ARLINGTON — Rangers ownership built Globe Life Field to be a national showcase, to help put the team on center stage in baseball and the sports world. The ballpark will become that showcase Monday, but probably not under the circumstances the owners intended. After a year of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the American way of life, the Rangers’ decision to open …

Easter looks like a great day for sunrise services and for Easter egg hunts. It will be dry, cloudy and comfortably cool at daybreak, becoming breezy and slightly warmer by late afternoon. Any showers today will likely remain south of Waco. Next week will be dry with a significant warming trend. Highs will be in the 80s. Gusty southwest winds …

Even after a year of unexpected challenges, the Rev. Tom Palmer is full of hope. When the coronavirus pandemic halted First United Methodist Church of Coppell’s in-person activities last year, Facebook Live became the way to participate in Sunday service. But Palmer, the senior pastor, said he struggled to find ways to keep virtual services engaging. In August, in-person services …

Crystal Garza, 19, was unsure about what life would look like for her after high school, and the pandemic made deciding on college even harder. Garza did not know whether she should go into community college or risk running into financial troubles at a four-year university. But in her senior year, she decided to take a pledge that put her …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — This story was originally published in 2018. More than 50 years ago, a bullet changed history and tried to stop change. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated while planning a march with striking garbage workers in Memphis. Millions mourned the civil rights leader’s death, even though his nonviolent movement for civil rights had lost a lot …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person died early Sunday in a fiery crash in southeast Houston. It happened around 2:50 a.m. in the 400 block of El Dorado Boulevard near Galveston Road. The driver of a red pickup truck was on El Dorado when the vehicle left the roadway, crashed into several trees and ruptured a gas line before catching …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — While the pews are far from capacity this year, Easter Sunday 2021 appeared to be a sign of a slow return to normal for worshipers at Houston-area churches. “It’s so nice to see people. We missed coming to mass,” said one attendee at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. “Being there during the Mass …

As many as 22 Indian police and paramilitary forces personnel were killed and 30 others wounded in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in a central Indian state, police said on Sunday, in the deadliest ambush of its kind in four years. Some 2,000 security personnel were on the hunt for a Maoist rebel leader in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh …

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar said on Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest Indian celebrity to contract the virus as the vast nation battles a new wave of cases. India reported 93,249 new daily infections on Sunday, according to health ministry data, the highest increase since September, taking the total known cases to almost 12.5 million. …

Pop diva Beyonce’s nine-year-old daughter Blue Ivy is her lookalike as the singer looked exactly like her while she was still a school-going kid. Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles took to Instagram on April 3 to share a throwback snap of the ‘Crazy In Love’ singer while she was just a small kid of an elementary school. In the picture, the …