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A Confederate veteran’s son, cradling a black powder rifle, lingers near his Civil War wares, watching children slowly approach his memorabilia.

They called it an economic contraction, spurred by an energy crisis. There was dramatic employment decline, massive layoffs, and unemployment grew by 3.5 million, reaching the highest recorded since the post-World War II period.

“My name is Chase,” a five-year-old boy said, standing alone in his empty backyard. “And I miss my friends. Can I go and play at the park with them?” “Hi Chase,” Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere answered, beaming from his home office.

For nearly 20 years, a school shooting has occurred every March somewhere in the U.S. Then COVID-19 struck. A reporter with the Washington Post was the first to report that none occurred in March, and several news outlets followed.

Shutterstock As we get deeper into the pandemic-powered lockdown, it seems folks are getting antsy to the point of fantasizing about what life will be like once our lives aren’t quite so quarantined.

Monday morning, news broke that someone had stolen a food truck from Plano-based Minnie’s Food Pantry.

Courtesy of InSync Sanctuary Facebook When “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” aired, the staff at InSync Exotics , an exotic animal sanctuary established in Collin County in 2000, didn’t know what to think.

Ten minutes. That’s all it took for David Tilley to face what could have been a fight for his life. As the public information officer for the Plano Police department, he was no stranger to handling crises.

Over Easter weekend, Minnie’s Food Pantry, a Plano-based pantry that is dedicated to feeding the hungry, closed over the weekend so that their staff could enjoy the holiday.

Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reported that Gov.