Princeton News

The Texas economy threw off mixed signals in October, with expanding payrolls but a rising unemployment rate.

A head-on collision Friday morning south of Lavon Lake killed three people and left a 4-year-old girl, among others, injured.

The Dallas County health department received 22,900 doses of swine flu vaccine Friday and plans to distribute them all before Thanksgiving.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease," such as pneumonia.

Kroger is holding the first in a series of job fairs Friday to hire workers for its new Marketplace concept store in Frisco.

Texas employers expanded payrolls by 41,700 jobs in October, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday - a significant piece of good economic news after a year of nearly uninterrupted monthly job losses.

Here are a few things bargain-hungry consumers need to know before they hit stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving.

Early Nov. 11 at Godwin Elementary, Boy Scouts and small waving flags waited on the lawn.

Nov. 15 was Texas Recycles Day, a campaign that "aims to educate Texans on the environmental and economic benefits of waste reduction and recycling." For years earth-conscious Princeton residents have had to cart their recyclables to nearby communities, but they should soon be able to cart them to their own driveway.

People from around the world gathered for the dedication of the Kalachakra Buddha Temple and Meditation Center located on Hwy.

Claire Tidwell and Glindy Avila browse the selection of food at the Communitywide Thanksgiving service held Nov. 14th.

You've probably seen the ads promoting schemes to make money from home-based businesses.

Almost 10 percent of Texans were behind in their home loan payments during the third quarter.

In preparation for the January opening of its first Marketplace concept store in the Dallas area, Kroger will host a job fair from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday at 12221 Custer Road in Frisco.

The Texas Lottery Commission took another step Tuesday toward allowing Texans to buy Powerball tickets.

Updated specialty license plates for cars, trucks, motorcycles, trailers and private buses go on sale Thursday in Texas.

A 16-month-old child from Tarrant County died Tuesday at Children's Medical Center in Dallas due to complications from swine flu.