Stories from Sunday, March 11, 2018

Today is Sunday, March 11, the 70th day of 2018. There are 295 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 11, 1918, what are believed to be the first confirmed U.S. cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 would die. (The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.)...

Repairs to damaged sections of new pavement on South Sprigg Street near the Lone Star Cement plant will begin next month, says Public Works director Doug Leslie; several sections of pavement, broken during the past few years by heavy vehicles crossing Spring near the cement plant's quarry entrance and near the old entrance to the cement plant, will be replaced...