Goldthwaite News

It's a tale of two cities, legislative intrigue and how one word can turn conflict into harmony.

A Texas company that hired out dozens of mentally disabled workers to work in a turkey processing plant in eastern Iowa says it's not subject to Iowa's labors laws.

A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left about 245,000 North Texans without power and made for a chaotic Thursday morning rush-hour commute through flooded streets without working traffic lights.

Jack Nall, who was an award-winning band director at Cooper High School and a former AISD district administrator, retired effective May 31 from his job as principal at Craig Middle School.

The co-owner of a Central Texas-based business that hired out mentally disabled workers as laborers in turkey processing plants in Iowa says the firm didn't violate labor laws.

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Click below to watch a video overview of this story by Clark Kauffman, including video, photos and documents he gathered during a recent trip to Texas.

A Big Country student, Sara Slaughter, was awarded first place in the 11th Congressional District Art Competition for 2009, U.S. Rep.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potatoa 'the best part of him is underground.

Martha K. Gillit, 62, memorial 10:30 a.m. at Albany Church of Christ, under the direction of Godfrey-Neese Funeral Home, Inc.

At Lake Whitney, 5.14 inches of rain has fallen in the last two days. Aquilla and Goldthwaite also report 48-hour totals of more than 5 inches.

State investigators alerted their Iowa counterparts nearly 12 years ago that there may be issues with a plan to hire out mentally impaired Texas men to a meat processing plant there, according to Iowa records ...

Jane Ann Johnson looked at the wall in her office - the one with plaques of praise from civic groups, state agencies and even a lieutenant governor for her husband's company's work hiring the mentally disabled ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office on Thursday seized business records belonging to a company that took mentally disabled men to Iowa more than 20 years ago to work in turkey processing plants.

Nelda Lashley, 75, and her daughter Kathleen Meeks want information on a family member, Ronnie.

To hear locals tell it, there is little truth in statements about deplorable conditions at the unlicensed group home from social workers and journalists, whom they accuse of obscuring what could be a more ...

A Texas labor broker earned as much as $40,000 a month off the labor of mentally disabled men sent to work in an Iowa meat processing plant, employees told the Houston Chronicle.

Officials say they are making arrangements for 21 mentally disabled men found living in a squalid bunkhouse in Iowa run by their employer, a turkey processor.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - San Angelo national sheep auction report for Monday, Feb. 9, 2009: No report at Goldthwaite, Tex.. Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3: Virginia: wooled 90-110 lbs 122.00; 110-130 lbs ...

Segregationist politicians once stifled opera singer Barbara Smith Conrad's youthful talent.