Passing the Super Walmart, as subdivisions begin to dwindle, Ambler becomes Texas State Highway 351 East 351 and shrinks to two lanes. Mesquite trees dot the grassy plains and urban life slowly gives way to rural West Texas, with farmhouses keeping watch over grazing cattle and horses, all under the revolving arms of the wind turbines towering ... [Read More…]

In a room painted purple and white, a class of third graders write letters to their pen pals - ACU students - using pencils with ACU logos. They end each school day with a Wildcat chant. If you ask the students where they are going to college, 75 percent of them will say ACU, said Robin Carlile, their teacher. The children at San Jacinto ... [Read More…]

Some say a lost soul roams the hills northwest of Anson; others believe it's a ghost swinging a lantern back and forth. Skeptics say it's an unremarkable phenomenon easily explained by logic - but the only thing certain about a mysterious light in the sky near Anson, Texas, is no one is certain. Anson, a town of 2,500 located about 30 miles north ... [Read More…]

In a small classroom on the second floor of Southern Hills Church of Christ, 21 Bhutanese refugees sit in a hodgepodge circle of folding chairs. In the middle of the circle, two white folding tables hold royal blue Nepali Bibles. The refugees wear a mix of traditional Eastern clothes and more modern Western attire they've collected since coming to ... [Read More…]

As the sunlight reaches across the brush-covered fields of Rhoden Farm, caressing the wind-woven grasses and reflecting off the farmhouse windows, the goats are waking up. Nestled between the horse barn and the round pen, the brown and white Boer goats slowly stretch their way back to standing on all four hooves after a night of peaceful slumber. ... [Read More…]

"I don't spend a lot of time looking back, I like looking forward," said ACU chancellor Dr. Royce Money. When Dr. Phil Schubert officially took over responsibilities as president of ACU on June 1, of this year, former president Royce Money transitioned into his new role as university chancellor. The new position has given Money and his wife, Pam, ... [Read More…]

In Burro Alley, behind El Fenix Café, an overgrown and almost forgotten courtyard is home to Abilene's best-kept music secret - The Record Guys. The small store, tucked away between two local shops on the corner of South 1st and Willis, isn't visible from the street. Customers follow a red-brick sidewalk until they hear a Beatles' tune playing ... [Read More…]

Statistics from the American Cancer Society claim that in a four-year period, there have been 115 cases of invasive breast cancer per 100,000 women in the state of Texas. It may not sound like much, but it truly adds up.  For every million women, there have been 115,000 cases of the disease. What are people doing to fight this? How can women ... [Read More…]