Boyd News

The first time that Jim Bartlett realized something was wrong with his new place in Wise County was when he filled up an Igloo cooler with water from his newly drilled well.

Colton Lyon has taking a liking to the recruiting process so far. The junior linebacker from Boyd, Texas, has started to receive a steady stream of recruiting mail, including letters from the likes of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Notre Dame.

A twin-engine plane crashed in Wise County Tuesday afternoon with at least three people aboard.

His fee will be $1,500. Prince Prado won or placed in 18 of 40 races and earned $247,448. A half-brother to stakes-placed Running Apache, Prince Prado is out of the Hansel mare Hardi Lady, who is a half-sister to graded stakes winners Foresta and Wising Up .

A Wise County woman died Saturday when the motorcycle she was on collided with a deer in Blanco County, officials said.

Irving resident Karyn Hughes never intended to be an author. Even after writing the first draft of a childrena s book, the full-time Cooper Institute of Dallas instructor still never saw herself as an author.

Martha B. Watson Stern, the owner of the Texas kennel where White House dog Bo was bred, has died at 72 .

Top Story Headlines Texas minimum wage increases to $7.25 an hour The minimum wage in Texas is now $7.25 an hour, which is an increase of 70 cents, and kitchen employees at one popular restaurant in El Paso say the increase will help them out.

It's the eve of one of the biggest weekends of American Sprint Car Series racing action thus far in 2009, a weekend in which more than 200 different drivers will compete in at least one of the ten events scheduled at nine different tracks throughout seven states.

INDUSTRIAL: American Realty Capital Trust plans to acquire the 152,640-square-foot FedEx Freight facility in the Satsuma Station Industrial Park from PinPoint Commercial.