Mesquite News

A Mesquite, Texas, man who crashed his car in Pendleton while he was smoking marijuana, killing his wife, pleaded guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in Niagara County Court.

While the Mesquite district does not allow so-called "skinny pants," many districts do.

Move over, baggy pants. Saggy pants? Old news. "Skinny pants" are the newest rage, and at least one area school district is aiming to keep them off school campuses.

Starting Jan. 4, city of Mesquite recreation centers will no longer provide latchkey child care at $10 per year.

Teachers seek donations for educational programs Donorschoose.org, a nonprofit Web site where public school teachers can describe specific educational projects and donors can choose which projects to support, is offering projects from local schools, according to a press release.

A baby miniature donkey that was stolen has been reunited with his family. Ed and Angela Preston said Sunny disappeared after someone stole their truck and trailer a couple weeks ago from a parking lot near Town East Mall in Mesquite.

A Mesquite man is custody for allegedly killing his wife while her two children were home.

It's easy to get lost in the news sometimes. Everything moves so fast...people come in and out of your life...their stories points on a long timeline.

The Clark High School Band Boosters will present their Fall Fiesta Dinner at 5 p.m. Saturday at Clark High School, 523 W. Spring Creek Parkway.

Disappointed but proud nonetheless, the Poteet High School Pirate Band returned to Mesquite on Wednesday afternoon.

Ray Leszcynski covers the city of Mesquite and Karel Holloway covers Mesquite schools.

The Poteet High School band members sat on the parking lot's cold concrete and closed their eyes.

A miniature donkey was stolen from a Sunnyvale couple when thieves made off with their pickup truck and trailer in a Mesquite parking lot Tuesday.

Tuesday was the deadline for the return of 256 rabbits, horses, sheep and other livestock seized by the SPCA of Texas in an Oct.

A day after federal agents and police across the country seized 729 pounds of methamphetamine in the largest crackdown ever on a Mexican drug cartel, local agents made a big find: 300 more pounds of meth in a house in Mesquite.

The Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas fair housing agency, filed court documents against the town of Sunnyvale on Monday, citing a failure to live up to a 2005 agreement and discriminatory practices the plaintiffs say date to the town's incorporation.

Military honors: Oct. 20-25 Basic training Army Reserve Pvt. Micah T. Johnson has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

It may not be the largest barometer of Texas politics, but the political winds have been easy to measure in House District 101.

Federal prosecutors have filed drug charges against eight Mexican nationals for plotting to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine in the Tulsa area.

Location: Eastern Dallas County including all of Balch Springs, all of Sunnyvale, and Mesquite except for the farthest northwest and western parts of the city and parts of the city in Kaufman County 2008 presidential vote in District 101: 50.2 percent Barack Obama ; 48.9 percent John McCain 2008 vote for District 101: 50.6 percent Robert Miklos ; ...