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1 hr ago | Austin American Statesman

Texas towns butt heads over bragging rights for state goat cook-off

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

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

WOI

Texas Firm Says Iowa Labor Laws Don't Apply

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.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Palestine Herald-Press

Storms bring needed rain

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.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

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Education Notebook 06.10.09

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.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

KWTX

Texas-Based Turkey Farm Disputes Labor Law Violations

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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Sat May 30, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

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Mon May 25, 2009

Des Moines Register

Register investigation: The last bunkhouse

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.

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Sat May 16, 2009

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Goldthwaite student wins district art show

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

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Fri May 15, 2009

Texas Trifles

Life of a SCS-WSBS

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

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Wed May 13, 2009

ReporterNews.com

Funerals today 05.13.09

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

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Thu Mar 12, 2009

KWTX

How Much Has It Rained? A Lot, And We're Not Done Yet

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.

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Thu Feb 26, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Iowa officials knew about disabled Texas workers in '97

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 ...

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Sat Feb 21, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Records show state familiar with turkey farm operation

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 ...

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Thu Feb 19, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Records seized in case of transplanted Texas workers

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.

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Tue Feb 17, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Choice haunts mom of Texan in Iowa bunkhouse

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

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Sun Feb 15, 2009

HoustonChronicle.com -- Chronicle

Iowans deny disabled Texans mistreated at 'bunkhouse'

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 ...

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Fri Feb 13, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Iowa company profited from labor of disabled Texans

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.

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Wed Feb 11, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Housing Of Disabled Workers Probed In Iowa

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.

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Mon Feb 09, 2009

El Paso Times

San Angelo national sheep auction report

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 ...

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Thu Feb 05, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

In triumphant return to Austin, singer Barbara Smith Conrad takes high note

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

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