tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85556574373314958652026-10-18T04:06:39.340-05:00FateNews.com is your source for city, business, opinion, weather and sports news in Fate, Texas and Rockwall County. We also cover local events, live music and high school sports. The newspaper also offers DFW events and sports affecting Fate citizens.News Deskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283094332114196732noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555657437331495865.post-86621604165080062122019-08-01T21:22:00.002-05:002019-08-01T21:22:28.236-05:00

A former Collin County resident was sentenced in Plano for a Metroplex wire fraud scheme. The 52-year-old Aurora, CO man has been sentenced to federal prison for a wire fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew D. DeSarno. He was also ordered to pay restitution of nearly $342k to the victim. John Russell

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Since 1981, the 4th Congressional District has been represented by a congressman from Rockwall County. Now, State Sen. Bob Hall wants to extend the streak as he is seriously considering a race for Congress to replace Rep. John Ratcliffe who has been tapped by President Trump to be the new Director of National Intelligence. Having the last name of "Hall" can only benefit any candidate since

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Geniuses come in all shapes and sizes, and a local young man in Greenville used his ingenuity to solve a very complicated problem based on the Rubik's Cube.  In doing so, he created a beautiful mosaic of Sitting Bull. Bowie 5th grade G/T student, Alex Brown, quickly devised the algorithms needed to complete a Rubik’s Cube class project. With the assigned project completed ahead of

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INTRODUCING FATE NEWS: FateNews.com and its sister online publication, ArkLaTexNews.com, were many years in the making and launched under the direction of Executive Editor Randa Thornton-Mason (see biography below) on May 4, 2019. The concept was initially developed in 2015 with the idea of establishing a news organization for the ArkLaTex region including all of the cities in our 4th

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Rockwall County's Ronnie Pruitt - a De Kalb, Texas and Ark-La-Tex area native - was named Chief Operating Officer and President of US Concrete on April 15, 2019. The Dallas-Fort Worth company based in Euless has been growing at a fast pace, and sales increased year over year by approximately $200 million allowing US Concrete to pass $1.5 billion in annual revenue in 2018. The son of Rod and

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The City of Fate has been going through a process to better understand its history and gather more information about the important people from Fate's past. This led to the city adding a webpage to the official city site titled "Historical Fate" in early April, 2019. Originally, Fate was settled about a mile and a half north of the current city of Fate, and William Lafayette Brown (shown in the

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The National Prescription Drugs Take Back Day is on April 27, 2019 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm with thousands of collection points around the country. We have several collection points around as, and you can see below for the full list. Unused prescription drugs that are left around family, friends and other visitors often get stolen and are highly sought after by people who may have an

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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles from The Local Beekeeper who offers wisdom about bees and beekeeping from his life of beekeeping in the ArkLaTex. All opinions are that of The Local Beekeeper and should be viewed for entertainment purposes only. You should obtain professional advice for all medical and technical matters. Spring is here and bees are starting swarm due

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Spending is something we do every day to get the things we need and want. Food is a requirement for survival and is usually purchased locally - as is gasoline. But what about everything else? Are we hurting our own community by purchasing from far away companies in other regions? Local retail experts say the answer is "yes." Today, many of us go straight to the web to purchase any

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