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2026 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Regular Season Week 0, Preseason Rankings: IHSS Local Rankings Week 1, Aug. 27-29: Scores Week 2, Sept. 3-5: Scores | Rankings: IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 3, Sept. 10-12: Scores | Rankings : IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 4, Sep...
When it comes to a private school application, test scores are just one piece of the puzzle — albeit an important one. The Independent School Entrance Examination is one of the most popular tests, which more than 1,200 schools around the world accept. That includes many of the Da...
Free mammograms, vision screenings, and dental consultations are all part of an event happening Saturday in Fort Worth. The BarbaraCares Foundation is hosting its annual Care2Fight Health and Wellness Fair. Free health screenings, vaccinations, wellness resources, education, and ...
Cameron Harris asked her parents if she could start a lemonade stand when she was younger, and the idea has grown into a blossoming business in Cedar Hill. Cedar Hill ISD said the Collegiate High School freshman started the business in front of her home, and now it’s something th...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposed a $70,000 fee Wednesday for international students who want to work in the United States, a plan it says should "make it easier for American citizens to compete in the job market."...
A Michigan middle school fundraiser is going viral for its hilariously direct approach after a student’s father shared a picture of a form his daughter brought home from school on social media. Dan Reese, whose daughter attends Saline Middle School in Saline, Michigan, just south...
Texas public schools banned 8,193 books during the 2025-26 school year, more than twice as many as any other state, according to PEN America.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment. A proposed rule would require schools to pay the fee for e...
It’s a big day for two Dallas teenagers. A project they worked on for months debuts tonight on the big screen. Helen Flanagan and Eres Stone are seniors at The Hockaday School. Over the past few months, the friends took their phones across Dallas and sat down with more than a doz...
Longview ISD has announced the opening of a new e-sports arena designed to give students experience in competitive gaming, digital media and live event production....
A group of students in Fort Worth ISD is urging district leaders to reconsider changes made under the state takeover. “We realize we have to be the people who will stand up for ourselves and figure this out,” said Paschal High School freshman Eve Fruge. Fruge was one of several s...
Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island during a Fourth of July celebration and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation. Lawyers for the friends said they intend to file several more d...
Two Greenville High School seniors are getting millions of views for the teamwork that allows them to take the field together with the Greenville Lion Pride Marching Band. But for cousins Summa McGlothing and Zaniya Perkins, their story is about more than marching band. It’s abou...
Meacham Middle School is temporarily closed after heavy rain caused damage to the recently renovated building. Superintendent Dr. Pete Licata informed families that the campus is currently unsafe and repairs will take a few weeks. Starting today, students are being temporarily re...
Officials for the State Fair of Texas announced that free admission tickets distributed to students from pre-K through eighth grade will be valid on any day of the State Fair of Texas through Oct. 18, including the final two weekends....
A North Texas family is suing after an alleged hazing incident involving Marcus High School football players. The lawsuit claims their 16-year-old son was stripped down to his underwear and shot with a pellet gun at an off-campus offensive line team dinner in October 2025. Accord...
Meacham Middle School students will attend classes at Briscoe Elementary for several weeks while Fort Worth ISD repairs damage caused by heavy rain. Meacham Middle School students will attend classes at Briscoe Elementary for several weeks while Fort Worth ISD repairs damage caus...
A former Ohio music pastor and “American Idol” contestant has been sentenced to life without possibility of parole for killing his wife in their Dayton-area home earlier this year. Caleb Flynn, 40, was found guilty of aggravated murder in the February shooting of Ashley Flynn, 37...
NOTE: The video in the player above is from a previous story. Dennis Hastert, the nation’s longest-serving Republican House speaker, who helped turn much of President George W. Bush’s agenda into law before his own political legacy was forever fouled by allegations that he molest...
With North Texas serving as a major aviation hub, there is always a need to develop the next generation of talent. At Dallas Executive Airport Saturday hundreds of girls and families gathered for the 12th annual Girls in Aviation Day. It’s designed to inspire girls to pursue a ca...
Fort Worth Independent School District officials announced that portions of Meacham Middle School have been rendered unsafe for occupancy following heavy rainfall, forcing a temporary relocation of the campus....
For parents following the case of a former Cornell student who alleges she was gang-raped at the Chi Phi house in October 2024, one question has been top of mind: Why did no one in the fraternity intervene? In a lawsuit filed last month, a woman identified as Jane Doe saidshe was...
A middle school in Fort Worth ISD will need several weeks of repairs after recent storms caused damage to the building. FOX 4's Peyton Yager has more.
Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas was evacuated on Friday after a gas odor was reported inside the school.
An under-construction Fort Worth ISD middle school sustained heavy enough damage during Thursday's storms that it must be closed for weeks of repairs, forcing students and staff to temporarily relocate to a new building....
In the corner of Superintendent Toby Tucker’s office, something stands out a bit. He has eggs in an incubator under his close watch and that of the students of Anna ISD “We want to do something every year that connects my office to our classroom,” said Tucker. Coming from a farmi...
2026 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Regular Season Week 0, Preseason Rankings: IHSS Local Rankings Week 1, Aug. 27-29: Scores Week 2, Sept. 3-5: Scores | Rankings: IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 3, Sept. 10-12: Scores | Rankings : IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 4, Sep...
It’s homecoming season in North Texas, and it brings some of the biggest moments in high school, from mums that live up to the “Everything is better in Texas” stereotype to the glamour and gowns of homecoming court. Local photographer and writer Amy J. Schultz was so fascinated w...
New York lawmakers are renewing efforts to close a state legal loophole regarding voluntary intoxication and sexual consent following allegations involving a Cornell University fraternity....
The N.Y. Attorney General’s Office is reviewing Cornell’s handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape following a former student’s civil lawsuit, an office spokesperson confirmed to FOX 5 N.Y....
A Louisiana State University student who claims a school football player raped her last year is speaking out about how the school handled her report and the lack of guidance she said she received throughout the process. Kendall Danielle Francis talked on TikTok about the monthslo...
Every Wednesday at 9:45 a.m., students sink into the pool at the South Arlington YMCA for a water aerobics workout filled with movement, weights and plenty of cheers. The class is open to all ages, but the oldest person at the pool isn’t in the water. She’s leading the workout. “...
A student journalist at the University of Texas at Dallas is suing university officials, arguing they violated his free speech rights by disciplining him over a disclaimer he attached to a student’s guest column. In 2024, Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez, then editor-in-chief of UTD’s...
A nonprofit known for providing free supplies and support to teachers is expanding its reach to do something good for more people in the community. The Welman Project in Fort Worth just opened a free bookshop called Pages for the People. It’s inside the nonprofit’s location on th...
The driver charged with two felonies in the 2023 death of an SMU student began a trial this week over the fatal incident.
A University of Georgia student survived a plunge from her eighth-floor apartment, authorities said Monday, after she had been “dancing on a couch near a window” and fell out. The terrifying fall from the Rambler Athens Apartments at 558 W. Broad St. in Athens happened at about 7...
Dennis Haskins, the actor best known for his role as principal Richard Belding on the high school comedy series “Saved by the Bell,” has died, his agent said Monday. Haskins was 75. A cause and manner of death were unavailable. “It’s a tragic loss,” Jay Schachter, head of film an...
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven students after being plied with alcohol and drugs. Tompkins County Dist...
Almost three dozen teachers around North Texas got something good that brought a little boost to their classrooms. Teachers in 31 schools got 250 dollar grants from Dallas-based TSG Restaurants and McAlister’s Deli. • One teacher used the funding to launch Leopard Brew, a student...
Senator Ted Cruz discussed the tight Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico, out-of-state campaign fundraising, and how the proposed Protect College Sports Act would regulate student-athlete transfers....
A fifth-grade teacher and her 10-year-old student died after being recovered from the water at Iowa’s Coralville Reservoir near Lake MacBride State Park....
The two Ole Miss students found dead earlier this week have been identified. Here's what to know.
A teacher and student were recovered from a resevoir spillway in Johnson County, Iowa after authorities were contacted during a school field trip.
The bodies of a 5th-grade student and teacher were recovered from the water at Lake MacBride State Park in Iowa following an incident during a field trip. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office was called to the park Tuesday afternoon for reports of people in the water near Coralvil...
2026 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Regular Season Week 0, Preseason Rankings: IHSS Local Rankings Week 1, Aug. 27-29: Scores Week 2, Sept. 3-5: Scores | Rankings: IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 3, Sept. 10-12: Scores | Rankings : IHSS Local | Campbell’s Statewide Week 4, Sep...
TCU (2-1) at UCF (2-1), Sept. 26 at 2:30 p.m. CST. Opening Line: TCU by 3. Against the spread: TCU 2-1, UCF 2-1. How to watch: Fox Sports 1 Key stats TCU Offense Overall: 475 yards per game (31st in FBS) Passing: 301 yards per game (22nd) Rushing: 174 yards per game (56th) Scorin...
A white Philadelphia teacher and activist has admitted to lying about her identity for years, falsely claiming Palestinian and Black heritage while working with Palestinian and racial justice organizations. Hannah Gann posted a statement to her Instagram page last week, admitting...
A school district in Johnson County has canceled the rest of its 2026 season after just three games, citing a rash of injuries that has left its roster with too few players to safely play....
The FOX 9 documentary “Minnesota Monster" chronicles the story of a Twin Cities teacher and coach who sexually abused more than 120 young boys, the institutional failures that allowed him to go undetected for years, and never-before-seen video of the routine traffic stop that cra...
Two University of Mississippi students died this week and packaged kratom was found during the separate death investigations, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Authorities said they have not confirmed that kratom or any other substance was a contributing factor in either de...
Keene ISD announced on a social media post that the district would cancel the 2026 and 2027 varsity football seasons due to a lack of healthy players. Keene ISD Superintendent Dr. Ricky Stephens said the athletic program’s decision was effective immediately. “We are canceling the...
Shundelon Ross hoped the seventh school would be the one to work. Her son wandered the hallways, clutching his favorite stuffed animal. He threw high fives to the employees. He stared, mesmerized, at the chickens pecking around the coop. Ross believed a private school would bette...
The University of Mississippi has confirmed the deaths of two Ole Miss students as local law enforcement offers an update on its investigation into how two college-aged students who were found near packaged kratom died....
A Kaufman ISD student is in custody after allegedly bringing a gun to a junior high campus on Tuesday.
Arizona State hockey coaches were present when a player collapsed during an outdoor workout , but plans for the training session were not submitted to the school, according to a preliminary report issued by the university on Tuesday. Matthew Mayich collapsed during an Aug. 20 wor...
A student at Ursula Rakow Middle School in Rockwall was detained on Monday after allegedly making a terroristic threat.
On the 43-acre campus of EnterHealth Ranch in Van Alstyne, thousands of people have found sobriety through a mix of medication, counseling, functional wellness, nutrition and even brain stimulation therapy. Now, doctors here are adding a new tool to that list: GLP-1 medications, ...
