Mesquite News

Mesquite Championship Rodeo offers free admission to active members of the military and their families at first-ever Thanksgiving rodeo Nov.

Now that the lights are in place, the $2 million Peachtree Towne Center bridge is all the more striking as it straddles South Mesquite Creek.

Pets can get their photos taken with Santa at Hotel Palomar, 5300 E. Mockingbird Lane, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturdays through Dec.

Some area school districts have taken advantage of two federal stimulus programs giving them a break in the bond market, saving millions over the next couple of decades.

Special Agent In Charge Robert E. Casey Jr., Dallas FBI, is seeking the public's help in locating Samuel Johns Dickey, age 43, whose last known address was in Richland Hills.

Mesquite police hope you can help catch a convenience store holdup man. A surveillance camera captured the chilling images of what happened at the store on Oates Drive late Wednesday night as the man pulled out a semi-automatic handgun, threatened a clerk, and grabbed cash from the register.

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.