iHeartMedia & Ben & Skin Show from 97.1FM The Freak Join Cars for Kids to Drive Change in Dallas

Wylie BubbleLife iReporter 9/25 4:06A CarsforKids

Cars for Kids Charity is proud to announce a remarkable partnership with iHeartMedia and the Ben & Skin Show from 97.1FM The Freak. This collaboration has resulted in a heartwarming vehicle donation...

Pirates jump on N. Garland early

Wylie News | Latest 9/23 6:12A Staff Reports

Wylie Pirates (3-1, 2-0 District 9-6A) return from the bye week to win their first road game of the season against the North Garland Raiders (1-4, 1-2). The final score was 35-25 at Williams Stadium in Garland. The Pirates finished with 355 total...

Raiders struggle against Sachse defense

Wylie News | Latest 9/23 6:03A Staff Reports

Sachse’s defense was suffocating all night in the Mustangs’ 20-7 district victory over the Wylie East Raiders on Friday night from Wylie ISD Stadium. The Mustangs (3-2, 3-0 District 9-6A) held the Raiders (3-1, 1-1) off the board until the third...

Texas schools received 77,000 threats last year. Some schools lack the resources to respond.

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 9/21 7:48A Brian New

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - Texas schools received more than 77,000 threats last year, according to data collected by the Texas Education Agency (T.E.A.). That's a threat for every minute Texas students were in class. Some threats turned out to...

Artemio Yanez sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing man 63 times in Plano parking lot

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 9/20 2:25P Raegan Scharfetter

PLANO (CBSNewsTexas.com) A 56-year-old Plano man has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal, fatal stabbing of Emilio Romero over two years ago. At 6 p.m. June 8, 2021, Plano police responded to a stabbing call in a parking lot in East...

Council honors longtime WEDC member

Wylie News | Latest 9/20 5:07A Staff Reports

Mayor Matthew Porter and Linda Ferguson honor Constitution Week at council on Tuesday, Sept. 12. Jeremy Hallock/Wylie News A decades-long Wylie resident who played a key role in the city’s expansion and growth was honored at the council meeting...

New ammo for fentanyl battle

Wylie News | Latest 9/20 4:21A Debra Engstrom

Authorities say counterfeit fentanyl is often disguised in an assortment of rainbow colors resembling candy. Courtesy DEA Fentanyl poisoning continues to claim a growing percentage of drug deaths in the state, according to the Texas Health Data...

Dry times ahead as drought worsens

Wylie News | Latest 9/20 4:07A Staff Reports

Drought, generally defined as an absence of water caused by insufficient precipitation over a period of time, is as old as the Bible. “Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me,” said Jacob as he described his hardships as a shepherd (King...

Retired School Employees rally for Proposition 9

Wylie News | Latest 9/20 3:21A Staff Reports

Wylie RSE members Tami Nauyokas and Charlotte Tassan with Dodd Elementary students for the Echo Program. Photo by Sherry Sumerlin For the first time in almost 20 years, retired public school employees will have a chance to receive a...

Take the fall

Wylie News | Latest 9/20 3:07A Staff Reports

One of my most vivid memories of fall happened during junior high. I was standing in the end zone prior to the start of a game. I could barely feel my fingers and toes. It was October, but it was unusually cold (Al Gore had yet to invent global...

‘This was jailhouse justice': Victims families react to death of convicted killer Billy Chemirmir

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 9/19 1:22P Katy Blakey and Allie Spillyards

Convicted killer Billy Chemirmir was found dead in his Texas prison cell Tuesday morning . For families of his alleged 22 victims, the news brought complex emotions. “My first response was shock,...

H-E-B announces new stores in Prosper, Melissa, Rockwall

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 9/19 10:03A NBCDFW Staff

H-E-B says they ll start construction on three new North Texas locations next year in Prosper, Melissa and Rockwall. The San-Antonio-based grocer said the store in Melissa will be located at the northeast corner of US Highway 75 and Texas Highway...

H-E-B's Allen store will open early next month

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 9/19 9:53A NBCDFW Staff

H-E-B says they ll open their new store in Allen next month on Oct. 4, their third location in Collin County. With stores located on the fringe of the Metroplex for years, until recently the Texas-based grocer has been slow to move into the big...

Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir killed in prison, officials say

CBS Dallas-Ft. Worth News 9/19 4:34A CBS Texas Staff

DALLAS COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas.com) Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir was killed in prison this morning, a spokesperson for the Dallas County District Attorney's Office told CBS News Texas's Andrea Lucia. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice...

Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir killed by cellmate in Texas prison: TDCJ

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 9/19 4:26A Katy Blakey and Frank Heinz

Billy Chemirmir, a man convicted of killing two people and accused in the deaths of nearly two dozen others, was found dead in his cell in a Texas state prison early Tuesday morning, NBC 5 has...