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12/30/2010
Merry 6th day of Christmas |
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Abilene Tourism Increased In 2010 |
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Option for High and Dry Ashley Customers |
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Driver Busted with $2k in Parking Tickets and Fines |
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Abilene Woman Claims Injury Because of Police Officer |
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Four Abilene High students injured in fatal I-20 crash |
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New owners of Abilene hardware store plan few changes |
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Suddenlink cable deal with Viacom still up in the air |
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Man allegedly shoots, kills dogs in south Abilene neighborhood |
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Paramount Theatre tries to connect with young moviegoers |
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Lake Tucker Offers Nearby Sanctuary |
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Pay-what-you-can eatery without profit isn’t noble
|
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12/29/2010
Merry 5th day of Christmas |
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Abilene police prep for New Year's, stress safety |
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HD71's Susan King is grandmother of twins a bit early |
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Lower Heating Bills for Abilene Residents this Winter
|
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Free Classes on How to Operate a Computer |
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Suddenlink Customers May Lose Several Channels This Weekend |
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Texas Polygamist sect leader, Warren Jeffs, pleads not guilty |
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Eastland Courthouse to Step Up Security
- that's right, be afraid of those you work for |
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Wheelchair Rugby Comes to
Central Texas |
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Breckenridge fire department conducting safety surveys |
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Stephens Co. commissioners honor Gary Ernest |
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Abilene-born musician killed in Austin home invasion |
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Mankind also is Abilene firm's business |
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Fog forces pilot to land aircraft on access road after redirect |
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Propane Truck Flips in Coleman |
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Abilene restaurant is on shaky ground
- a dumb idea from naive people |
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Pratt: Pay-what-you-can eatery without profit isn’t noble |
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Man allegedly shoots, kills dogs in south Abilene neighborhood
- if claim is true he not only had the right to shoot the dogs but the
obligation |
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Arrest in male-on-male sexual assault in Sweetwater |
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Missing Street (High Ave.) Sign Has Neighbors Upset in Eastland
|
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12/28/2010
Merry 4th day of Christmas |
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Privacy lawsuit against city of Abilene tossed by judge
|
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Over $20k Owed to the City of Abilene in Parking Tickets |
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Outstanding Abilene ISD Teachers Could Receive up to $20,000 Bonus |
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Cross Plains Man Remembers Mother Killed in Massive Blaze |
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Child Porn Suspect Dies in Jail Suicide, Official Rules |
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Mixed results for Abilene hotels |
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Veterinarian for Abilene Zoo staff sought |
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DC: Mortgage giants on Neugebauer's mind |
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Scholars are staying in school in Abilene, of course |
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A zesty side of Clyde: Bonterra Blu |
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Eastland Co. Commissioners Pittman and Christian Retire |
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Christmas rain helps wheat |
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Two Arrested for Running Over Man |
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Plane Lands on I-20 Access Road in Abilene
|
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12/27/2010
Merry 3rd day of Christmas |
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The Magic Boat stops in Sweetwater |
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New heart symbol spreads love on Texas roads |
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"Recycle Christmas" Underway For Abilene Residents |
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Power Outage Closes Rose Park Senior Center |
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Kittens Tossed Into Busy Street |
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Gordon Development Corporation Board Seeking New Members |
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Fire Victim in Critical Condition |
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Abilene HS Standouts R. Sims, Joseph Commit to SMU
|
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12/24-26/2010
Merry Christmas |
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HSU alum Victor Carrillo named to board of oil company |
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Goodwill and Dell offer computer recycling for Abilene and beyond |
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Holiday Travel Keeping Cisco Fire Department Busy |
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Wind industry still making local impact |
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Abilene and Wylie school districts look to electronic textbooks
|
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12/23/2010
|
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Welcome to Abilene: Sorry we're off-line! |
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Diamond Rio to headline Rehab telethon |
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Abilene: Holiday Garbage Collection, Other City Services |
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Flames Tearing Through Merkel Home |
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Home Near Tye Destroyed By Fire |
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Old Furr's Building to Become Organic Grocery Store
|
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Abilene Billboard Pays Tribute to Bush and Cheney |
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New Main Entrance Open at Hendrick Medical Center |
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Merkel woman arrested following high-speed chase |
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Former HSU coach Niemann announced as NIU defensive coordinator |
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Abilene High coach Warren withdraws from Angelo State hunt
|
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Will Wagner named head football coach at Angelo State Univ. |
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Broadwind details plans for drivetrain service center in Abilene |
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Listener: Abilene ISD Begs State For Funding? No more cuts! Oh hell no! |
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Pratt: Abilene ISD another example of wrong priorities |
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Strawn man dies after being trampled by cattle |
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Men Pinned Between Cars in Bizarre Abilene Wreck |
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DC: Conaway picked for agriculture leadership role
|
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12/22/2010
|
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Abilene ISD Leader Pleads for Action in Funding Cuts |
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Boy Who Left School Got Ride from Stranger |
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Abilene school is learning with the click of a mouse |
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Some regional schools make the official Underperforming Schools list
triggering automatic transfer ability. |
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Wanted: More people in Big Country, Neugebauer unruffled on Census numbers |
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NTSB Issues Its Report on Crash of Brownwood Man's Plane |
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Man Killed in Crash with Tractor, Plow in Knox Co. |
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Hawley Residents Respond to Massive Wildfire |
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Hawley Grass Fire Started by Transformer |
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Wartes, Niemann to leave HSU football staff |
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Transmission line project set to start for Taylor and Brown counties |
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Abilene BBB warns of deed copy scam |
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Appliance rebate sparking questions in Abilene |
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Eastland City Commissioners Discuss Fire Trucks and Water Bills |
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Dec.
22nd in Texas History: Escaped POW, Albany native, William Dyess resumes
flying and dies in plane crash |
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Baby with Cell Phone Shows Up on Doorstep |
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Big Spring State
Hospital Needs Used TV Sets
|
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12/21/2010
|
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Husband Kills Wife, Shoots Self Later in Nolan County |
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Area lawmakers who voted against 'don't ask' repeal cite reasons |
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Movers Taking Furniture Out of Ashley Building |
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Taylor Co. Sheriff: 6 fires in 3 days |
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Whataburger Reopening after Early-Morning Fire |
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Grass Fire Spreading in Hawley |
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Puppy Scam Targets Abilenians |
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Ortiz Elementary Third-Grader Walks out of School |
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Suddenlink channels going dark? |
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Child Porn Suspect Dies in Apparent Taylor Co. Jail Suicide |
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Man's Car, Clothes Lead to Dealership Burglary Arrest
|
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12/20/2010
|
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Appliance Rebate Program Begins Today |
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"Hippies" Hit The Streets For a Holiday Protest
|
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Nurses Save Heart Attack Victim's Life at Christmas Party |
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Breckenridge Jr. High staff honored for national award |
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Better late than never for Abilene shoppers |
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Officials try to curb economic collapse of grain elevators |
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Missing Ortiz Elementary student found |
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Family and Friends Mourn Plane Crash Victim from Brownwood |
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CBS Early Show Features Albany Family's Display |
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Hardin-Simmons national NCAA champs in women’s
soccer - reported proudly on Pratt on
Texas earlier |
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Exciting, critical time for farmers beckons |
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Adino Energy Commences Drilling on Coleman Co. Prospect |
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More Water Disruptions on the Way in Eastland |
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India: Cotton production may miss estimate on untimely rain
|
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12/18&19/2010
|
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Minister Encourages Refugees to Trust Police Amid Assault Fears |
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Neugebauer keeps seat in House ag. committee |
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Cornyn takes heat for $100M in 48 earmarks including Abilene project |
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Keep Brownwood Beautiful honored by national organization |
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Mart Defeats Goldthwaite To Capture 1A Division I Championship |
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Report: Texas should revise school tax break incentives, wind farms getting
$1.6 million |
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Eastland Co. Judge Honored for Education Efforts |
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Coleman Co: Man Killed in Fiery Cattle Truck Collision |
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Jones County Man Watches Home Go Up in Flames |
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ACU and Reagan Elementary Announce Partnership |
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Donations for Abilene Organizations Down |
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McMurry aims to take step up to Division II |
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HSU official: McMurry move could end crosstown rivalries |
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There are options to lowering cost of textbooks |
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Cowboy event great excuse to raise funds for Anson Opera house |
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Bonham students board 'Polar Express' |
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Dec.
19th in Texas History: Albany jail reopens as a museum |
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New wardrobe choice for ACU fans?
|
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12/17/2010
|
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Abilene Unemployment Rate Grows to 6.5% from 6.3% in October |
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100 new high tech jobs may be coming to Abilene |
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Abilene firm is seeking to fill 150 jobs over next few months |
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Victims Asked to Come Forward after City of Abilene Employee's Arrest |
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APD Nzeyimana Press Conference |
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Coleman Co. Fire Fighters
Association launches new website |
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Abilene Man Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charge |
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75th Consecutive "Cowboy Christmas Ball" in Anson
|
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Abilene High's Warren 1 of 4 finalists for Angelo State football job |
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Pot cases hold steady in Abilene schools |
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Potosi family receives aid after fire |
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Airport shop heeds Western links |
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Inmate assaults Brown Co. jailer during hospital visit |
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NTSB on Site of Brownwood Pilot's Crash in Colorado |
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$3.5B Sweetwater coal plant moves forward |
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Hobbs alternative school to consolidate with Colorado City |
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Sweetwater Mandates Year-Round Curfew for
minors: 11pm - how about this: when
kids are doing wrong arrest them, otherwise leave 'em alone? |
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Abilene Gears up for Texas' Biggest 1-Day
Country Music Event - that's right,
celebrate Texas Independence Day on a day this is NOT Texas Independence
Day. |
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Gov. Perry Appoints Johnson of Goldthwaite to Lower Colorado River Authority
Board of Directors |
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Free Flight to D.C. Offered to Big Country WWII Veterans
|
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12/16/2010
|
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Abilene ISD again misses mark on Adequate Yearly Progress standards -
see your schools' AYP performance
here |
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Census: Texas' growth not seen in Abilene |
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Abilene Zoo to Raise Admission Price in 2011 |
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Boil water notice issued for some in Merkel |
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Taylor County Constable, John Howard, to Retire |
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Big Country Veterans Recognized for Service |
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Abilene Homeowners Taking Advantage of Low Interest Rates |
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Abilene Text Message Frenzy No Joke |
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"COOL" Program Becoming Quite Cool Among High School Students |
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Fewer Abilenians Tying the Knot |
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Goldthwaite seeks 1A Division 1 repeat |
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AHS, Cooper land players on academic all-state team |
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Frac Tech files paperwork to pursue IPO |
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Brown Co. WID OK's water sales to Baptist Encampment |
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2 bodies found in plane wreck in Colo. mountains, plane's owner lives in
Brownwood |
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DC: TX13's Mac Thornberry named to Armed Services Committee |
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DC: Neugebauer to have say in financial rules |
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DWI Arrests Hit Record in Abilene |
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Abilene HS's Warren Is Finalist For Angelo State Football Job |
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Company to Open 150 Positions in Abilene |
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UFO Hunter Frustrated after Spotting More Lights
|
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12/15/2010
|
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Trailblazer Energy Center Receives Final Air Quality Permits |
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State approves Tenaska permit for Nolan County plant |
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$3.5 billion power plant in West Texas wins key permits |
 |
Brownwood Renames Facilities after Former
Leaders - how about honoring the
taxpayers who paid for things, not the politicians who forced them so to do. |
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Breckenridge city manager search narrowing down |
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Census: Abilene stays on solid ground |
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ACU Distributes iPads to Maintenance Team |
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Eastland High School Students Take A Stand Against Bullies |
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Tips Come in on Roscoe Ranch Fire |
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Gordon 4-H Local Livestock Show December 18 |
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A piece of history |
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Abilene ISD lobbies legislators on school start-date legislation |
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Claim: Poor Taylor Co. jail conditions |
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Online giving makes philanthropy easy, accessible in Abilene |
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City of Abilene Looking to Replace the $346K "Spyder" |
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Jaws of Life Free Driver on N. 1st
|
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12/14/2010
|
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Big Country gets razzed twice with Bum Steer
awards - often these Bum Steer awards
are a compliment, remember who is awarding them - the Left-Wingers at Texas
Monthly. |
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Neighbors Put Up Blue Lights to Honor A Fallen Hero |
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Sweetwater's Texas Theatre gets back air and heat |
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Ranger Budget Workshop Canceled |
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Final Pressure Relief Valve Installed in Eastland |
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7 Cisco Wranglers Named to the SJCFC All Conference Team |
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Clyde ISD upset you know about their lousy 2.5 Star FAST rating |
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Vacant Buildings Discussed at Abilene ISD Meeting |
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Abilene ISD to sell six schools |
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Abilene ISD Pleads State for No Funding Cuts |
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Abilene ISD board postpones superintendent's evaluation |
 |
$2 Million Project Set to Get Underway at Wylie ISD
|
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Appliance Rebate Program Begins Monday |
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New Cameras To Help Assault Victims |
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What Happens to Seized Counterfeit Merchandise? |
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Abilene Airport to Reach Agreements with Restaurant, Gift Shop |
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Rezoning, airport items head Abilene City Council agenda |
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Big Country mental health, disability advocates
warn against cuts - that's right,
let's just go bankrupt and then see how many "needy" get assistance. |
 |
Utility assistance funds in short supply in the Big Country |
 |
TCEQ green-lights Tenaska coal-fired power plant near Sweetwater |
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County Coming Up with Plan to Collect $14K from Ashley |
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Fraud in Abilene part of significant troubles with federal stimulus
weatherization program |
 |
Pickens plan no longer includes wind power
|
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12/13/2010
|
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Neugebauer: Republicans Will Support A “Reasonable” Bill |
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Sixty Texas Soldiers Return Home From Iraq |
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Eastland to Have Low or No Water Later Today |
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City of Breckenridge awards employee service pins |
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Scott and White to honor Bellard with naming of new ALS clinic |
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McMurry team tackles online contest |
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Superintendent evaluation on agenda for Abilene ISD school board |
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Cattlemen look for lessons in $130 million swindle
|
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New Jones Co. jail complex to sit empty for at least another 60 days |
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McMurry Mascot Search Narrowed After Delay
- I vote to go back to Indians |
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Shermco Industries Prepares for More Growth |
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Dry Weather Means No "Sky-Rockets" in Eastland County
|
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12/11&12/2010
|
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Volunteer Fire Department Gears Up For Fire Season |
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HD85:
Landtroop hires Alice Sawayer as district director |
 |
Mary’s Cafe Break-In in Strawn
- thankfully they didn't get any of the Chicken-Fried Steak! |
 |
Brownwood community heartbroken after football loss |
 |
Garden City wins 2nd straight Six-Man Division I state championship |
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Nearly 200 Students Walk at ACU Graduation |
 |
Record Number of Students Graduate from TSTC |
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TSTC student clears one hurdle after another in taking her diploma |
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Nearly 300 Students Graduate from Hardin-Simmons |
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McMurry University holds Fall 2010 Commencement Ceremony |
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McMurry instructor gets students into the mind of a killer |
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Texas Tech to offer new bachelor's degree program in Abilene, other places |
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Air Evac Gets New Helicopter |
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Inmates yet to arrive at Jones County jail in Anson |
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Former Franklin students remember Abilene school set to be demolished
|
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12/10/2010
|
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Student's Mother: Stamford Teacher "Stepped Over the Line" |
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Investigation continues on Hawley coach's relations with student |
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Metrocare Offers Alternative to Citizens EMS Recommendations |
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Six Local Business Have Had Limited Tax Seizures Since August |
 |
Local Firefighters Deliver Food To Area Families In Need
|
 |
Stereo Scam Hitting the Big Country |
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Two Suspects Try to Rob Abilene 7-Eleven |
 |
Fly Out of Abilene, Win a Trip to Vegas |
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VA clinic to occupy ex-big box store in Abilene |
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Big-box stores leave lots of vacant space in Abilene |
 |
Planned electric lines near Abilene await OK |
 |
Carthage offensive stats as gaudy as those put up by Brownwood |
 |
Fox
Sports Southwest to Webcast 6-man Garden City Football Game |
 |
KTAB to Televise Brownwood vs. Carthage Game Saturday |
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Updated:
Notice cancelled,
Urgent Eastland water alert, low pressure & outages |
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Sweetwater's Texas Theatre celebrates 75th anniversary |
 |
Sierra Club warns of Tenaska’s water usage |
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ICE Seizes $100,000 in Counterfeit Clothing in Abilene |
 |
Lubbock/Abilene,
Amarillo & Midland (TX 19, 13 & 11) Congressional seat short of voters for
redistricting
|
 |
12/09/2010
|
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Jones County Jail and Sheriff's Office Sit
Unused
- a fine example of why local gov't needs to stick with basic needs and stay
away from speculative, business-type investments. |
 |
Safety Concerns Spark Renovations: Taylor County Expo Center |
 |
Public School Spending Rankings For Area Schools |
 |
Texas Comptroller's Office Gives Abilene ISD Low Marks
|
 |
Abilene ISD: Texas ahead of nation on school
lunches - NOT something to brag
about! |
 |
Saturday is final Reclaim Breckenridge Rolloff Day for 2010 |
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Tenaska helps fund Backpack Buddies |
 |
Tenaska water needs for proposed coal power
plant blasted - by radicals |
 |
West Texas DRT in a Battle of the Alamo |
 |
Ambulance Accident Ends in Severed Light Pole in Brownwood |
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'Choice Ready Mix' Is Ready To Hire |
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Abilene PD sets sights on reducing wrecks in town |
 |
Grinch on the loose: Theft at Abilene Salvation Army |
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Former af2 standout named Abilene Ruff Riders head coach |
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Frac Tech could lay groundwork to offer $600M in public shares |
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Dancin' in Anson: Christmas Ball keeps boots scootin' |
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Rep.-Elect Landtroop Makes First Big Spring Visit Since Winning Election |
 |
Wind industry says 3,000 Texas jobs could be
lost if key subsidy isn't renewed -
then they are not legitimate jobs |
 |
DC: Neugebauer to serve as chairman of finance subcommittee,
WSJ column names Neugebauer as a "Fannie Mae Republican" |
 |
Dyess AFB airman arrested on charge of making false statements for firearms
purchase |
 |
Diamond Rio to Headline Rehab 2011 Telethon |
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Grand Jury Indicts Accused Fire Station Thief |
 |
Stamford ISD Teacher Resigns Amid Claims of Student Relationship |
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Indictment for Transgender Accused of Fondling Boy |
 |
The Forge Restaurant is Running, but is it Successful?
|
 |
12/08/2010
|
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Abilene sales tax receipts UP 7.5% over Nov. 2009 (Oct. consumer activity) |
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Sales tax increase for city of Abilene largest bump in two years |
 |
Neugebauer Calls Food Safety Bill A Power Grab |
 |
12 Days of Free Holiday Activities in Abilene |
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Burglar Busted Inside Trash Can |
 |
Local Business Sick Of Trash Being Tossed Behind Shop
|
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Growing Number of Improper Relationships between Teachers & Students |
 |
Car Burglar Interrupted by Victim's Friend
- anti-wimp but be armed before doing this |
 |
Woodson teen happy Air Evac was there when he needed them |
 |
Another Abilene Business Closing its Doors
- if these people properly advertised they'd be doing much better. Always
the mistake of micro-business: penny-wise and pound-foolish. |
 |
Abilene Community Theatre dismisses director Barton |
 |
In Taylor County, donors offer kidney for kidney |
 |
Input wanted for South First Street project in Abilene |
 |
EPA issues emergency order against Texas gas driller |
 |
Abilene ISD earns only 2 of 5 Stars for Spending vs. Progress (FAST)
- should be no surprise to anyone.
See a FAST
report on your public school |
 |
The Lost Legend, the Ranger oil boom |
 |
FEMA Grants Big Bucks to Potosi VFD
|
 |
12/07/2010
|
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Woman Faces Losing Thousands as Abilene's Ashley Furniture Goes Under |
 |
Beautification Project Proposed for S. 1st Street |
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Abilene Petition Helps Move Project Forward |
 |
Arrested Cross Plains ISD teacher: Affadavit: 1 Night, 3 Students,
more |
 |
Mother of Missing Snyder Teen Speaks Out |
 |
It’s a wonderful life in Sweetwater |
 |
Thousands Expected at Free Turkey Dinner in Abilene tonight |
 |
Gas prices high for Abilene, but low for U.S. |
 |
In Abilene, your miseries are likely not the flu |
 |
EMS Gets Equipment to Help Lift Patients |
 |
Cisco Country Christmas Parade Winners |
 |
State Raids Another Abilene Mexican Restaurant |
 |
Brown Co. teenager confesses to multiple arsons
|
 |
12/06/2010
|
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Report: Abilene a place to call home for military retirees |
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Abilene ISD board to evaluate superintendent |
 |
Wylie school board to hear update on HVAC project |
 |
Soul of a Pearl Harbor survivor |
 |
Abilene Named Great Place for Military Retirement |
 |
Cisco Holiday Tour Of Homes is Thursday, 12/16 |
 |
Grass fire burns close to 800 acres near the Highland school |
 |
Neugebauer: Action On Taxes Could Happen This Week |
 |
All Eyes on Brownwood Lions This Friday
|
 |
12/04&05/2010
|
 |
Hardin-Simmons women’s soccer team wins national championship |
 |
1600 Acre Blaze Sweeps Through Nolan County |
 |
Mother Outraged After Her Child Was Un-Enrolled From Abilene-Cooper
|
 |
Sierra Club to hold press conference in Abilene to scare people |
 |
Pheasant hunts mean big money for little towns |
 |
Garden City thumps Follett for berth in state title game |
 |
Throckmorton back in state title game |
 |
Stace Smith Pro Rodeo Wins
Stock Contractor Award in Vegas |
 |
Tinsel and Trains returns to the Texas Theatre in Sweetwater |
 |
Ashley Furniture Customers Still Waiting for Answers |
 |
Coleman Celebrates Coach on 80th Birthday |
 |
Westlake Hills Residents Up in Arms Over Coyote Problem |
 |
Carver neighborhood receives free portraits |
 |
Freedom of flight: Man builds airplane piece by piece in backyard |
 |
Abilene man invited to play Grand Ole Opry
|
 |
12/03/2010
|
 |
Sen. Hutchison Plans Visit to Dyess Today |
 |
Landtroop and other House freshmen get peek at Texas-type government
|
 |
Rep. Susan King makes stop in Sweetwater |
 |
Retailer Ashley owes $235K in taxes to state |
 |
Ashley's HomeStore Owner Dies from Gunshot Wound |
 |
The Struggle Ashley's Owner Faced |
 |
Furniture Store Owner Talks About Twists and Turns in Industry |
 |
The History of the Food Bank of West Central Texas |
 |
Megan Dobbs Named New KRBC Co-Anchor |
 |
Massive 50-Foot Christmas Tree Lit Above Abilene |
 |
Dog Groomer Cleared to Move into Church |
 |
Parking tickets help pay for crossing guards in Abilene |
 |
Col. Adam Andrews: Remembering Pearl Harbor |
 |
Early robotics squads headed to state |
 |
Political wrangling over wind energy tax credits more for show, LCU prof
says |
 |
Ranger Christmas Parade Tonight |
 |
8 Charged in Stolen Mail Conspiracy in Abilene, Lubbock and Amarillo |
 |
Donors Double Amount Stolen from Salvation Army |
 |
Fake inspection stickers are on the rise in Williamson County
|
 |
Head of Winters ISD Steps Down |
 |
Teacher Accused of Sexual Relationship with Three Students
|
 |
12/02/2010
|
 |
State Rep. Susan King to tour District 71 |
 |
Texas lawmakers discuss renewable energy at Abilene conference |
 |
Wall Street Journal Features Abilene Teen's Tastes |
 |
Abilene Woman Continues Her Wait for Chairs from Ashley Furniture |
 |
Owner of closed Ashley's Furniture stores critically wounded, self-inflicted
gun shot authorities say |
 |
New Driving Rules for Abilene Christian Univ. Vehicles |
 |
Bakery Break-In, Thieves Steal Dough
|
 |
6-man state semifinal (Motley Co. vs. Sterling City) to be played in
Sweetwater's Mustang Bowl |
 |
Grass Fire Burns 298 Acres |
 |
Willie Takes Stage in Abilene Tonight |
 |
Tye Company Waiting On Permit To Hire People |
 |
Soda sales in Abilene schools going flat
- so how's that helped test scores? |
 |
Infamous inmate, Jeffs, big news for Big Lake |
 |
Warren offers $318,000 for lone Zoo-kini's restaurant in Abilene
|
 |
12/01/2010
|
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Pratt on "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" versus "Merry Christmas" |
 |
Abilene Council's Vote Important for Upcoming Lake Projects |
 |
New Taylor County Commissioner was fired in '09
- & the local newspaper just learned this! What a laugh - it was discussed
on Pratt on Texas some time ago. |
 |
Christmas Donations Needed for Abilene Homeless
Adults - that's right, give 'em
something one time a year and feel good about yourself. |
 |
Homeless children identified by Abilene ISD so they may receive help |
 |
Despite recession, Abilene private school sees
rise in students - hmm, I wonder
why?! |
 |
Rash of Car Break-Ins Overnight in Abilene |
 |
Same Man Suspected in Abilene, Eastland Break-Ins |
 |
Night Watchman Catches Bank Burglars In The Act
|
 |
Artist to Donate Sculpture to the City of Abilene |
 |
Phase Two to Begin Soon at Highland ISD |
 |
Beyond the Book: Hamlin ISD Playground |
 |
Abilene-Cooper Pep Squad Member Admits to Shoplifting, Speaks Out |
 |
Roscoe DARE has culmination ceremony |
 |
Diabetes cases to swell in Taylor County |
 |
Abilene, Plainview accounting firms merge |
 |
New Ranger College Sign |
 |
Ranger's Boil Water Notice Rescinded |
 |
Authorities Seize Ashley HomeStore in Wichita Falls
|
 |
11/30/2010
|
 |
Ex-Employee Investigated for Missing TSTC Funds |
 |
ACU Talks About Concealed Weapons On Campus
- ACU is private and would still be
able to stupidly ban firearms on its campus if Campus Concealed Carry passes
in the Legislature. Why would the want to make themselves open
targets? |
 |
HSU Takes Energy Saving Approach in Lighting Christmas Tree |
 |
Personal Wind Turbine Presents Challenges for Blackwell CISD
- let's see the full budget and see if it is actually providing any
significant savings. |
 |
Roscoe ISD Stands by Abstinence-Only Policy |
 |
Crook Rams Store With Truck, Leaves Behind Blood |
 |
Fire Forces Four from Abilene Home |
 |
Ranger Under "Boil Water Notice" |
 |
One killed, one injured in rollover crash in Nolan County |
 |
Stopping at 'flashing yellow light' leads to DWI arrest |
 |
Grass fire reported in Potosi |
 |
Ashley Furniture store closings leaves trail of doubt
|
 |
Ashley
Responds, Calling Self "Good Samaritan" |
 |
New airport restaurant takes flight today |
 |
American, Texas Flags Stolen from Brownwood High School |
 |
Neugebauer Wants To Cut Funding For Bureau Of
Consumer Financial Protection - &
he's right, no matter what these libs think. |
 |
Abilene Zoo-Kini's
to remain open "until it can be sold" |
 |
City of Eastland Surplus Auction |
 |
Abilene Zoo Says "Bye Bye" to Bison
|
 |
11/29/2010
|
 |
Half-Off
Pets Through New Years Eve at Abilene Animal Shelter
- half-off the price, not just half of the pet. |
 |
Night Club Customer Bites Bouncer |
 |
Brownwood Christmas Parade Moved Due to Playoffs |
 |
NRA and Lubbock Teen Team Up to Challenge Gun Laws |
 |
Strawn Tour Of Homes |
 |
Hardin-Simmons University adding degree in theater |
 |
Neugebauer on WikiLeaks: How Did This Happen? |
 |
Randy Neugebauer's traveling office to be in Eastland on Thursday |
 |
Eatery to Open Tuesday at Abilene Airport |
 |
DC: Thornberry says Obama's pay freeze proposal is a start
|
 |
Rural Meth Distribution Busted in Taylor County |
 |
Willie's Pot Arrest Won't Affect Thursday's Concert in Abilene |
 |
Legal Case Advances for Abilene Cooper Student, District Responds
|
 |
11/24-28/2010
|
 |
Abilene Christian upset by Central Missouri |
 |
Carroll overpowers Abilene HS, ailing Ronnell Sims in 2nd half |
 |
Denton Guyer offense unstoppable in rout of Abilene Cooper |
 |
Abilene Cooper Band performs in Cowboy Stadium for first time |
 |
Albany Brookshire's Moves Whipped Cream To Locked Case |
 |
Texas Theater in Sweetwater Opens for the Weekend |
 |
69 cotton modules burn at Haskell gin,
more |
 |
Abilene Restaurant Burns |
 |
Breckenridge man perishes in house fire |
 |
Ashley Furniture Shuts Doors in Abilene, San Angelo & Wichita Falls |
 |
Sweetwater & Dumas receive wind energy expansion award |
 |
TSTC mobile wind training unit put to work |
 |
WTxHITREC to help health care providers adopt e-records in West Texas |
 |
Baird bank keeps up with customers' changing needs
|
 |
Famed Canadian Brass to play in Abilene |
 |
TTU's Hance: Taking a Texas-sized stand against cancer |
 |
HSU international students enjoy the most American holiday
|
 |
11/24/2010
|
 |
Long Weekend for City of Abilene Employees |
 |
Abilene moves up in crime rankings |
 |
Home Births on the Rise in the Big Country |
 |
Abilene Walmarts Selling Same Items for Two Prices |
 |
How Much Saturday's Games Will Set You Back |
 |
Abilene ISD superintendent expects wise decisions by students in Arlington |
 |
Chase Ends at HSU, Two Women Arrested,
more |
 |
Neugebauer's weekly newsletter (TX19) |
 |
Neugebauer Continues His Campaign Against “Biggest Tax Hike In American
History” |
 |
Coleman Senior Center
burglary results in loss of raffle funds |
 |
Ag Chemical Day set for Dec. 2 at Stephens County Ag Barn |
 |
TEA 2010 District Gold awards for Sweetwater ISD |
 |
Nolan Co. courthouse to undergo landscaping work |
 |
Counterfeit Cash Turning Up Around Abilene
|
 |
11/23/2010
|
 |
Cosmetics maker considers Abilene plant |
 |
Hirschfeld lays off 15 workers at Abilene plant
- covered on Pratt on Texas yesterday |
 |
Taylor commissioners are planning for two sessions |
 |
AISD, police quiet on Cooper student issues at game |
 |
150 Applicants Ups the Ante for the Abilene Fire Department |
 |
Clyde VFD Gets New Station |
 |
Fifteen Dogs Rescued From Blaze Await Owner's Return |
 |
New Cisco College-Abilene expansion is heavy into health |
 |
HSU roping legend Cockrell dies at 77 |
 |
NPR show thanks Abilene |
 |
Breckenridge woman dies in Parker County crash |
 |
Mall of Abilene sees higher occupancy, foot traffic |
 |
Taylor County Jail Getting New Roof |
 |
Model Homes Broken Into. Big Named Items Taken. |
 |
Work Underway for Newest Bank in Albany |
 |
McMurry University's Sevant Leadership Program for Fifth Graders
|
 |
11/22/2010
|
 |
HD83
& 85 rep-elects Perry & Landtroop endorse Paxton for Speaker |
 |
'Nutcracker' thrills crowd, family with three cast members |
 |
Coach Ron Berry still going strong in Cisco |
 |
Snyder Football Player Overcomes Autism on the Field |
 |
Fire Destroys Home in Clyde |
 |
HSU Grad To Become Youngest To Climb Mount Kilamanjaro |
 |
Youth football 'Super Bowls' featured at big Abilene stadiums |
 |
Hirschfeld lays off 75 workers, 15 in Abilene |
 |
Cooper Pep Squad Girls Accused of Shoplifting
|
 |
11/20&21/2010
|
 |
3 Cooper football players removed from team for rules violation |
 |
Abilene ISD teams featured in Saturday tripleheader |
 |
Clyde officials plan grass-roots effort to boost
school funding - no amount of money
will ever be considered adequate by people such as Gail Haterius, no amount. |
 |
Pictorial history shows scenes of early Abilene
|
 |
Santa Arrives In Abilene |
 |
Camp Barkeley dog park now open in Abilene
- watch where you step |
 |
New Degree Offered at Hardin-Simmons University
|
 |
Tenaska donates to United Way |
 |
Sweetwater FD receives donations |
 |
Brownwood Areas Finally Getting A Good Cleanup
|
 |
11/19/2010 - Show is live from Abilene
today, come by & say hello at The Leaf 1054 N. 3rd |
 |
October employment numbers released: Abilene unemployment UP to 6.3%
from 6.2% in September |
 |
Abilene car dealers a little more optimistic on future |
 |
Dyess AFB wins top awards at Global Strike Challenge |
 |
Hawley ISD Investigating Coach-Student Relationship |
 |
Texas State Technical College Reports Financial "Inconsistencies" to Texas
Rangers |
 |
Congressman Randy Neugebauer To Visit Eastland |
 |
Cisco
Fire Department Receives Donation |
 |
Ranger College Winter Concert December 1st |
 |
Behind the Veil: How One Muslim Woman Keeps Her Faith |
 |
Abilene Woman Prays With Robber Before Meeting Demands |
 |
Abilene Non-Profit Working With a Local University in Helping the Community |
 |
Sidewalk Project Gets Shut Down: Visually Impaired Residents Concerned |
 |
Brownwood's talented receiver-returner Shipley keeps it humble |
 |
Coleman Moves Forward with K-2 Ban |
 |
Sweetwater Seeks New Stadium Turf -
oh so broke school districts
|
 |
11/18/2010 - Show is live from Abilene
today, come by & say hello at The Leaf 1054 N. 3rd |
 |
Three Eastland Car Dealers Burglarized |
 |
City of Abilene Says Funeral Home Doesn't Have to Build Sidewalk |
 |
Abilene PD Homicide Division Lacking Experience? |
 |
Council to consider accepting ammo bid |
 |
Suit may not nix term limits in Big Spring |
 |
Massive Rattler in Coleman: Real or Hoax? -
Hoax, read here. |
 |
Time Lapse: Extreme Makeover Home in Wellman |
 |
Abilene couple to help in 'Extreme Makeover' |
 |
New Security Measures at Abilene Regional Airport |
 |
Police Investigating New Theft Sweeping Across Abilene |
 |
TX13: Dyer: Campaign finance reports not required |
 |
TX11: Conaway didn't set out to be ethics cop
|
 |
11/17/2010 |
 |
Balanced budget without tax increases vowed by
Texas house speaker, in Abilene |
 |
Pratt: Straus prevaricates for convenience, loses credibility
- I truly was ready to give him the benefit of the doubt but I cannot
tolerate those who don't just spin but lie directly to the press and public. |
 |
Big Country higher ed faces lower budgets |
 |
Suspect Arrested in Brutal Callahan County Murder Case |
 |
Man Robs Dairy Queen with Pocket Knife |
 |
Eubanks' many hats: TV show host enjoys Abilene visit |
 |
ACU, freelancer in dispute over use of photographs |
 |
Strawn: New Policy For Tucker Lake |
 |
Coleman Community
Coalition Type B EDC open for business |
 |
Big Spring ISD bond selling options weighed |
 |
Move to Bangs like coming home for city administrator |
 |
Ranger ready for nursing instruction |
 |
Eastland Hears Fire Department Cost Accounting Program |
 |
Ice Road Trucker Visits Abilene To Promote Book
|
 |
11/16/2010 |
 |
Claim: Abilene ISD has more than 200 "homeless"
children - bull |
 |
Suspicious Fire Burns Roscoe-area Ranch to the Ground |
 |
Abilene City Leaders Tour Site of Future Reservoir |
 |
TCSO: Customer Tries to Run Over Gas Station Manager |
 |
Customer Threatens Worker With a Knife at Gas Station |
 |
Abilene Street Plagued by Motorcycle Racing |
 |
State Officials Tour Brownwood Schools |
 |
Santa Anna Foundation
Applies for Texas Historic Cemetery Marker |
 |
Gordon Library Appreciation Day |
 |
Home sales fall sharply in Abilene |
 |
Sidewalk waiver is Abilene council's focus |
 |
House Speaker Straus Tours Big Country Today |
 |
Hardin-Simmons' Cowboys football coach Keeling retires after 21 years |
 |
Another buyer found for Furr's site, deal not yet finalized |
 |
Big Spring Mayor Duncan Declares Monday Jody Nix Day
|
 |
11/15/2010 |
 |
Neugebauer: Do No Harm In Lame-Duck Session |
 |
Study: Global Warming Will Impact Wind Power Industry |
 |
Police Chief Proposes K-2 Ban in Snyder |
 |
Abilene PD: Arrested for Cussing? |
 |
Lack's to file Chapter 11 petition, close all stores within 75 days -
OR,
Obama admin. policies shut down Texas business |
 |
Man Found Living in Patient's Empty Home in Snyder
|
 |
11/13&14/2010 |
 |
Support for Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center debatable |
 |
Dealership Break-ins Continue, Honda Hit Again |
 |
Church Trailer Missing, Suspected Theft |
 |
Abilene airport works to land eatery |
 |
Dozens Plunge into Frigid Water For Good Cause |
 |
Abilene Zoo director sees potential in local facility |
 |
Brown County welcomes new AgriLife Extension agent |
 |
Albany Looking to Restrict Sex Offenders
|
 |
Jim Ned CISD: Parents Pull Student from School After Bullying |
 |
Texas Indian artifacts displayed at De Leon show |
 |
Abilene student, 7, wins trip to to accessible theme park
|
 |
11/12/2010
|
 |
Student's letter contests ACU's view of gay-straight group |
 |
35th annual Christmas in November coming to Abilene |
 |
Holiday Home Tour Begins Tomorrow |
 |
ArtWalk art has variety |
 |
Abilene Woman Burned Alive Reunites With Nurses Who Saved Her |
 |
Webcast: Two Arrested in Fast Food Holdup |
 |
Child Sexual Assault Makes 3rd Arrest in a Month for Brownwood man |
 |
Man Charged With Child Porn Reports Laptop Theft Day Before |
 |
Early ISD Considers Random Testing for K-2 |
 |
Snyder Defeats Graham in Overtime Thriller, 28-21 |
 |
3A playoffs: Brownwood sets scoring record with 88-24 rout |
 |
Sweetwater Christian School honor Mr. Cyrus Dale McCreight |
 |
Lubbock firm hired to manage Big Spring ISD construction projects |
 |
Big Spring ISD officials dispel rumor of gun, shooting at high school |
 |
UIL athletic director discusses budget, more |
 |
New Tanker for Wayland VFD |
 |
Olson named Citizen of the Year in Breckenridge |
 |
Business Is Booming In Strawn
- Mary's Cafe is among my favorite spots in Texas |
 |
Estimated cotton yields reduced by USDA |
 |
Worth the Drive: Monahans Sandhills |
 |
Coleman Co. Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Deadly Crash
|
 |
11/11/2010
Veterans' Day see stories in
the Texans at War section |
 |
Sweetwater remembers all of its veterans,
more,
more,
more |
 |
List of Abilene Veterans Day Events |
 |
Veterans Day: She finds a place with Six White Horses |
 |
Doctor recalls horrors of war in Vietnam |
 |
Veterans Day: Tearful tribute in Winters |
 |
City Of Eastland Plans Veterans Day Ceremony |
 |
Cisco College expansion in Abilene starting |
 |
Big Spring man earns 87 months in prison on child porno charge |
 |
Hawley bans synthetic marijuana, also known as K2 |
 |
Mt. Zion Baptist Church begins celebration of 125th year in Abilene |
 |
TEA rating for Albany remains Unacceptable |
 |
Coleman County Schools to Be "Tech" Examples in Texas |
 |
Ride 'em, cowgirl: ACHS student gets scholarship to Georgia |
 |
AISD plans to demolish Franklin Middle School |
 |
Grandson of tobacco magnate campaigns against
smoking - OK, so he sold his tobacco
stock in 1979, did he give away all of the proceeds? He is an enemy of
Liberty, his campaign is not just to encourage folk not to smoke but
supports government intervention. |
 |
Man Who Kicked Out Brownwood Cop Car Window Busted in Philly |
 |
Elderly couple goes missing soon after moving from Abilene to Dallas
|
 |
Conaway associated with event featuring Gingrich |
 |
Report: Abilene's $60K Payments to Lobbyists |
 |
Why Genghis Grill Isn't Close to Opening
- good for you. I went to the new one in Lubbock and walked out after being
treated terribly rude. Went next door to Logan's and had a fine lunch.
|
 |
11/10/2010
|
 |
Abilene sales tax up 2.23% in November report (consumer activity in
September) |
 |
City Council Gets Input from Community on Possible Cuts |
 |
Public voices budget ideas before Abilene City Council
- It is immoral to force others to pay money to subsidize the hobbies of
others. And as to the library, Abilene is very small and compact, branch
libraries are not a necessity. |
 |
Break-ins at Electric Companies Linked to Other Robberies? |
 |
Abilene Dog Park Nears Completion |
 |
5 Confirmed Scabies Cases Found in Cross Plains ISD |
 |
TABC tries to sting Abilene stores on alcohol sales |
 |
Gordon Flushes Sewer Rumors |
 |
National WASP Museum to have 5K run |
 |
Changes Coming to Sweetwater Juvenile Curfew Policy |
 |
Eagle Railcar to expand business in Sweetwater |
 |
Youth who died in Manvel treatment center is from Howard Co. |
 |
Howard County to review sick-leave policy |
 |
Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting, Banquet and Auction set |
 |
Roscoe State Bank elects Riggs as new board member |
 |
Brown County Enters "Mild Drought" Stage |
 |
Farm policy forum in D.C. discusses soda tax |
 |
Sen. Fraser files bill requiring photo ID to vote |
 |
List of Local Veterans Day Events |
 |
Big
Spring City Council Passes Idea of City Health Inspector
|
 |
Touring the
Abilene Cultural District |
 |
What's Next for the Vacant Airport Gift Shop |
 |
TX27:
Watchers needed for paper ballot recounts (possible). Please call the
Farenthold campaign to volunteer: 888-882-5253
|
 |
11/09/2010
|
 |
African Royalty Visits Abilene |
 |
McMurry Opponent's Locker Room Ransacked During Game |
 |
Big Spring council meeting a circus? |
 |
Redistricting plan: Abilene leaders, residents want to have city stitched
together |
 |
Abilene council seeks input on possible cutbacks |
 |
Abilene Educational Supply and Christian Bookstore to close after 66 years |
 |
Don Dudley, former Taylor Co. commissioner, dead at 79 |
 |
Brian Nutter pens letter to Neugebauer
- Neugebauer's record is pretty much this way. Also he was an incumbent, not
just elected so while the point is a good one it doesn't exactly apply. |
 |
Hiring of Early city secretary on council’s agenda tonight |
 |
Neugebauer Pessimistic About Unemployment |
 |
UFO Hunter Tracks Strange Lights over Abilene |
 |
Big
Spring Settles Hotel Renovator's Planning to Renovate Ritz Theatre |
 |
On the Road with
TCA: Abilene |
 |
Why 57% Say They "Hate Abilene"
- other than teenagers, many of whom would hate anywhere they live, the rest
are insulting themselves. We live in a free society, if you hate where you
live it says far more about you that you haven't moved than about the place.
|
 |
11/08/2010
|
 |
Pratt:
Immigration Reform I'd support |
 |
Students can apply through Neugebauer for service academies |
 |
ACU poll: 36% of Sweetwater residents oppose the proposed Tenaska energy
plant,
more |
 |
Santa Anna Man Recovers Veteran's Tombstone |
 |
Sweetwater Considers City-Wide Curfew for Minors |
 |
Sweetwater's Mustang Bowl to host playoff games |
 |
Improvements Coming to Coleman Emergency Dispatch |
 |
Utility funds help is scarce in Abilene area |
 |
Abilene ISD board to award honors |
 |
TSTC Board names Reeser as Chancellor
|
 |
11/05-07/2010
|
 |
Abilene PD Promotes First African American to Sergeant |
 |
Abilene ISD Takes Action to Keep Students in
School - and then educate them |
 |
Training Exercise Torches Aircraft at Dyess |
 |
City Of Eastland Plans Veterans Day Ceremony |
 |
Kholer plant in Brownwood plant loses 88 positions |
 |
Landmark in Gorman Up In Smoke, restaurant burns on opening night |
 |
Ensey squeaks out win for Stephens County Clerk |
 |
Hawley Honors Football Coach Battling Cancer |
 |
Abilene woman posts bond in aggravated kidnap case |
 |
Mexico vacation turned nightmare after Abilene man arrested |
 |
Dress codes help keep school disruptions to a minimum |
 |
Wylie ISD dress code |
 |
Ranger To Ban K-2 |
 |
Drug shortages affecting local physicians, patients |
 |
Deer plenty on first day, even if hunters miss targets |
 |
Cedar Gap man lives cheaply, in harmony with environment |
 |
Novice again a part of highest scoring football game in Texas
|
 |
11/04/2010 |
 |
Deer season opens Saturday with hunters optimistic |
 |
Merkel Water Still Not Safe to Drink |
 |
Bull Riding World Competition Coming to Abilene |
 |
'Death Row' Pets up for Adoption Fri, Sat |
 |
Flu Flops in Abilene, Cold Plunders |
 |
Gov. Perry's book talks about his Big Country roots |
 |
KRBC's Stephanie Harris & husband Rob Mooring to move to California |
 |
Leon Boles Memorial Gun, Knife, & Coin Show in Cisco |
 |
Planning underway for annual Ranger Christmas Parade |
 |
Abilene Community Foundation, Big Country Hall of Fame announce two
scholarship endowments |
 |
Double S Ranch in Maryneal joins Angus Association |
 |
Nolan County Jail passes inspection |
 |
Many respond to grass fire near Sweetwater |
 |
Foster promoted at First Financial Bank in Sweetwater |
 |
Sign makers report slow election-related sales |
 |
Voters' knockout punch comes with straight-party votes |
 |
Clyde stores prepare for alcohol sales
|
 |
11/03/2010 |
 |
Republican Kyle Kendrick defeats Tucker for
Taylor Co. Commissioner, Pct. 2 |
 |
HD71: Susan King wins re-election 88.07% to 11.92% over Libertarian |
 |
Susan King Reelected to Texas House |
 |
HD85: Landtroop trounces Democrat Joe Heflin 61.62% to 38.37% |
 |
Landtroop topples incumbent Heflin |
 |
Neugebauer doesn't expect changes to committee roles |
 |
Big Country voters approve new Shackelford County jail, Clyde alcohol sales |
 |
Republican West
Retains Spot as Brown County's Judge |
 |
Abilene City Council seeks input on budget trimming |
 |
Abilene Man Shot Dead During Dispute |
 |
Authorities Discover Skull in Jones County Field |
 |
Breckenridge man
Killed in Crash Discovered after 11 Hours
|
 |
11/02/2010
Election Day in Texas |
 |
It's all over now but the voting |
 |
Neugebauer confident in Americans |
 |
Abilene ISD loses appeal of academic rating
- don't buy the excuses. How is it any better to admit that even if they are
right, they are so near the bottom ledge of quality that a few students can
plunge them into the abyss. |
 |
Merkel expects water test results today |
 |
OmniAdvantage takes flight, bases are in Snyder & Abilene |
 |
Missing Girl from Odessa Might Be in Big Country |
 |
Abilene DWIs Approach 550 |
 |
Liquor Sales on the Ballot in Clyde |
 |
T-Shirts to Help Fallen Officer's Family |
 |
Oil Exploration in Abilene? |
 |
The Cisco Writers Club Early Thanksgiving is Tonight |
 |
West Texas Children’s Advocacy Center helps local children |
 |
First Financial deal finalized for Huntsville bank |
 |
Abilene man attempts to go year without news |
 |
Knox City reverend's wife, 91, dies |
 |
Brownwood Kiwanis Club’s ‘pancake pros’ put skills to use for 58th year |
 |
Slideshow: New C-130J Arrives at Dyess AFB
|
 |
11/01/2010 |
 |
Pratt: Election shows problem with local newspapers |
 |
Taylor Appoints New Tax Assessor after 26 Years |
 |
Body Found In South Abilene ,
more |
 |
Snyder Residents Evacuated After Gas Leak |
 |
$5.8 Million Bond on Shackelford Ballot
|
 |
Wind Power Industry Hurting In 2010 |
 |
2 schools dedicate memorial gardens |
 |
Club members have a blast with science |
 |
Abilene police blotter: Man arrested on weapons charges |
 |
TX19's Neugebauer: GOP Can’t Repeal Obamacare with Obama in White House |
 |
Dyess Air Force Base Joins Social Media |
 |
New C-130J Aircraft to Arrive Tuesday at Dyess AFB |
 |
Tenaska Power Plant Celebrating 10 Years in Grimes Co. |
 |
Gordon Longhorns Pee Wee State Champs |
 |
Boil Water Notice Issued in Merkel |
 |
Abilene
ISD appeal of 'academically unacceptable' rating denied
|
 |
10/30&31/2010 |
 |
Wanted Man Recaptured, Back in Hospital |
 |
Neighbors Nervous Over New Zoning |
 |
Cross-Town Showdown: The Day After |
 |
Nov. 2 vote: Local races lacking drama
- and you've done damn little to report on them too! You can interview
candidates and ask questions and then print more than one little piece in
the paper. |
 |
Abilene streets empty of candy-seekers Saturday
- Halloween is Sunday morons. |
 |
Van Cliburn gold-medal winner teaches, inspires pianists in Abilene |
 |
There are plenty of deer for hunters, maybe too many |
 |
Annual Tent Revival Serves Community |
 |
HD85: candidates see big boosts from PACs in 11th hour |
 |
HD85: Libs at Abilene newspaper endorse Democrat
Helfin, lie about Landtroop's campaign and message
- editors have joined in the lies |
 |
And, of course, the Abilene paper endorses White for Gov.
|
 |
10/29/2010 |
 |
Taylor early voting continues to outpace 2006
- everywhere else too |
 |
Early Voting Across Texas Ends Friday |
 |
United Way & IBM Bring New Technology To Day Nursery of Abilene |
 |
How Reyes Escaped from Hendrick Before Getting Arrested |
 |
Stamford Neighbors React to Wanted Man's Disappearance |
 |
City Cracks Down on Repeat Traffic Offenders |
 |
Abilene One Step Closer to a First Responder Program |
 |
Texting While Driving Causes Major Hang-Up for Law Enforcement - traffic deaths are at an all time low |
 |
List of Haunted Houses around Abilene |
 |
Taylor Co. commissioner candidates finally spend election money
|
 |
Congressman Conaway in
Coleman today, 1:45pm |
 |
Ranger native is new CCA executive director |
 |
Ex-teammates in youth football to clash in AHS vs. CHS showdown |
 |
Family's Abilene trip fulfills dream
|
 |
10/28/2010 |
 |
Abilene Dog Park Nearly Complete |
 |
Four Abilene car dealerships were hit by burglars overnight |
 |
Standardized Online Address Database in Abilene |
 |
APD: Man Found to Have $3,000 in Parking Tickets |
 |
Local leaders: Preserve our clout in
redistricting - you cannot change
one-man, one-vote. |
 |
Woman Shocked to Get $1,800 Electric Bill
- a special edition of Pratt on Texas
will explain Smart Meters sometime soon |
 |
Abilene Soldier Nominates her Boss for Award |
 |
State Board Approves RN for Ranger College |
 |
Man Who Stabbed Stephenville Mother Gets 20 Years |
 |
Eastland Rotary Club Brings Dictionaries for 3rd Graders |
 |
Two jailed in Sweetwater crack house raid |
 |
Cattle collusion accusations debated |
 |
Roscoe gets loan for water facility; 100% is forgiven |
 |
HD85: Race draws donors from wide area
- Landtroop had almost double the number of in-district donors as Heflin in
the last report |
 |
Parolee hobbles away from Abilene hospital in gown -- with broken leg, IV
|
 |
10/27/2010 |
 |
City Council Allocates $80,000 for Address
Database - hmmm? |
 |
Great Turnout for Early Voting as of Tuesday |
 |
Boy Scouts honor Canon of Dodge Jones Foundation |
 |
Cross Plains Students Help Orphans in Darfur |
 |
Benched Players Back on Early Football Team |
 |
Hospitalized by Alternative to Marijuana |
 |
Convicted Killer Leads Police on High-Speed Chase in Knox Co.,
more |
 |
Eastland Chamber Upcoming Workshops |
 |
Victim IDs man who stabbed her in Stephenville park |
 |
Oil field opposes Obama intent to repeal tax break |
 |
Two Arrested in Drug, Counterfeit Bust |
 |
Tom Green County Constables Conduct Child Support Roundup |
 |
Eastland County Jail Activity |
 |
Sweetwater Mayor hosts reception for Texas Land Commissioner
|
 |
Breckenridge Parents Concerned about Locker Room Behavior |
 |
Nearly 120 gather for Abilene redistricting hearing
|
 |
10/26/2010 |
 |
State Redistricting Committee hearing in Abilene tomorrow (Wed.) |
 |
HD85: 8-day out report has
Landtroop
raising $396,565.36 in the period 9/24 to 10/23 and spending $130,675.34
with $146,340.32 on-hand.
Heflin
raised $301,751.08, spent $89,806.14 and had $55.592.00 on-hand. |
 |
HD85:
Heflin get
$5000 from gambling-pushers "Chickasaw Nation" of Ada, Oklahoma. |
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HD85: Lib-Trial Lawyer Mostyn of Houston gives $137,250 to Heflin |
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HD85:
Burka: Late afternoon poll rumors shows Helfin down by 10 points |
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Neugebauer: Application Deadlines Near For Service Academy, other,
Appointments |
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Texas Tech's Fibertect® selected as top innovation by Cotton Incorporated |
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Crop insurance doesn't cover everything for cotton farmers |
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Oil, gas drilling rules may change in Abilene |
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Dry hole was beginning of oil, gas in Abilene area |
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Abilene Council: Ban on synthetic marijuana
should be left to state - I agree,
this patchwork of what is legal here and there leads to a general decline in
the Rule of Law. |
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Group seeks K2 ban in Abilene |
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Three More Cities Move to Ban K-2, Abilene Holds Off |
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Abilene's economy is in top 25 of small U.S. cities |
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Fire claims Abilene home valued at $75,000 |
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Report: Man arrested after yelling profanities, lunging at cars |
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Medical marijuana trial postponed |
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City of Winters Employees Keep Regular Hours |
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Nolan Co.makes new appointments |
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Sweetwater ISD hosted public forum on uniforms ("standard attire") |
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Clyde ISD Opens New Auditorium |
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Superbowl Check Arrives for Ben Richy Boy's Ranch |
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Thieves Cut Fuel Lines in Breckenridge Mail Trucks |
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Howard College Honors Rodeo National Champion |
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Howard College Breaks Ground on New Agriculture Pavilion |
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Mayor to Abilene: Get Your Rangers On!
- what? |
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Ranger College Day Of Champions
|
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10/25/2010 |
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Fiddler on the Roof to be in Abilene
- congrats to Abilene Listener Club member Greg
S. for winning tickets from Pratt on Texas to see Fiddler on the Roof.
Join the Listener Club today! |
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Ku Klux Klan engaged in get-out-the-vote efforts
in Abilene - just like the League of
Women Voters and all the other groups. Hmmm, should we praise this bunch
too!? An uninformed vote is worse than no vote all. Encouraging everyone,
even know-nothings, to vote is silly, no matter who does it. |
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Tea
Party tour rallies Abilene crowd |
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Neugebauer: No More $ For NPR, Maybe PBS |
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Rivals team up to help Abilene Cooper coach with cancer |
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Wylie headed to UIL state contest |
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Abilene Police Report: Counterfeit bills pushed |
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Man Chases Abilene Teens Out of Home
- they are fortunate he did not shoot them |
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Gas Prices Drop, Believe It or Not |
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Train Derailment Blocks Brownwood Road Sunday |
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Gordon Pee Wee Football Team Advances To State |
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Lefty-Farmers Union folk meet with officials in D.C. |
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Eastland Chamber Upcoming Workshops |
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Sweetwater ISD Officials Hold Meeting to Discuss Uniforms Monday |
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South 14th Resurfacing to Begin Next Week in Abilene |
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Democrat Bill White to Appear in Abilene today |
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BCH Sports to Cash in on AHS Victory Over Midland |
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New weapon in coal plant fight: water |
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Brownwood Bed & Breakfast named one of "America's Coziest" |
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Ranger to Consider K-2 Ban |
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Late season storm sends Panhandle cotton farmers reeling |
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Gorman Man Shot at Stephenville Park
|
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10/23&24/2010 |
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Capital Improvement Program unaffected by funds elimination |
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Abilene's city budget contains no capital expenditures from general fund |
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Fisher County man suffers shotgun wound |
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Fire Crews Battle Blaze in Rain at Flying J Truck Stop |
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Abilene woman shoots agitated intruder in self defense
- an anti-wimp! |
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University Officials Gather for TBUG Conference |
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Crowell-based nonprofit may take over weatherization work |
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Abilene woman wins World Series tickets |
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Elmdale Flea Market retains old-school charm |
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White will court Abilene voters again Monday |
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Abilene celebrates Rangers' first-ever World Series trip |
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HSU hands Texas Lutheran first home loss with rout |
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Former Abilene Ruff Rider Quincy Carter arrested |
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Allsups
Clerk Says "No" to Man With Machete |
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Rain closes Abilene streets, cancels events |
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Rain doesn't hurt annual Boo at the Zoo |
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TX11: Conaway opposed by Democrat, Libertarian & Greenie |
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TX13: Thornberry opponent's eligibility adds interest to race,
candidate bios |
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TX19: congressional race flying under the radar,
candidate bios |
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Lubbock man crowned king of the West Texas Liars’ Contest
|
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10/22/2010 |
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Unemployment dip breaks 29-month streak for Abilene metro area |
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Earnings increase for First Financial Bankshares |
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See September employment report for all areas here |
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Tea Party Express IV: Liberty at the Ballot Box Tour in Abilene Sunday 10/23 |
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Breckenridge invest hope in SGR to find next City Manager |
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Breckenridge ISD purchases establishes 2010-2011 tax rate |
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Sweetwater ISD receives Superior rating, other issues discussed
|
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Nolan Co. pastors return from Brazil |
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ACU's Student Paper Named Among Top in US |
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Brownwood's Blockbuster Closing Its Doors |
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Sweetwater Man, 68, Indicted for Indecency with Children |
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Most benched Early players expected to suit out in game against Clyde |
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Cotton prices have farmers, gins singing in the Big Country |
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Severe storms sweeps through heart of cotton belt damaging crops |
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Man nabbed after pot text to Early police officer |
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Officials celebrate opening of Abilene Life Sciences Accelerator |
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Winters hires new city manager |
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Cameras focus on drivers who ignore school buses |
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HD84, 85 & 87: Voters have to see behind the façade in House races |
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Jail Escapee Formally Charged, Taylor Co. Sheriff Remains Mum
|
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10/21/2010 |
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West Texas may take hit with redistricting
- may? What is it about 1 man, 1 vote you don't get. It's not may, it is
"will". The area has not grown enough relative to other areas. |
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Abilene Apartment Evicts Sex Offender |
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Man Charged and Arrested for Child Porn in Abilene |
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Car Hit by Train West of Merkel |
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Ranger College to Start 'RN' Program in Spring |
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Twenty four indicted by Nolan Co. Grand Jury |
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Bob Livingston to perform in Sweetwater Friday |
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ACU Football Player Reunites With Father After 20 Years |
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With much at steak, local church hopes Texas locks up series |
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Abilene Zoo to host touch-tour presentation |
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Coal Looms Large for Democrat in Texas Governor's Race |
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Bio-Tech Building Opens for Business |
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McMurry Works to Settle on New Mascot |
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Eastland County Commissioners' Meeting |
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HD85’s Heflin: See-no-vote-fraud, Hear-no-vote-fraud |
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Big
Spring City Council to Hold Charter Amendment Public Meeting |
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Potosi woman shot by stray bullet in "bad shape" |
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Elderly Man Found Dead in Creek Bed |
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Convenience Store Robbery Suspects No-Billed |
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09/25&26/2010 |
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House Redistricting and Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence subcommittees will
be in Abilene on 10/27 |
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Taylor County Democrats host candidate meet & greet |
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After skies clear, balloons finally get airborne |
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Weather Delays Balloon Fest,
Weather Doesn't Dampen Mood at Big Country BalloonFest |
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Breckenridge bans K-2, raises taxes on residents |
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Sweetwater Healthcare remains open |
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Kansas Rocks HSU |
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Cooper alumni enjoy chance to celebrate |
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Cooper at 50: A high school born in boom times |
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Rain doesn't dampen enthusiasm at annual Pow Wow in Comanche |
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VOTEXAS 2010 Stops in Abilene |
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Ranger City Meeting |
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09/24/2010 |
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Crime report for Big Country mostly up |
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West Texas Municipal Water District GM to retire |
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Voice of a Legend: Brownwood radio's Dallas Huston |
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Abilene's Fehr Foods Group to be acquired in $84M deal |
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Atmos to boost rates in Abilene with City's blessing |
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Coleman City Council
approves Atmos rate increase |
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Abilene Cooper High School celebrating 50 years |
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Nashville songwriter will return to Sweetwater for homecoming |
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2010's AbileneBiz 20 Under 40 honorees named
- another one of these lists that contain non-business people who work for
government, quasi-government, or non-profits. They are NOT business people
and have a very different outlook on the size of government and tax policy. |
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45 sign up for TSTC's new Abilene culinary arts program |
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Bill White Makes Stop in Brownwood |
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Groundbreaking at Safety City for New Police Education Building |
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Kong Uncovers Part of City’s Past; Continues Covering Up Future |
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Abilene State School Makes "Substantial Progress" Toward Compliance |
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09/23/2010 |
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Neugebauer challenger, Wilson, for keeping Obamacare |
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Stolen Shrimp Stuffed in Bra |
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Suspects Lead Police on Foot Chase as KTAB Cameras Roll |
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Brownwood Realtor Passes Away, Community Rallies Behind the Family Left |
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Abilene ISD superintendent defends incentive pay for teachers |
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Feds talk to Jim Ned CISD coaches and kids |
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Jones County backs deal for pre-parole transfer facility |
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Abilene City Council approves resolution favoring Atmos increase, golf
course subsidy to be reviewed |
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Nolan Co. Angus breeder recognized |
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UpWind Solutions acquires assets of KCWG’s blade services business
|
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Big Spring water
reclamation plant (CRMWD) nearing construction |
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Blackwell rodeo includes chili cook-off |
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Study shows big companies favor public universities |
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09/22/2010 |
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Pratt: Courthouse
metal detectors a sign of a lost ethic |
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Clayton Williams urges 'fighting socialism' to Abilene oil, gas producers |
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Taylor commissioners OK county budget at the Effective Rate |
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Abilenians Advance to National Pool Championship |
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K2 Ban Coming to Eastland |
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16th Annual Big Country Balloon Fest is this weekend |
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Santa Anna
Ex Student Association Honors Three Alumni |
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Blue Agave Chili Cook-Off planned this weekend in Blackwell |
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APD: Suspects With Laundry List of Warrants Busted |
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Hardin Simmons New White Horses Riders |
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Property Values Go Up, But No Seller's Market |
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Federal education officials to interview Jim Ned coaches, students |
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Abilene Police Report: Teen arrested for evading arrest |
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Somber time at Coleman High after accident kills 1 |
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ACU Summit speakers: Christians, Muslims must
talk - we can talk after the bulk of
the Muslim world repudiates the call to convert, dominate or kill
non-Muslims and abandons the goal of converting governments to Muslim
states. |
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Parker County officials cracking down on Taylor Co. tickets |
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Ruling paves way for $10M accident payment |
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Roger Williams may have to wait, but not his campaign for Senate |
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Thornberry
Gold Star Parents Bill Passes the U.S. Senate |
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Podcast of Sept. 20 Eastland City Meeting |
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09/21/2010 |
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Details of Abilene ISD rating appeal emerge
- Shameful, they need to concentrate on fixing the schools not appealing the
rating they've earned. The bureaucracy just can't get priorities straight. |
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No tea for U.S. Rep. Conaway, locals say it's not necessary |
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HD85's Landtroop: Heflin Is Not The Conservative He Says He Is |
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HD85: Landtroop camp
launches "Do We Know Joe Heflin?" website |
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Abilene Watchdog Arrested for Records Tampering |
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Star grants announced in Abilene |
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Coleman teen killed in rollover Monday |
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Brown County man sentenced in murder-for-hire |
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Dad Arrested after Picking Up Kids, Meth |
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Hamlin Woman Offered Money for Sex by Intruder
- another reason to be armed |
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Winters Class of
1960 Celebrates 50th Reunion |
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Big Spring to adopt
tax rate |
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Breckenridge ISD board get update on Bilingual Education |
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Texas Department of
Agriculture Seeks Applications From Young Farmers and Ranchers for Funds to
Start of Expand Operations |
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Sweetwater's Texas
Theatre to open for touring |
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Cathi Ball Joins Eastland Centre for the Arts |
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New hangar, Eagle Aviation expansion are discussed
|
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09/20/2010 |
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Neugebauer Predicts One-Year Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts |
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Report: Massive child porn ring busted, Abilene man arrested |
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Abilene man was among those nabbed in porn bust as part of worldwide sting |
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Brownwood Reunion Celebrates Huge Crowds |
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EPA Awards $200,000 to the West Central Texas Council of Governments |
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APD: Alert Citizen Catches Would-Be Crook in the Act |
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Gone in 60 Seconds? Abilene Thieves Steal Cars |
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Jayton planning celebration for its 100th anniversary |
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Abilene woman convinced by young son to start toy business |
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GE wind turbine company to expand service centers
|
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Estimate: 600 homeless Veterans in Big Spring VA's area |
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HD85
GOP challenger Jim Landtroop launches first TV advert |
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09/18&19/2010 |
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Outdoor scupltors celebrate contributions to Abilene |
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Hunters show off their best at game awards |
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West Texas Fair And Rodeo Was A Huge Success |
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Texas State Technical College Teaching Wind Energy
|
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Body Found at Coleman Country Club |
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Family Day At McMurry University |
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Pat Gerald retires from Sweetwater Enterprise for Economic Development Board |
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KANSAS in concert in Abilene on Sept. 25 |
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Nolan Co. commissioners to take final vote on tax rate Monday |
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Members of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity visit
Sweetwater |
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09/17/2010 |
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August unemployment rate for the Abilene MSA = 6.7%. July's rate was 6.8%
|
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World War II veteran plans freedom rally in Brownwood |
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Man recalls World War II captivity |
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Brownwood Sees Drop in Crime in August |
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Abilene High uproots Plant in interstate showdown |
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KZQQ 1560 AM to bring back sports programming |
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Baptists address gay issue |
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Remedial courses frequent at local colleges |
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Happy 50th Birthday, Cooper High |
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Breckenridge ISD campuses went on lockdown Monday due to hoax |
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Ranger College Honors Constitution Day |
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09/16/2010 |
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DPS reports increase in crime in Abilene, Taylor County |
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Roscoe wastewater facility almost ready |
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Congressman Neugebauer on upcoming November election |
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Man charged in Brownwood with marijuana possession posts bond |
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Case filed for improper 911 calls |
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Man Attacks Woman Inside Car |
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APD: Business Burglar Busted |
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Abilene Philharmonic celebrates 60th season |
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See You At The Pole set for Sept. 22nd in Eastland |
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Judge Harger (Nolan Co. Court @ Law) recertified in Family Law by Texas
Board |
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2 Santa Anna residents
lend hand to historic depot |
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Eastland Co. Public Hearing on Tax Increase |
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09/15/2010 |
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New Improvements at Abilene Civic Center |
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Lauren Graham named Miss West Texas Fair & Rodeo Queen |
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12-Year-Old Arrested For Donut Break-In |
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Abilene Candy Co.'s future uncertain year after fire |
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Ex-NFL stars, New Horizons unite |
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Coleman Co. raises taxes
6.6% on residents |
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New Sculpture Makes It's Way to Downtown Abilene Street |
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Breckenridge Homeowner Battles with Company Over Damages |
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09/14/2010 |
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Nolan County lifts burn ban |
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Abilene's Community Action Program, a suspended non-profit, opts to disband |
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Long-Time Taylor Tax Assessor Announces Retirement |
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City of Ranger Special Meeting September 17 |
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Current and future ash regulations to be met at Tenaska
|
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Brownwood ISD still fighting beer sales at store near central office |
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Driver Slams into Building, Suffers Injuries |
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Palo Pinto County Burn Ban Lifted |
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Woman Trapped in Car in Kirby Lake
|
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Cut power lines now repaired at Taylor Co. Law Enforcement Center |
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Congressman Neugebauer hears similar voter concerns from Plainview to Ranger |
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Rules to address truancy reviewed by Abilene ISD board |
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Baseball, hot dogs, throwing 1st pitch: Meador to celebrate 18th birthday in
style at game on Tuesday |
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Texan Film Festival in
Throckmorton at the Texan Theater, October 16th |
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09/13/2010 |
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How Many Libraries Does Abilene Need?
- how about one. |
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Sweetwater Tax Rates Could Rise |
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Brownwood hotel manager arrested for alleged attack on employee |
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Huntsville bank acquired by First Financial |
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Eastland County Burn Ban Lifted |
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New Abilene ISD Attendance Policies in the Works
|
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Bus passengers stranded at Abilene Greyhound station |
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Clyde organizer may appear on A&E's 'Hoarders' |
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Eastland VIP Community Celebration |
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Neugebauer Predicts “Terrible” Impact If Bush Tax Cuts Are Not Extended |
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09/11&12/2010 |
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Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition in Abilene |
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Church group rides bicycles from Lubbock to Abilene |
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Former Abilene mayor, state rep., David Stubbeman, dies suddenly but will
leave lasting effect |
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Abilene VFW Honors the Fallen on 9-11 Remembrance,
more |
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West Texas State Fair and Rodeo Has Finally Opened |
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Abilene's Muslim Community Responds to Koran Burning Controversy |
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Folks in Gorman still are nuts about their annual festival |
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Swenson gala recalls history, former mayor |
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Expo Center: Facilities compete for events, visitors statewide,
Expo Center: A look at facilities |
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Legends Dove Hunt brings in $200,000 |
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Week of 09/05/2010 |
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Abilene PD & U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigate stolen mail
|
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Approve City of Abilene 2011 budget |
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Proposed 2011 Taylor County Budget |