Homecoming season in Texas brings festive decorations to cities, with students proudly wearing the iconic, oversized mums and ...

But it wouldn't be Texas homecoming without the star of the Lone Star show: the mum. For 50 years, the homecoming mum has been a hallmark tradition for Texans statewide, providing high school ...

You won’t catch Sherry Bedinger describing homecoming mums as “gaudy.”“They’re pretty in their own way,” said Bedinger, who is at the ...

But Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, is not one of them. The state, which has the highest number of eligible children among the 12 holdouts states, missed the Jan. 1 ...