It’s exciting that Joppa, a neighborhood that has been historically neglected, will get a place that everyone in the community can use. The new community center will be housed in a historic school.

A man walks past the former Melissa Pierce School in Joppa on Thursday, July 8, 2021. Members of the Joppa community have been forced to fight too long and too hard for cleaner environmental ...

Joppa residents gathered at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday evening to hear the results of a health study, a year in the making. Researchers say residents living in the historic ...

JOPPA, Texas — September 7, 1954, the halls at Melissa Pierce School stood empty as they are today. Then, students at the all-Black school in Dallas’s southeast neighborhood of Joppa joined ...

A church used the building before it was donated to Habitat for Humanity, which built more than 100 homes in the area over the last two decades. During that time, Joppa became increasingly ...

Joppa community wants tougher penalties on TSRM concrete batch plant that operated more than a year without permit Texas Star Ready Mix says the plant's permit was voided before they purchased the ...

The home was under renovation, officials said.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Northeast Regional Office at 410-836-4844.It's unclear if the fires are related. JOPPA, Md. — ...