Love horses? Dreaming of being a cowboy or cowgirl? Want to get paid to ride on horseback? The Fort Worth Herd is looking for drovers to work the twice-daily cattle drive in the Stockyards. Longhorns are the stars of the show in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, but someone has to walk the cattle down Exchange Street every day of the week at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. in all sorts of weather. While tourists and visitors gasp at the horns stretching 6′ to 10′ tip to tip and snap pictures, a team of drovers makes it all happen. “What we do, as a drover, we represent the era betwee ..read more

A Montana dad said teenagers are “some of the coolest people on the planet” after two older boys helped his young son at a trampoline park. Now, one of the teen’s moms is responding, telling TODAY.com she’s thankful for the affirmation that she’s “doing something right as a mother.” “If you live in Billings, Montana and your teenage sons were at Get Air (Trampoline Park) yesterday, you should be really proud of them — they’re awesome,” said a man who runs the TikTok account The Bearded Bard, in an April 6 video. The video caption read: “You two were the real MVPs yesterday. You rock.” Sho ..read more

Hundreds of motorcycle riders are expected to take part Thursday in the massive annual motorcade escorting Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Gainesville. The North Texas city hosts an annual event recognizing the national heroes with a parade, dinner, and other special events. This year’s motorcade is on Thursday, April 25, and is expected to leave the south side of the airport between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. From there the motorcade will travel about 60 miles to Gainesville along highways 183, 360, 114, and 121. Historically, some parts of the h ..read more

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access. In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other purposes. Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protections, which enabled hackers to take control of customers ..read more

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who are not yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds. About 1 in 4 have no retirement savings, according to research released Wednesday by the organization that shows how a graying America is worrying more and more about how to make ends meet even as economists and policymakers say the U.S. economy has all but achieved a soft landing after two years of record inflation. Everyday expenses and housing costs, including rent and mortgage payments, are the bi ..read more

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through the new 35-foot channel headed for St. John, Canada. Two more commercial ships followed later Thursday, including a vehicle carrier headed to Panama. Their long-awaited voyages marked an important step in the ongoing cleanup and recovery effort as crews have been working around the c ..read more

A driver was able to walk away after an 18-wheeler allegedly rammed his car along a bridge until it was forced over the edge, with him still inside. Dallas Fire-Rescue says the accident happened around 9:00 a.m. along the 9800 – 9900 block of Walton Walker Freeway. Two men told NBC 5 they often fish in this area of the Trinity River and were standing next to their cars when they heard a scraping sound. Urbano Cepeda and Kevin Torres said they looked over and saw an 18-wheeler truck had pinned a black car against the edge of the bridge, dragging it for several yards before the car flew into the ..read more

A Nevada couple was arrested on Tuesday after authorities found their 11-year-old son with autism held in a metal cage, wearing only a diaper with feces smeared on the cage’s floor. Henderson police officers went to the boy’s home to conduct a wellness check at 10:15 a.m on Tuesday morning, when the Clark County School District reached out asking for assistance with a “truancy issue” involving a student who had not been coming to school. According to NBC News police officers discovered the 11-year-old was “being contained within a large metal enclosure.” The residence also had “inhospitable li ..read more

DallasNews.com/Food writer Sarah Blaskovich dishes about a noteworthy milestone for Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse in Dallas, the collapse of Chicago-based Foxtrot and Tim Hortons’ plans to expand. NICK & SAM’S STEAKHOUSE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS Nick & Sam’s opened on Maple Avenue in Dallas in 1999, and it was one of those places that quickly became known for being a celebrity hangout. The owners credit Dirk Nowitzki as its first celebrity regular, but over the years, it’s been a celebrity hot spot. Nick & Sam’s celebrated its 25th anniversary with an invitation-only birthday party on Sun ..read more

Heroes are those people who do extraordinary things.  That’s what two barbers in East Hartford did to save a girl’s life.  “My reaction was not only to look, it was to run and reach the girl. Thank God we had the time to reach her,” said Osvaldo Lugo. With no time to figure out what was happening, Osvaldo Lugo and Rafael Santana, both barbers from Look Sharp Barbershop, ran to rescue the girl, who was heading towards an intersection just when a truck was driving by. “Ten more steps and the truck would have crashed into her,” Santana said. Lugo said that what went through his mind was ..read more