San Marcos — Interested in becoming a foster parent? The Burke Foundation Child Placing Agency, a non-profit Hays County agency, will hold an informational meeting for potential foster parents Thursday at 7 p.m. at the San Marcos Public Library.

Palestinians have been mourning the death of their national poet Mahmoud Darwish, seen by most in the Arab world as the greatest poet in modern Arab culture.

Ben Hogan stopped playing full-time competitive golf 50 years ago and died in 1997 at 84. Yet his swing has withstood time, technology and fashion to remain the most coveted and mysterious swing in golf -- by far. Stars power Tahoe tournament

The battle over diversity in the media came to a head in the town of Burlington, Vt. in a heated debate over whether to continue airing the award-winning news channel Al Jazeera English.

American folk poet Ogden Nash, in frustration with the increasing clutter of signage along the country’s highways in the 1950s, penned a short piece entitled “Song of the Open Road” —I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Indee