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67-511: The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy ( WOGA ) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano . In 1994, WOGA was established by Yevgeny Marchenko , a World Sports acrobatic champion who guided Carly Patterson to her gold medal, and Valeri Liukin , a Soviet Olympic winner from 1988 who later worked as coordinator for the USA Gymnastics women's national team. Edouard Larov,

134-778: A Major League Soccer team, moved its home to Pizza Hut Park (now Toyota Stadium) near the corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Main Street in August 2005. A major international youth soccer tournament, the Dallas Cup , is hosted in Frisco each year and draws teams from around the world. The National Soccer Hall of Fame is co-located with Toyota Stadium. The Frisco RoughRiders , the Double-A Minor League Baseball affiliate of

201-443: A city manager . Council members' duties include enacting local legislation ( ordinances ), adopting budgets, determining policies, and appointing the city manager. The mayor and city council members each serve three year terms, with term limits of three terms. There have been only two city managers in Frisco history: George Purefoy, who served for over 34 years until his retirement in 2022, and his successor, Wes Pierson. According to

268-511: A $ 4.2 million writ of attachment to secure the ability of the Times to enforce a possible judgment in its favor. On March 10, 2015, Aaron Kushner and his partner, Eric Spitz, resigned from executive duties at the paper and Freedom Communications Inc. The company was rumored to be readying itself for a potential sale. Publisher Rich Mirman, a former Las Vegas casino executive who had invested in Freedom,

335-563: A Spanish-language weekly. In 2010 Excélsior had a circulation of 51,000. It covers Orange County's growing Hispanic community, which now numbers over a million. Julio Saenz is the editor and general manager. In 1994, Anderson was named publisher of Freedom’s second largest newspaper, the Colorado Springs Gazette . Managing editor Tonnie Katz was named to replace Anderson as editor of the Register . In 1999, Threshie became chairman of

402-633: A black-box theater, and the National Videogame Museum . Frisco Square hosts a variety of events throughout the year including Arts in the Square, Music in the Square, and the annual Christmas in the Square holiday light show (the largest choreographed lights and music show in North Texas). The city hall also hosts a Music in the Chamber concert series in the city council chamber. Frisco Public Library

469-527: A criminal background check and that the gym was not aware of any accusations until after Wagoner had left. In 2008, WOGA and Crabb settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount. In 2022, the U.S. Center for SafeSport launched an investigation into allegations of abuse of gymnasts by WOGA founder Liukin. "Multiple gymnasts allege Liukin routinely berated, belittled, and screamed at them, that he forced them to compete and train on broken bones or when they were ill, and in some cases they were fat-shamed daily," wrote

536-586: A former coach of Liukin and the USSR and Canadian national teams, also trained gymnasts at the club. In 2003, WOGA gymnasts Patterson and Hollie Vise won two individual medals and contributed to the first team gold for the United States at the World Championships. In 2004, Patterson became the second American gymnast to become the women's Olympic all-around gymnastics champion, and the first American to do so in

603-459: A local campus on Parkwood Boulevard north of Warren Parkway. In 2008, Frisco ISD opened the Career and Technology Education Center. The University of Dallas moved its Carrollton campus to Frisco. UT Arlington has a professional MBA campus in Frisco. The University of North Texas core MBA courses can be taken at the Frisco campus. The Orange County Register The Orange County Register

670-566: A main competitor to the Los Angeles Times was launched, this time intended to be "as local as one edition can be for the entire county." Five months later, Kushner announced in a company memo that the Los Angeles Register was ending publication effective immediately. Kushner wrote that "pundits and local competitors" will be quick to call the effort a failure while he believes that "not taking bold steps toward growth" would have been

737-735: A man and a woman definitively. After the Digital First purchase of Freedom Communications, the Register ' s editorial page was merged with that of the Los Angeles Daily News and Digital First's other papers in the region to form a single editorial board for the Southern California News Group on regional and national issues. In addition to publishing The Orange County Register , Southern California News Group publishes OC Family magazine, Coast magazine – until shutting down that magazine in 2020, and

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804-580: A non-boycotted Olympics. WOGA hosts an annual meet at the Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas , which has competitions from level 1 to 10 and an international elite competition that has featured competitors such as Mira Boumejmajen , Marine Brevet , Madeline Gardiner , Laurie Hernandez , Katelyn Ohashi , and Jordyn Wieber . WOGA is home to four Olympic champions: Patterson ( Athens 2004 ), Nastia Liukin ( Beijing 2008 ), Madison Kocian ( Rio 2016 ), and Hezly Rivera ( Paris 2024 ). Additionally WOGA

871-464: A permanent 5% pay cut starting in July 2009. News reports in August 2009 indicated that Freedom Communications planned to file for bankruptcy and turn control of its publications, including The Orange County Register , over to its lenders. In September 2009, a column written by sports columnist Mark Whicker caused controversy. In the column, Whicker wrote about various sporting events that had occurred over

938-571: A small number of layoffs. By April 2007, The Orange County Register had made additional staff cuts to help maintain shareholder profit, which had averaged more than 20 percent annually in the preceding five years. Since the launch of the OC Post in 2006, OCRC had cut the Register's editorial staff by 10 percent and had frozen pay raises to editorial staff, which had averaged 3 percent annually, for six months. In September 2007, Terry Horne replaced N. Christian Anderson III as publisher. He came from

1005-679: Is 33 °F (1 °C). The comfort index, which is based on humidity during the hot months, is 25 out of 100, where higher is more comfortable. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 200,509 people, 64,151 households, and 48,519 families residing in the city, up from 2010's tabulation of 116,989. Among the population, the 2019 American Community Survey estimated 51.9% were non-Hispanic or Latino white , 8.4% Black or African American , 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native , 26.0% Asian alone, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander , 2.7% two or more races , and 10.7% Hispanic and Latino American of any race. By 2020, 48% of

1072-481: Is a " home rule " city. Frisco voters adopted its initial "home rule" charter in 1987. Frisco residents have voted to amend the charter three times since 1987: In May 2014, the Charter Review Commission recommended an additional 14 propositions, but these were never placed on the ballots. Frisco has a council-manager government, which consists of a mayor, six city council members elected at-large , and

1139-515: Is a 20,500-seat stadium. It is primarily used as a soccer stadium by FC Dallas , but also hosts concerts and high school and college football games, including the NCAA Division I-AA (FCS) college football championship starting in 2010 and the NCAA Division I (FBS) Frisco Bowl starting in 2017. The Comerica Center (formerly Dr Pepper Arena), a combination hockey and basketball venue, is

1206-628: Is a paid daily newspaper published in California . The Register , published in Orange County, California , is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digital First Media News subsidiaries. Freedom Communications owned the newspaper from 1935 to 2016. The Register was founded by a consortium as the Santa Ana Daily Register in 1905. It was sold to J. P. Baumgartner in 1906 and to J. Frank Burke in 1927. In 1935 it

1273-587: Is headquartered in Frisco, and practices at the Comerica Center . The Texas Tornado of the North American Hockey League had been based in Frisco since the fall of 2003, and shortly afterward the league moved its main offices to Frisco. In the 2013 off-season, the Texas Tornado relocated to North Richland Hills, Texas. The league relocated its offices in 2018. FC Dallas (formerly the Dallas Burn),

1340-748: Is home to seven world champions: Patterson ( 2003 ), Hollie Vise ( 2003 ), Liukin ( 2005 , 2007 ), Ivana Hong ( 2007 ), Kocian ( 2014 , 2015 ),, Alyssa Baumann ( 2014 ), and Skye Blakely ( 2022 , 2023 ). Other notable women's artistic gymnasts include Irina Alexeeva , Vanessa Atler , Rebecca Bross , Briley Casanova , Madray Johnson , Brenda Magaña , Grace McLaughlin , Konnor McClain , Ohashi, Levi Ruivivar , and McKenzie Wofford . Notable men's artistic gymnasts include Glenn McCuen . Notable acrobatic gymnasts include Dylan Inserra and Axl Osborne . In 2003 and 2004, WOGA coach Christopher Wagoner fondled and raped 14-year-old Natasha Crabb. Police launched an investigation in 2005 after Wagoner had left

1407-450: Is in Frisco. The Frisco Athletic Center features 18,000 square feet (1,700 m ) of indoor aquatics elements and about 40,000 square feet (3,700 m ) of outdoor aquatic features. It features exercise equipment, basketball courts, and group exercise classes. On January 11, 2023, Universal Destinations & Experiences announced a "new concept"-styled theme park to be constructed in Frisco called Universal Kids Resort . Frisco

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1474-613: The Long Beach Press-Telegram . In addition, on January 20, 2014, The Press-Enterprise became an edition of The Orange County Register while maintaining coverage of the Inland Empire . On April 16, 2014, The Orange County Register launched the Los Angeles Register , "more a print play than a digital one" serving Los Angeles County . It was the first time since the Herald-Examiner folded on November 1, 1989, that

1541-687: The Orange County Register , citing a Southern California News Group investigation published in March 2022. Liukin remained under investigation as of January 2023. Frisco, Texas Frisco is a city in the U.S. state of Texas , located in Collin and Denton counties. It is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (DFW) and about 25 miles (40 km) from both Dallas Love Field and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport . Its population

1608-504: The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It won additional Pulitzers in 1989 for beat reporting by Edward Humes on U.S. military problems with night-vision goggles and in 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch 's fertility clinics. In 1990, the newspaper launched the 24-hour OCN news channel with news and feature stories about Orange County. It closed in 2001. In 1992, Orange County Register Communications launched Excélsior ,

1675-563: The East Valley Tribune , a Freedom-owned suburban paper in the Phoenix area. In June 2008, KTLA , The Los Angeles Times and Fox News reported that the Register had begun a one-month trial of outsourcing some layout and copy-editing work to India to save costs. The trial was not deemed a success, and editing returned to Register In spring of 2009, Freedom Communications instituted furloughs for all employees nationwide, followed by

1742-665: The Frisco Fighters , debuted with home games to be played at Comerica Center . After the Fighters' 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the team played its inaugural home opener on June 5, 2021. In their first year of operation, the Fighters clinched a playoff berth, advancing as far as the IFL semifinal game against the eventual 2021 United Bowl champion Massachusetts Pirates . The Dallas Stars National Hockey League team

1809-783: The Press-Enterprise for $ 52.3 million in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana . Los Angeles News Group was renamed Southern California News Group on March 31, 2016, once the sale of Freedom Communications to Digital First Media was completed. It has 11 paid regional dailies, and community weeklies serving the South Bay communities of Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach and Palos Verdes Peninsula, the Long Beach neighborhoods north and east of downtown and over 20 community weeklies in Orange County, as well as

1876-400: The Register ' s circulation had dropped to 80,000 on weekdays and 180,000 on Sundays. The Register was notable for its generally libertarian -leaning editorial page. It generally supported free markets and social liberties , though at least some on the editorial board said they would not call it libertarian. Although it sometimes supported Republican politicians and positions, it

1943-781: The Texas Rangers in the South Division of the Texas League , play in Frisco at Riders Field . The Texas Legends , affiliated with the Dallas Mavericks , are members of the NBA G League and play at Comerica Center . On November 16, 2017, Major League Lacrosse announced it would be moving the Rochester Rattlers franchise to The Ford Center at the Star in Frisco for the 2018 season as

2010-745: The U.S. Postal Service rejected the name as too similar to another community, Emberson, in Lamar County . In 1904, the town's residents chose "Frisco City" in honor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. This name was later shortened to Frisco. Frisco is within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, partially in Denton and Collin counties, in North Texas . According to the United States Census Bureau ,

2077-529: The 2021 state and federal redistricting, Frisco contains most or parts of Texas State House of Representatives districts 57 , 61 , 66 and 106 . Frisco contains parts of Texas State Senate districts 8 and 30 . After the 2021 state and federal redistricting, Frisco contains parts of United States Congressional districts 3 , 4 , and 26 . Most of Frisco is in the Frisco Independent School District (Frisco ISD), with some parts of

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2144-652: The Dallas Rattlers. The Rattlers folded after the 2019 season. The Southland Conference , an NCAA Division I athletics organization, relocated its headquarters to Frisco in 2006. On February 26, 2010, Pizza Hut Park (now Toyota Stadium) was announced as the host of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly NCAA Division I-AA) championship game, formerly held in Chattanooga, Tennessee , and Huntington, West Virginia . The first matchup, hosted by

2211-621: The Dallas area was being settled by American pioneers, many of the settlers traveled by wagon trains along the Shawnee Trail . This trail became the Preston Trail , and later Preston Road . With all this activity, the community of Lebanon was founded along this trail and was granted a U.S. post office in 1860. In 1902, a line of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway ("the Frisco") was being built through

2278-465: The FEDC, whose primary purpose is to reallocate such tax dollars to commercial ventures, is a matter of public debate. Frisco Square, a mixed-use development , became the new downtown along with the city hall. Frisco Square has about 250 rental residential units, seven restaurants, about 40,000 square feet (3,700 m ) of commercial office space, and a few personal-service locations. The major development in

2345-662: The Ford Center at the Star in lieu of a dedicated third football stadium, Frisco ISD has held high school football games at the Ford Center since it opened. Multiple professional indoor football teams have previously been based in Frisco, including the Frisco Thunder of the Intense Football League and the Texas Revolution of Champions Indoor Football . In 2020 a new Indoor Football League expansion franchise,

2412-501: The Ford Center, including the Texas Revolution of Champions Indoor Football and the Dallas Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse . Riders Field , a 10,316-seat baseball stadium , hosted its first baseball game on April 3, 2003. BaseballParks.com named it the best new ballpark that year, and it received the 2003 Texas Construction award for Best Architectural Design. Toyota Stadium , which opened in 2005 as "Pizza Hut Park",

2479-601: The Freedom Communications name. In December the Register changed its logo and branding, dropping " The " in favor of Orange County Register . A lawsuit was filed in October 2013 by the former owners of Freedom Communications against Aaron Kushner, principal of 2100 Trust, demanding that Kushner's company pay more than $ 17 million remaining on the sale. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Kushner, "a former greeting-card executive with no prior media experience," claimed that

2546-605: The Frisco ISD Career and Technical Education Center, high school students can experience and try different careers, from veterinary work to advertising and graphic design. The Texas Legislature designated Collin College as the community college for the municipality of Frisco as well as all of Collin County. The Preston Ridge campus of the community college district opened on Wade Boulevard in Frisco in 1995. Amberton University has

2613-510: The Frisco city limits, but some are in adjacent suburbs, such as Plano. All Frisco high schools compete in UIL Class 5A, with the exception of Panther Creek High School, which competes in Class 4A. The Frisco ISD Early Childhood School is available for children ages three and four who meet eligibility requirements for Headstart, Prekindergarten, or Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities. At

2680-619: The Hoiles family descendants retained control of the board. The private equity firms received a management fee off the company’s gross revenue. In 2006, Orange County Register Communications launched the OC Post , a tabloid with shortened versions of Register stories as well as news articles from the Associated Press . The Register had its first significant staff reductions in December 2006, with 40 newsroom employees taking buyouts, along with

2747-567: The Southland Conference, was played January 7, 2011. Frisco also has an Olympic-sized, state-of-the-art natatorium . The Frisco Baseball and Softball Association was established in 1984. The Frisco Football League is an organized recreational league that allows children to play football before entering football in the school district. The Flagfootball4fun Flag Football League (FF4FUN) is an organized recreational youth flag football league. The sports entertainment conglomerate Dude Perfect

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2814-524: The Spanish-language weeklies Impacto USA and Unidos , now consolidated as Excelsior , which will have three editions for Los Angeles County, Orange County and Inland Empire. On Sept. 21, 2016, it was announced that the Register would move its headquarters to 2190 Towne Centre Place, Anaheim, and vacate its longtime home at 625 N. Grand Avenue, Santa Ana. The new headquarters opened April 24, 2017. The Alliance for Audited Media reported in 2017 that

2881-512: The Star is a 12,000-seat indoor stadium. The 91-acre Dallas Cowboys project "The Star" includes the team's headquarters and training facilities, including the Ford Center, where the Cowboys practice and Frisco ISD high school teams practice and play on a rotating basis. It is on Gaylord Parkway, one block west of the Dallas North Tollway. Multiple professional teams have made their home at

2948-430: The area, and periodic watering stops were needed along the route for the steam locomotives. The current settlement of Lebanon was on Preston Ridge and was too high in elevation, so the watering stop was placed about 4 miles (6 km) to the west on lower ground. A community grew around this train stop, and some Lebanon residents moved their houses to the new community on logs. The new town was originally named Emerson, but

3015-507: The board of Freedom Communication and Anderson returned to the Register as publisher and chief executive officer . Ken Brusic was named vice president of content and executive editor in April 2002. In 2003, a family schism led to the sale of a majority interest in Freedom Communications to investors led by the Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners . Through a stock arrangement,

3082-586: The city extending into the Lewisville Independent School District , Little Elm Independent School District , and Prosper Independent School District . Lewisville ISD operates one elementary campus in the city while Prosper ISD operates an elementary school, a middle school, and Rock Hill High School , a high school within the Frisco city limits. Frisco ISD has 12 high schools 18 middle schools and 43 elementary schools , and 3 special programs centers. Most Frisco ISD schools are within

3149-405: The city has an area of 62.4 sq mi (161.6 km ), of which 160.1 km (61.8 sq mi) is land and 0.58 sq mi (1.5 km ), or 0.92%, is covered by water. Frisco is part of the humid subtropical region. The city gets 39 inches (990 mm) of precipitation per year. On average, 230 days per year are sunny. The July high is 96 °F (36 °C); the January low

3216-460: The city was $ 38,048. About 2.2% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.5% of those under age 18 and 2.4% of those age 65 or over. The median price for a new home was $ 252,000. By 2019, its median income grew to $ 116,884. Frisco has many retail properties, including Stonebriar Centre , a 165-store regional mall ; IKEA , a furniture store with an area of 28,800 m (310,000 sq ft); and The Star,

3283-540: The city's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $ 227.2 million in revenue, $ 184.4 million in expenditures, $ 1.647 billion in total assets, $ 753.1 million in total liabilities, and $ 159.3 million in cash and investments. The city of Frisco is a voluntary member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments , the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective local governments and facilitate regional solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions. After

3350-409: The designation Tree City USA from the National Arbor Day Foundation . The United States Census Bureau defines an urban area of northern Dallas-area suburbs that are separated from the Dallas–Fort Worth urban area, with McKinney and Frisco as the principal cities: the McKinney–Frisco, Texas, urban area had a population of 504,803 as of the 2020 census , ranked 83rd in the United States . When

3417-421: The end of 2015. Both Digital First Media and Tribune Publishing were the bidders. The auction started on March 21 and was completed on March 31, 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice blocked the sale of Freedom Communications to Tribune Publishing because it would create a newspaper monopoly in both Orange and Riverside Counties..On March 21, 2016, Digital First Media acquired both The Orange County Register and

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3484-424: The following affiliated weeklies: On April 1, 2013, the Orange County Register began providing its online content through a metered paywall . Most online content required a subscription, with the exception of local weather, traffic, Associated Press or non- Register articles, and a few select local news articles. As of October 2015, the website does not have a paywall and online content is free. As of May 2018,

3551-421: The gym. He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and was sentenced in 2006 to 15 years in prison. After Wagoner pled guilty, Crabb and her family sued WOGA's owners, alleging that the gym had failed to properly screen and supervise the coach. The suit did not seek a specific amount of money from the academy owners and did not accuse them of abuse. Bill Boyd, the gym's attorney, said all instructors receive

3618-441: The headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys . Retail establishments and restaurants line Preston Road, one of the city's major north–south traffic arteries. Frisco took a different economic track than many surrounding cities, electing to use a fractional percent of local sales tax to fund the Frisco Economic Development Corporation (FEDC) rather than Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional transportation body. The effectiveness of

3685-446: The home of the Texas Legends of the NBA G League and the Frisco Fighters of the Indoor Football League , and a practice facility for the Dallas Stars of the NHL . The Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) moved their corporate headquarters to "The Star" in Frisco in time for the 2016 NFL football season; the complex opened in June 2016. Built-in partnership with Frisco ISD , which contributed $ 30 million to build

3752-480: The newspaper was a prominent supporter of a vociferous campaign by anti-communists against the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act , claiming that it was part of a Communist plot to establish concentration camps in Alaska . Circulation rose with the burgeoning population of Orange County and after the Register added a morning edition in 1959. In 1970, Hoiles's sons, Clarence and Harry, became co-publishers until 1979, when R. David Threshie, Clarence's son-in-law,

3819-410: The population were non-Hispanic white, 8.82% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 26.27% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.52% some other race, 4.55% multiracial, and 11.48% Hispanic or Latino of any race. According to a 2010 American Community Survey estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $ 100,868, the median income for a family was $ 109,086. The per capita income for

3886-543: The preceding 18 years, and how they had been missed by Jaycee Dugard , a girl who had been kidnapped, raped, and forced to bear her kidnapper's children. Whicker ended his column with the line "Jaycee, you have left the yard." The column generated criticism in blogs such as Deadspin , who called it "the single worst piece of journalism ever committed on this page", and The Huffington Post . On July 25, 2012, The Orange County Register and six other papers were purchased by 2100 Trust LLC. The papers continued to operate under

3953-512: The prior owners had given him "inaccurate valuations for a host of crucial financial indicators" and that he faced "$ 62.3 million in unexpected financial liabilities as a result." On August 19, 2013, the Long Beach Register was launched as an edition of The Orange County Register serving the Long Beach, California , community. It was focused solely on community news, including city government, public and private education, local sports coverage, business and entertainment as an intended competitor to

4020-453: The project is the new city hall, main library, and public commons. A Cinemark theater opened in 2010. In 2012, a hospital, Medical City Plano-Frisco, was built north of the theater. Frisco's top employers as of 2019 were the following: Frisco hosts the Museum of the American Railroad , which is based in the Frisco Heritage Museum while construction on a separate museum complex continues. The nearby Discovery Center features an art gallery,

4087-401: The true failure. The Long Beach Register became a Sunday-only publication in June 2014, and ceased publication in December 2014. In October the Los Angeles Times sued the Register for failing to pay more than $ 2 million to the Times for delivery services for the now-defunct Register newspapers in Los Angeles and Long Beach. In March 2014 the Los Angeles Superior Court granted the Times

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4154-456: Was 200,509 in the 2020 U.S. census . Frisco was the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2017, and also from 2000 to 2009. In the late 1990s, the northern DFW suburban development tide hit the northern border of Plano and spilled into Frisco, sparking rapid growth into the 2000s. Like many of the cities in Dallas's northern exurbs, Frisco serves as a bedroom community for professionals who work in DFW. Since 2003, Frisco has received

4221-410: Was announced as the new president and chief executive. On February 12, 2016, Freedom Communications announced that The Orange County Register and the Press-Enterprise along with its websites, community weeklies and the two Spanish-Language weeklies Excelsior in Orange County and La Prensa in the Inland Empire, were being placed in a "stalking horse" auction after the company declared bankrupt at

4288-466: Was bought by Raymond C. Hoiles , who renamed it the Santa Ana Register. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hoiles was one of the few newspaper publishers in the country to oppose the forced relocation of Japanese and Japanese Americans to camps away from the West Coast. Hoiles reorganized his holdings as Freedom Newspapers, Inc. In 1950, the name was changed to Freedom Communications. The paper dropped "Santa Ana" from its title in 1952. In 1956,

4355-444: Was housed in City Hall until March 2023, when the new library opened in a converted warehouse building. The new library is the sixth-largest in Texas and hosts a full-size Tyrannosaurus skeleton named Rexy. Frisco is home to several sporting venues, many major sports teams headquarters, and an NCAA Division I conference headquarters. In April 2011, Men's Journal named Frisco the Best Place to Raise an Athlete. The Ford Center at

4422-467: Was named to the position. Faced with an aggressive push into the county by the Los Angeles Times under publisher Otis Chandler, Threshie brought in 30-year-old N. Christian Anderson III as editor. Political positions were restricted to the editorial page. In 1981, the paper began publishing in full color. In 1985, the paper assumed the name The Orange County Register . In the same year it won its first Pulitzer Prize , for its photographic coverage of

4489-430: Was the largest newspaper in the country to have opposed the Iraq War from the beginning and opposed laws regulating issues such as prostitution and drug use . It was one of a handful of newspapers that opposed the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans during World War II . It also opposed Proposition 8 in 2008, which proposed to define the word "marriage" in the California Constitution to mean between

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