Ministry conferences are usually upbeat, uplifting affairs that leave you invigorated and hopeful, but when Kile Bateman was headed back to Texas after attending a Christian gathering in California,...

  Brandy Barringer was strolling around the shopping mall the other day when she came face to face with a broken escalator. There it sat, still and silent, steep and...

You know it’s hot when you spot a guy in a white tank top, baggie gray shorts, and flip-flops with a pair of fans strung around his neck.   Just a...

What we tend to forget when it comes to law enforcement officers is that they are not robotic algorithms programmed from basements in some nondescript central office. They are flesh...

Kenny Macino was an entrepreneur before she knew exactly what that meant. A fellow student at Bailey Junior High, where Macino is an eighth-grader, so loved Macino’s life-like sock doll...

On the last Thursday of March, inside an airy auditorium on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, Rigien Jackson stood before 50 or so public health students, their laptops...

Epiphanies have a way of flinging us into a tailspin of deliberation, partly because they don’t always line up with what one might call sensible terms.   Preston Nguyen was a...

You can’t enter the spaciously tidy conference room at Luraco Technologies in northeast Arlington and not notice The Wall. Framed patents line it like wallpaper, up and down, side by...

Michael Furrh is a professional golf entertainer. I’ll let that sink in. Thing is, he can smack golf balls with a custom-made 8-foot driver, which for you non-golf aficionados (like...

Carol Hughes is a runner, which is somewhat astonishing to those who knew her back in the day, herself included. She might have competed as a high school long jumper,...