, connecting the eastern shores of the lake with the western side.

Michael Cote wasn't supposed to focused on romance during basic training. But he and the woman who would eventually become his wife, Ashlee - a fellow soldier - found a way around that policy.

Joe Simmons traded the congestion of Plano for the tranquillity of Lavon Lake a year ago.

Have you heard the buzz about Second Saturday Nature Programs at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.

Physicist Stephen Hawking is stepping down as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

American servicemen and servicewomen killed September 12 to 20: -- Senior Airman Matthew R. Courtois, 22, of Lucas, Texas -- Spc.

TOPICS ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of scientist Dr.

The Defense Department confirms the deaths of two Texans in Kuwait & Afghanistan.

BULBS: The Collin County Master Gardeners Association is selling spring-blooming bulbs, including tulips, narcissi, irises and Spanish bluebells.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,336 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 830 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A Friend of Unfair Park forwards grim news concerning a local soldier killed while on deployment: The Department of Defense reports today that 22-year-old Matthew Courtois, a senior airman from Lucas in Collin County, died yesterday at the Abdullah Al Mubarak Airbase in Kuwait.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Air horns: Love 'em or hate 'em? UPDATE: The Lucas City Council voted to study the matter of air horns further.

Since its founding in 2004, the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center hasn't been a center at all.

Judy and Jerry Gallagher of Lucas are spending this week touring Washington, D.C., and introducing their grandchildren the nation's capital city.