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Local musicians are teaming up to raise funds for the family of a fellow East Texas musician who died in July.

Heading into its 85th anniversary after a two-year hiatus, the National Truck Driving Championships return with a high level of excitement and a slate of competitors ready to once again showcase their skills behind the wheel.

Image zoom From left: President John F. Kennedy and a bouquet-carrying Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, on a campaign tour with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (rear) | Credit: Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Many remember the weekend of Nov. 22, 1963, because of the national horror that unfolded: President John F. Kennedy shot in the head in his limo while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas wit...

lifelines by melissa bernstein Image zoom "I was forever asking the question, why? 'Why am I here? What am I meant to do while I'm here? What is the point of life if we ultimately just all perish?' " the co-founder of Melissa & Doug says. "Those were the questions that plagued me." And they persisted until the toy maker was 50 years old, when she stumbled across a name for her feelings — "existential depression" (defined as the state of hopeless doubt that life has any purpose or value). It was a eureka moment that led to an official diagnosis of severe anxiety ...

| Credit: Drew Valo "I never got mad at them even to this day, but I wished they would have told me the truth," he says. "As I got exposed to people and they treated me as I am, as a Black young man, then it was strange for me. I would say, 'Oh, I'm Spanish.' And then they'd say, 'And mixed with what?' " He says he was "devastated" when he learned the man raising him wasn't his real father. Out of respect for his mother, Storey didn't confront her with what he knew about his lineage until ...