Rick St. Nick
Men, when it comes to Valentine's Day, we either get it perfect, or we screw it up beyond repair. With a handful of days left, there is still time to make it right with the "Greatest Valentine's Day Gift - ever".
With liquor sales always a hot topic due to a consistent revenue stream for the state, for those looking to purchase "the hard stuff", a Sunday visit to your favorite establishment may be looming in the near future.
Imagine getting on a cruise ship in Galveston, Texas, and then getting no farther than Mobile, Alabama one week later.
That was certainly not the scheduled itinerary aboard "The Carnival Triumph", but a fire in the engine room on Sunday morning squashed the plans of over 3,000 sea goers.
58 year old Randolph Arledge is going to receive about two million dollars from Texas, and he didn't win the money in the lottery.
In what appears to be a scene taken from "The Shawshank Redemption", Arledge, just like his predecessor Andy Dufresne (pronounced DO-frain), exits from prison, and reaps a monetary windfall, after spending a great deal of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.
It could be that because Texas is so large in area, that the state would have three entries in one of the worst contests in America.
If your "to-do" list today (Wednesday, February 6) features wash truck, you may want to cancel that appointment, because the National Weather Service has issued a rain event until approximately 2 a.m. tomorrow morning (Thursday, February 7).
The speed limit on Highway 7, for 27 miles of a 31 mile stretch between Nacogdoches and Center, is 70 miles per hour, and if the school zone speed limit of 35 isn't flashing yellow caution lights, you may likely buzz right through Martinsville.
Not much to see really. You've got the post office, diner, and school on the main drag. Beyond that, plenty of cows and horses grazing for miles.
Without checking the Internet, do you happen to remember who was selected as the second overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft?
How about a few hints - disaster, drugs and jail? Definitely a "Jeopardy" question, huh?
Every now and then, I try and find a "breaking" video associated with our current affairs, and with gun control one of the hottest topics on the planet today, especially here in "The Lone Star State", the debate rages on whether or not, to revise Constitutional Amendments concerning this matter.
The Clinical Trials network of Texas (CTNeT) got a grant worth $25 million in 2010, but it ran out of cash last month, and now the one time facility responsible for delving deeper into the crusade against Cancer, has folded.
This one may get your blood boiling, since you can see, first hand, the impact of accidents associated with "texting while driving".
My drive to work is barely noticeable at 3.2 miles, yet three stop lights make it advantageous for me to peruse my fellow commuters.