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BUFFALO GAP - On June 2nd, the 2nd annual Buffalo Run Adventure Run was held in Buffalo Gap. Vehicles of all sorts and sizes line up to get to the Four Corners monument in Arizona and back to Buffalo Gap while competing various challenges along the way. The goal of the race is to raise funds for Camp Able, a 501c3 charity that helps children and adults who have Autism, as well as helping veterans who suffer from PTSD. But, they do much more in helping everyone suffering from physical and mental conditions and handicaps. The work of Camp Able is near and dear to Cody Cox and Stever Schooley, the founders of the adventure race. The camp was the reason that they started this adventure run to begin with.

FRISCO — DeMarcus Lawrence used to say he didn’t care about sacks as long as he felt he was being productive — until Micah Parsons led the Dallas Cowboys in that category while winning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2021.

BALLINGER: Last week, after reciting a litany of the world’s woes we focused on the problem of young men who commit mass murder followed with the intention of suicide by cop. In discussions of the two recent assailants in Buffalo and Uvalde we hear the often-repeated question that is regularly associated with hand wringing, “Why did they do it?” We hear it so often that it is taken as a rhetorical element, not as honest questioning. But it needs to be asked as such, and it needs a good answer. What could be the answer? Where can we look for the answer? According to common translations of Aristotle, all of our motivations come down to seeking “happiness.” Aristotle never used the word happiness, of course, but he did indicate that ultimately we do what we do in order to have eudaimonia* (which is translated as happiness) saying… “this we choose always for itself and never for the sake of something else, but honor, pleasure, reason, and every virtue [we] choose for… the sake of happiness, judging that by means of them we shall be happy.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings starting this week as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster.

FRIONA, TEXAS - A former police officer who sexually assaulted at least two teenage boys was sentenced this week to 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.