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Friday Jul 3 | KOSA

Presidio County Jail Awaiting $100,000 Grant

CBS 7 News Staff July 2, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Tonight the fate of the Presidio County Jail lies in the hands of the Governor's Office.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

WOAI

Sex abuse case against TYC officials stalls again

When legislators and prosecutors realized a sex abuse case at a remote West Texas juvenile prison had languished in the hands of a local district attorney for two years, they vowed to move the case swiftly forward as the graphic allegations created a statewide scandal.

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Related Topix: Texas, West, TX, Ward County, TX, Pyote, TX

Wed Jun 24, 2009

KOSA

Commissioners Working to Get County Jail Back in Business

CBS 7 News Staff June 23, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Presidio County Commissioners are working on a way to re-open the jail, which is now temporarily closed.

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Related Topix: Marfa, TX

Thu Jun 11, 2009

KOSA

Presidio County Jail Temporarily Shutting Down

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News June 11, 2009 Presidio County leaders are temporarily shutting down the county jail because a lack of funding.

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Related Topix: Sierra Blanca, TX, Upton County, TX

Thu May 21, 2009

The Austin Chronicle

Day Trips

If it were a state, the Big Bend region of Texas would rank 42nd in size. In the approximately 10,000 square miles between U.S. 90 and the bend in the Rio Grande, there are only five towns that are more than just a wide spot in the road and miles of highway through the desert and mountains.

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Related Topix: Texas, Brewster County, TX, Alpine, TX, Austin Metro, Austin, TX

Fri May 15, 2009

Odessa American Online

Fourth illegal immigrant rescued in Presidio County

Border patrol agents found and rescued a fourth illegal immigrant Thursday evening in a group that was stranded near the brush fires in Presidio County, according to a news release from U.S. Border Patrol Marfa Sector spokesman Bill Brooks.

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Related Topix: Illegal Immigration, US News, Marfa, TX

Thu May 14, 2009

Odessa American Online

Firefighters battle 200-acre blaze

PRESIDIO COUNTY Firefighters and the Texas Forest Services are fighting a 200-acre blaze that was deliberately started by suspected illegal immigrants trying to block their pursuers, according to a news release from forest service spokesman Marq Webb.

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Thu May 07, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Border smugglers get creative in moving people, drugs

In March, 19 illegal immigrants were arrested in Campo after they tried to elude Border Patrol agents by traveling in a vehicle posing as a DHL delivery van.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, San Antonio, TX, Marfa, TX

Fri Apr 24, 2009

Odessa American Online

Lightning sparks fires

A dry lightning storm that rolled through West Texas on Thursday sparked four large grassfires that kept the Texas Forest Service and area firefighters busy, forest service spokesman Lewis Kearney said.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, West, TX, Marfa, TX, Presidio, TX, Brewster County, TX

Wed Apr 15, 2009

Odessa American Online

ICE: Immigrant smuggler uses ambulance

MARFA A clever smuggling scheme in Presidio County came to an abrupt end March 5 with the arrest of a Presidio man who had been using an ambulance service to transport illegal immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint, a news release said.

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Related Topix: Marfa, TX, Presidio, TX

Tue Mar 31, 2009

Odessa American Online

Wanted man arrested

PRESIDIO U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents working at the Presidio port of entry nabbed a man wanted in connection with a Missouri homicide investigation late Saturday night.

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Related Topix: Presidio, TX, Prison, West, TX

Tue Mar 24, 2009

El Paso Times

Leon Metz: Jurisdiction lines were confusing in El Paso of yore

Establishing boundaries is practically always controversial, and so it was that after Texas won its independence from Mexico, it claimed areas south and west of the Rio Grande, although it was never able to establish authority over what is now El Paso until the Treaty of Guadalupe -- which ended the Mexican War -- went into effect in 1848.

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Related Topix: El Paso, TX, El Paso Metro, Texas, Fort Bliss, TX, El Paso County, TX

Sun Mar 22, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

A different

Rachel Osier Lindley, 24, looks up Highland Avenue, Marfa's main drag, toward the Presidio County courthouse.

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Related Topix: Marfa, TX, West, TX, Daniel Day-Lewis, Theater, Arts

Sat Feb 21, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Letters: Texasa share of stimulus

As a university teacher who has been in education all my life - I began teaching English along the border in Presidio County when I was 16 for a mission effort - I shudder at the stimulus money.

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Related Topix: Houston Metro, Texas Government, Texas, Representative Pete Olson, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Opinion

Wed Feb 18, 2009

Happy News

Wildflower Forecast for Texas Looks Bright

For those who need a bluebonnet fix, there is a new option - a broadcast on the Web of camera footage of some of the many thriving bluebonnets at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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Related Topix: Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Brazoria County, TX, Lake Jackson, TX

Sun Feb 01, 2009

National Public Radio

Donald Judd Found Perfect Canvas In Texas Town

In the 1970s, artist Donald Judd grew frustrated with New York City's small gallery spaces.

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Related Topix: Texas, Marfa, TX, West, TX

Fri Jan 30, 2009

McClatchy DC

Commentary: Money must go to where border problems exist

This editorial appeared in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Any first-grader who's experienced the Junior Achievement program that develops the next generation of capitalists knows the difference between a want ...

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Related Topix: West, TX

Wed Jan 28, 2009

CNN

Wide open in west Texas

On a bright big bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences.

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Related Topix: Texas, Marfa, TX, San Antonio, TX, Travel

Fri Jan 23, 2009

KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi

Quiet border counties get crime-fighting funds

Presidio County has never seen the kind of fictional carnage that was filmed there for the movie, "No Country for Old Men." But if it ever does, Sheriff Danny Dominguez now has the gear to fight it, thanks to ...

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Related Topix: Prison, West, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, El Paso, TX

Wed Jan 21, 2009

AgNews - Texas A&M University

Texas crop, weather

As drought prevailed, pasture and stock tanks dried out and burn bans were put in place in many counties, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Texas, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Jack County, TX

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